https://alexkerber.com/blog Notes on AI, agents and building products, by Alex Kerber. en Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://alexkerber.com/blog/fable-51-and-the-20x-plan https://alexkerber.com/blog/fable-51-and-the-20x-plan Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5.1 today at the same token price and a much cheaper cache. The subscription math underneath did not move, and the 50 percent boost ends in two weeks. https://alexkerber.com/blog/the-512-is-late https://alexkerber.com/blog/the-512-is-late Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Apple now sells Mac Studio on token bills and frontier-class inference. I ordered the 256GB M5 Ultra and retired the laptop. The configuration that holds GLM-5.2 properly is the one they will not take an order for. https://alexkerber.com/blog/omarchy-quattro-linux-for-agents https://alexkerber.com/blog/omarchy-quattro-linux-for-agents Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT DHH spent a year turning his Arch setup into a distro. I installed it on two machines this week. Notes on why it works and where the agent story actually lands. https://alexkerber.com/blog/grok-bot-has-a-computer https://alexkerber.com/blog/grok-bot-has-a-computer Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Making the machinery disappear is the interesting part. The trust boundary should not disappear with it. https://alexkerber.com/blog/fable-sol-cmux https://alexkerber.com/blog/fable-sol-cmux Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Claude Fable 5 in one cmux pane, GPT-5.6 Sol in another. One works, the other reviews, and I keep the final call. https://alexkerber.com/blog/cursor-ios-privacy-regression https://alexkerber.com/blog/cursor-ios-privacy-regression Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Cursor's iOS launch exposed a deeper product problem: enabling a new feature should not quietly weaken a privacy promise users already chose. https://alexkerber.com/blog/homelab-maintains-itself https://alexkerber.com/blog/homelab-maintains-itself Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Self-hosting is useful when recovery, updates and monitoring are designed in. Otherwise you bought yourself another job. https://alexkerber.com/blog/the-frontier-behind-a-velvet-rope https://alexkerber.com/blog/the-frontier-behind-a-velvet-rope Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT GPT-5.6 opened with a limited partner preview and Fable 5 disappeared after its first release. Meanwhile GLM-5.2 handles much of my daily work on the Mac Studio in the other room. https://alexkerber.com/blog/running-an-ai-agent-team-what-actually-works https://alexkerber.com/blog/running-an-ai-agent-team-what-actually-works Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT The models were not the hard part. Priorities, permissions, evidence and stopping rules were. https://alexkerber.com/blog/apple-put-ai-in-the-computer https://alexkerber.com/blog/apple-put-ai-in-the-computer Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Almost every phone already has a frontier model on it, running in someone else's data center. WWDC was Apple betting on the opposite architecture: computation that starts in the computer you bought and reaches for GPU server halls only when it has to. https://alexkerber.com/blog/running-opus-4-6-full-time https://alexkerber.com/blog/running-opus-4-6-full-time Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Three months in, Opus 4.7 happened and a free local model caught what I couldn't. Notes from the daily driver seat. https://alexkerber.com/blog/monitor-vram-usage-across-your-lan https://alexkerber.com/blog/monitor-vram-usage-across-your-lan Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT I needed to know how much VRAM my Mac Studio was using from another room. No tool showed it. So I built a widget. https://alexkerber.com/blog/anthropic-built-its-most-capable-model-then-decided-the-world-wasnt-ready https://alexkerber.com/blog/anthropic-built-its-most-capable-model-then-decided-the-world-wasnt-ready Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Claude Mythos Preview changes the economics of finding software vulnerabilities. Anthropic's decision to gate access is understandable, and still concentrates an uncomfortable amount of power. https://alexkerber.com/blog/anthropic-didnt-kill-openclaw-it-killed-the-illusion https://alexkerber.com/blog/anthropic-didnt-kill-openclaw-it-killed-the-illusion Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Anthropic made it explicit: third-party harnesses like OpenClaw no longer count against Claude subscription usage. That changes the economics, the trust and the ground AI builders stand on. https://alexkerber.com/blog/the-real-point-of-dream-is-operational-not-visual https://alexkerber.com/blog/the-real-point-of-dream-is-operational-not-visual Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Dream is my name for multimodal production inside an agent job. The useful part is carrying context through review, delivery and a passing build. https://alexkerber.com/blog/elite-ai-coding-korea-claw-code https://alexkerber.com/blog/elite-ai-coding-korea-claw-code Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Claw Code crossed 100,000 GitHub stars in a day. The record claim matters less than the engineering underneath it: verification loops, small skills and disciplined context. https://alexkerber.com/blog/claude-code-leaked-and-axios-hijacked https://alexkerber.com/blog/claude-code-leaked-and-axios-hijacked Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Anthropic shipped source maps in their npm package, exposing 500k+ lines of Claude Code. The same day, two malicious Axios releases turned a routine dependency update into remote-code execution. Two npm trust failures in one day. https://alexkerber.com/blog/anthropic-leaked-its-best-model https://alexkerber.com/blog/anthropic-leaked-its-best-model Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Before Anthropic announced Project Glasswing, an exposed draft showed how the company was thinking about capability, cybersecurity and access. https://alexkerber.com/blog/faster-to-build-than-to-find https://alexkerber.com/blog/faster-to-build-than-to-find Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT I built TermAway because no SSH client did what I needed. Weeks later, someone else shipped the same thing. https://alexkerber.com/blog/claude-cowork-changes-everything https://alexkerber.com/blog/claude-cowork-changes-everything Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Anthropic's latest Cowork update lets Claude carry work across files, apps, devices and schedules. https://alexkerber.com/blog/ai-native-design https://alexkerber.com/blog/ai-native-design Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT The hard design work is deciding when the system acts, asks and stays quiet. https://alexkerber.com/blog/openclaw-on-vps-vs-local https://alexkerber.com/blog/openclaw-on-vps-vs-local Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Most AI creators are recommending VPS setups for OpenClaw. For most people, this is the wrong approach. https://alexkerber.com/blog/the-48-hour-validation-rule https://alexkerber.com/blog/the-48-hour-validation-rule Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT If you can't get 20 people to sign up for a free waitlist in two days, you don't build it. https://alexkerber.com/blog/managing-my-ai-team-from-a-dashboard https://alexkerber.com/blog/managing-my-ai-team-from-a-dashboard Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT How the Codex app changed the way I think about AI-augmented development. https://alexkerber.com/blog/anthropic-ai-affects-learning-to-code https://alexkerber.com/blog/anthropic-ai-affects-learning-to-code Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI can help you ship faster. Anthropic's study asks what happens to the learning underneath. https://alexkerber.com/blog/the-new-junior-playbook https://alexkerber.com/blog/the-new-junior-playbook Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why the traditional career ladder is broken, and what's replacing it. https://alexkerber.com/blog/who-reviews-the-ais-code https://alexkerber.com/blog/who-reviews-the-ais-code Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT The sustainability question nobody's asking about AI-augmented development. https://alexkerber.com/blog/kerber-ai-venture-studio https://alexkerber.com/blog/kerber-ai-venture-studio Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT What began as curiosity about AI coding turned into a venture studio.