Local Hybrid Search: Retrieval Without a RAG Pipeline
Two weeks ago I wrote about what changes when you keep the model fixed and swap the harness. The short version: the wrapper matters more than people assume.
Two weeks ago I wrote about what changes when you keep the model fixed and swap the harness. The short version: the wrapper matters more than people assume.
I ran the same coding task through four AI coding tools this week - opencode, Pi, GitHub Copilot in VS Code, and Claude Code - all driven by the same local
Update June 2026. I wrote this in March. Three months and several studies later, the thesis has held up but sharpened. Rather than writing a second article, I
One line of YAML. That was it. 1model: sonnet This single line in an agent's frontmatter reduced our per-run costs for one of the most-used agents in our
If you've used Claude Code for more than a day, you know the drill. Every Bash command, every file write outside the working directory, every network call --
The current debate around Claude Code and Open Code is mostly told as a pricing dispute: Anthropic locked third-party apps out of the subsidized subscription