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AI & AgentsHow to Use Claude Fable 5.1 in Claude Code
A practical Claude Code workflow for Fable 5.1: select the model, plan first, route implementation, verify with tools, and handle safeguard fallbacks.
AI & AgentsAnthropic Says No Open-Weights Ban. The Cost War Is Still Real.
Anthropic explicitly rejects a protectionist open-weights ban while seeking action against illicit industrial distillation. What its policy, Coinbase's first-party cost report, and EU rules actually mean for buyers.
Delivery & QAAgile De-engineering
How a movement built to liberate engineers came to erode engineering culture in the enterprise. Alexandre Kotcherguine and Kevin Riedl trace the commercialisation, ritual capture, metric inversion, and craft erosion behind it.
AI & AgentsWhat an Internal AI Assistant Actually Costs in the DACH Region (2026)
Embeddings, vector DB, tokens, hosting, and the maintenance line everyone forgets. A directional per-seat cost breakdown for a DACH internal AI assistant.
Product & MVPThe MVP Is Dead. Build a Minimum Credible Product.
AI can reduce prototype effort, not the need for product judgment. Avoidable roughness may damage the signal an MVP should collect. A practical case for less scope, one trustworthy path, and decision-grade evidence.
AI & AgentsLLM Gateways Compared 2026: LiteLLM vs OpenRouter vs Portkey vs RouteLLM
One endpoint over many providers, with fallback, caching, spend limits, and routing in one place. How LiteLLM, OpenRouter, Portkey, and RouteLLM differ, and how to choose on the constraint that binds you.
AI & AgentsSelf-Hosting LLMs in the EU: When Open Weights Actually Pay Off
The GPU is the cheap part. Here is the real cost of self-hosting open weights, a defensible break-even formula, the GDPR trade-offs, and the vLLM production stack.
AI & AgentsBest Open-Weight LLMs 2026: DeepSeek vs Qwen vs Kimi vs GLM vs Llama
DeepSeek V4, Qwen3.8, Kimi K3, GLM-5.3 and Llama 4 compared on context, license, deployment scale and EU self-hosting.
Business & RegulationAI Consulting in Austria 2026: An Honest Guide for SMEs
What AI consulting really covers, what it costs in 2026, which use cases pay off, what the EU AI Act asks today, and how funding works. An engineering view, not a sales pitch.
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