• guitar
• mic
• Audient iD14 audio interface
• Bitwig DAW

A true musical hello world that wires up three independent external MIDI generators, Bitwig as the hub, two external software synths, and virtual audio return — all free and open source, zero VST plugins inside Bitwig.

1. Mythos uses agent teams — multiple subagents coordinating directly with each other on segmented pieces of one task — which is a real architectural shift from single-agent Opus 4.6, not a marginal intelligence bump
2. It hit 83.1% on CyberGym vs Opus 4.6’s 66.6%, and converts 72.4% of identified vulnerabilities into working exploits autonomously — those are the only published numbers and they’re cybersecurity-specific, not general coding.
3. Anthropic says it will be deployed “when new safeguards are in place” — there is no announced public release date, no paid tier, and the Glasswing coalition is the only access path as of yesterday’s launch.

When Brad DeLong reports that his Isaac576Bot churned out 139,000 output tokens over an eight-hour session and the bill came in at roughly eighty dollars, the number that should jump out is not the output count but the silent multiplier hiding underneath it: prompt caching. Without caching, an agent loop that re-reads the same files, the same system prompt, and the same conversation history on every turn pays full freight for every token, every time. With caching turned on, those repeated prefixes drop to ten percent of the base input price, and the eighty-dollar day quietly becomes an eight-hundred-dollar day that never happened.

The mechanics, as of April 2026, are worth understanding in concrete terms. Anthropic charges 1.25x the base input price to write a five-minute ephemeral cache entry, or 2x to write a one-hour entry, and then 0.1x to read from either. That means a five-minute cache pays for i

A first-principles counterargument to Nate B. Jones' token optimization framework — with hard pricing data from 2023-2026 showing frontier model prices are falling, subscriptions invert the economics, and the human is always more expensive than the model.

A response to Nate B. Jones — "Your Claude Limit Burns In 90 Minutes Because Of One ChatGPT Habit"

By Brian Edwards — April 2, 2026

An essay for people who have seen The Big Lebowski more times than is strictly advisable

There is a word most people have never encountered: cynology. It means the study of dogs. Not veterinary medicine, not breeding manuals, but the formal, zoological consideration of what a dog is and what a dog does. The term barely registers in English dictionaries. Trainers and breeders sometimes adopt the title "cynologist" to lend gravity to their obsession, but the academic establishment has never quite known what to do with it. Cynology occupies that uneasy territory between rigorous discipline and passionate amateurism, the kind of field that exists because someone loved the subject too much to leave it alone.

What makes the word interesting is where it comes from. Kynos. Greek for dog. The same root that gives us cynic.

First weekly epub delivered on schedule (Mar 27, 2026). Audited and fixed all 8 epubs, recovered 90 dropped articles, retagged 17 miscategorized articles, fixed 3 bugs in send-weekly.ts, submitted Twilio toll-free verification, and delivered email notifications to both subscribers. Texts pending Twilio approval (1-3 business days). Session ran ~24 hours from initial audit through delivery.

• Audited all 8 weekly epubs — zero Uncategorized sections

38 hrs in: 830 article rewrites done (561 remaining, 60% complete). 1,000+ rewrites milestone passed. Agent workers steady at ~18/hr. ~31 hrs remaining.

Started: 2026-03-26 09:32 CDT Last Updated: 2026-03-27 20:37 CDT Status: 🟢 Running (Agent workers, no GPU) Method: Claude Code Agent workers = the LLM. 3 parallel agents per 5-min loop.

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

export UV_PYTHON=3.13

uv self update

uv tool install yt-dlp
yt-dlp