Claude vs OpenAI Data Retention: What Gets Kept
Claude and OpenAI retention compared by consumer, API, Covered Model, ZDR, safety-review, legal-hold, and local deployment paths.
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AI tool reviews and safety notes from the trenches
A hacker-native log for model economics, coding agents, deployment tradeoffs, and the claims that still hold up after the launch post.
ai@hackers:~$ ./scan current-signals
active GPT-5.6 Sol · Terra · Luna · Sonnet 5 · Opus 4.8
active GLM-5.2 · Kimi K3 · K2.7
guarded Fable 5 · restricted Mythos 5
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AI Subscription Capacity Is Perishable
Why non-rollover AI subscription limits are perishable, how Codex resets change the incentive, and how to use capacity without burning quota.
Prompt Caching: Cut AI Agent Token Costs
Learn how prompt caching changes LLM token costs, why coding agents resend context, what compaction can waste, and how to measure Codex, Claude Code, and OpenCode.
Claude Opus 5: Cost, Benchmarks, and When to Use It
Claude Opus 5 pricing, availability, effort levels, independent cost-per-task evidence, migration changes, and practical routing against Sonnet 5 and Fable.
How OpenAI's Cyber Eval Breached Hugging Face
A preliminary, source-labeled analysis of the ExploitGym eval failure, Hugging Face breach, and five controls for containing cyber agents.
Kimi K3: Benchmarks, Pricing, and Open-Weights Status
Kimi K3 is Moonshot's 2.8T flagship with 1M context, source-labeled benchmark evidence, $3/$15 API pricing, and open weights still pending until July 27, 2026.
ZCode: GLM-5.2-Native Coding Harness Guide
Use ZCode as Z.AI's integrated GLM-5.2 coding harness: desktop setup, Goal Mode, subagents, safety confirmations, quota, and workflow trade-offs.
Pi vs ZCode vs OpenCode: Which Harness Fits GLM-5.2?
Compare Pi, ZCode, and OpenCode as coding harnesses for GLM-5.2: workflow, permissions, context, setup, quota paths, and a fair same-model test.
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Side-by-side comparisons of AI models by capability, price, and use case. Budget, mid-range, premium, and provider pricing comparisons for coding IDEs and API workloads.