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Route Your AI Across a Dozen Models, and Pay Less for Better Answers

Route Your AI Across a Dozen Models, and Pay Less for Better Answers

Everyone wants to know which AI model is best. By May 2026 the question itself changed: the lead rotates every few weeks, and the cheapest capable models are now open-weight and Chinese. This PRO deep dive is a working playbook for routing instead, matching the right model to each job, then sending the rest through one small open-source gateway you run yourself. It also shows how to use DeepSeek-class models without shipping a single prompt to a server in China.

By Marcus Schuler · 26 min read ·
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Zed and Warp Both Ship AI Coding. They Bet on Opposite Surfaces.
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Zed and Warp Both Ship AI Coding. They Bet on Opposite Surfaces.

Zed and Warp both ship AI coding, but they bet on opposite surfaces. Zed is an editor-first, open-source AI code editor built in Rust, with Tree-sitter and LSP depth, ACP and MCP external agents, and a local-first BYOK privacy posture. Warp is a terminal-born agentic development environment that orchestrates local and cloud agents through its Oz platform, metered by credits. The guide compares them on editing, AI model, collaboration, pricing, privacy, and licensing.

Marcus Schuler · 14 min read ·
Repo Radar: 5 GitHub Projects Worth Your Week
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Repo Radar: 5 GitHub Projects Worth Your Week

Repo Radar tracks five GitHub projects pulling AI onto hardware teams control: openhuman, a Rust personal agent with on-device inference; LEANN, a private retrieval index that runs on a laptop; supertonic, on-device speech across 31 languages; archestra, a governance plane for company MCP servers; and NVIDIA's video-search-and-summarization blueprint for self-hosted vision agents. Stars, license, push date, and a difficulty score for each.

Marcus Schuler · 11 min read ·
TypeWhisper Founder Built His Dictation App After a Stroke
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TypeWhisper Founder Built His Dictation App After a Stroke

Marco Hillger built TypeWhisper after a stroke three years ago left him unable to type for sustained periods. The open-source app now earns about 2,000 euros a month while staying free under GPLv3, and it lets users pick their own speech engines and cleanup models.

Marcus Schuler · 9 min read ·
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Hermes Agent Installs in One Command. The Hard Part Is Deciding What It Can Touch.

Hermes Agent is not another chatbot wrapper. It is a server-side personal agent with memory, skills, tools, cron jobs, and chat channels. Here is how it works, what hardware it needs, where OpenClaw differs, and how to test it without over-permissioning it.

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Four GitHub Tools That Stop Claude, Codex, and Gemini From Shipping Bad Code

Four open-source tools fix four different failure modes in terminal AI. Superpowers teaches the agent how to work. Context7 feeds it current docs. Serena gives it IDE-grade code navigation. ccusage tells you what the other three cost. Here is how to install them and the commands that actually matter

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DeepSeek Just Froze AI Prices at a Level Western Labs Cannot Match
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DeepSeek Just Froze AI Prices at a Level Western Labs Cannot Match

DeepSeek removed the strikethroughs from its V4 Pro pricing page Saturday. The 75 percent discount is now permanent. Output tokens cost $0.87 per million — 34.5 times less than GPT-5.5. The gap runs on Huawei chips and widens with every Ascend 950 that ships.

On Saturday, DeepSeek removed the strikethroughs from its V4 Pro pricing page and made a 75 percent discount permanent. Output tokens now cost $0.87 per million, 34.5 times less than GPT-5.5. The gap runs on Huawei chips. It widens with every Ascend 950 that ships. Western labs cannot match the price without breaking the revenue models their valuations depend on. Enterprise buyers just got a new benchmark — and a geopolitical dilemma that no per-token price can resolve.

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