News3 min read
Grok 4.5: xAI's Bet That Token Efficiency Beats Raw Benchmarks
xAI shipped Grok 4.5 at $2/$6 per million tokens, undercutting Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 by more than 60%. The real story is the 4.2x token efficiency claim, not the leaderboard position.
July 16, 2026
Tech4 min read
The Honest State of AI Code Generation in 2026
Copilot, Claude, Cursor: AI code generation is genuinely useful now. But it's also genuinely overhyped in ways that set developers up for frustration. Here's an honest assessment after 18 months of daily use.
April 11, 2026