Quick Links for Devs: Week 27, 2026
Tokenmaxxing was deliberate, Claude Sonnet 5 narrows the Opus gap, Tyler Cowen on who wins and loses, AI diagnosis vs fixes, and Qwen 3.6 makes local dev practical
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Tokenmaxxing was deliberate, Claude Sonnet 5 narrows the Opus gap, Tyler Cowen on who wins and loses, AI diagnosis vs fixes, and Qwen 3.6 makes local dev practical
Adding self-hosted Mem0 memory to Hermes Agent with pgvector and Ollama, plus the footguns I hit along the way
A walkthrough of setting up Nous Research's Hermes Agent on a Hetzner CX23 box — OpenRouter, Telegram gateway, Obsidian sync, cron jobs, and the skills that make it feel like home
GPT-5.6 lands with a government gate, open-weight models undercut frontier labs by 50x, why even the rich won't survive AI, and why your font-family stack is probably wrong
Saying goodbye to Tailwind, a 7-line programming language and TanStack plays compromise bingo
The silent information we pass on the net, a history of vi, and just use Go man
Github's demise, the societal effects of AI, and how we process the rich sludge that powers the globe
Claude degrades, don't outsource your thinking, and a lovely bit of concrete
Programming still sucks, OS rocks, Claude loses some lustre
The perils of laziness lost, Mythos or myth, and can you put OS X on a Wii?