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Claude Code, Claude Cowork, Claude Design, what tokens actually cost you, and what each new model changes. Sourced, dated, and free of the breathless stuff.

Models

Claude Opus 5: What Changed for Your Work

Opus 5 keeps Opus 4.8 pricing, turns thinking on by default and makes effort the dial. The breaking change and the max_tokens trap to check before you switch.

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Models

Claude Sonnet 5: The Price Cut That Is Not

Sonnet 5 launched with introductory pricing and a new tokenizer that counts about 30% more tokens for the same text. Do the arithmetic before 31 August.

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Research

What the METR Studies Actually Found About AI Coding Productivity

Developers believed AI made them 20% faster and were measured 19% slower. What the 2025 and 2026 METR studies found, and what closed the gap.

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Research

Why So Many People Hide Their AI Use At Work

A 2025 US survey found nearly half of employees who use AI at work hide or downplay it. Why that happens, and what it costs a team.

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Research

Why Claude Code Is Rated the Most-Loved AI Coding Tool

Claude Code topped the Pragmatic Engineer survey of 906 engineers. What separates the people getting that result from everyone else.

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Research

The Claude Cowork and Claude Code Education Pack

Every free Anthropic course and exam for Claude Cowork and Claude Code, plus the best community guides, curated into one followable path.

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Models

Claude Mythos 5: The Model You Cannot Buy

Mythos 5 is Fable 5 with some safeguards lifted, released through Project Glasswing to approved organisations. What that separation means for your planning.

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Models

Claude Fable 5: What It Is and What It Costs

A Mythos-class model made safe for general use, at $10 and $50 per million tokens. What the price buys, how the safeguards behave, and when to reach for it.

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Getting started

Your First 30 Days With Claude at Work

A month-long plan for getting Claude into a working week: which three tasks to pick, the criteria that make a task suitable, and what good looks like on day 30.

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Claude Design

Claude Design: Prompt to Prototype, Honestly

What Claude Design makes, where the export list says it belongs in your process, the handoff bundle that is the real unlock, and the limits Anthropic admits to.

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Plans and pricing

Claude Pro vs Max: Is $100 or $200 Worth It?

What the 5x and 20x usage multipliers really mean, the rule that beats guessing which tier you need, and how to price your own overflow before you upgrade.

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Tokens and usage

Why Claude Burns Through Tokens So Fast

The seven things Anthropic says drive usage, which one is the real multiplier, and the changes that cut consumption without changing what you get back.

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Models

Claude Haiku 4.5: When the Small Model Wins

Haiku 4.5 costs $1 and $5 per million tokens and runs at more than twice the speed of Sonnet 4. Where that trade pays off, and the two limits to plan around.

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Tokens and usage

How Claude Tokens and the Context Window Work

Tokens, context windows, usage limits and length limits are four different things. What each one controls, and the caching lever most people never pull.

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Claude Code

How to Learn Claude Code in a Fortnight

A two-week order for learning Claude Code: which repo to start on, why the first three days are read-only, what belongs in CLAUDE.md, and where your usage goes.

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Claude Cowork

Claude Chat vs Cowork: Which to Use

Chat is not being retired, but serious work is leaving it. The copy-paste tax, what long threads cost you, and a simple test for which tool a job belongs in.

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Claude Cowork

What Is Claude Cowork?

Claude Cowork runs multi-step work on your own files and hands back a finished deliverable. What it is, what changes about how you brief it, and who it suits.

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