GPT-6.1 Sol's First Hard Test: A Clean Merge, Too Little Scope Discipline
Sol 6.1 resolves a merge with 12 conflicting files cleanly, Opus 5.5 reviews. Then it spends two hours fixing failures outside its task.
Martin Rau ·
KI-Modelle
Konkrete KI-Modelle und Modellfamilien im Überblick — wer sie entwickelt, wie sie sich in Reasoning, Coding, Multimodalität und Preis unterscheiden und wofür die einzelnen Linien im Alltag am besten taugen. Gegliedert nach Anbieter-Familien (GPT, Claude, Gemini …) und übergreifenden Einsatzzwecken wie Security, Bild & Video oder Open-Weight.
GPT-6.1 Sol: Faster, Smarter, More Reliable — My First Impression
I wired GPT-6.1 Sol into boostN right after release. Early tasks run reliably. My first take, with a comparison chart. Detailed tests still running.
Martin Rau ·
Astra Blocked My Security Request — Now I'm Verified for Daybreak
First Astra blocked my cybersecurity request. The hint led me to Trusted Access, identity verification and into OpenAI's Daybreak program.
Martin Rau ·
GPT-6 Astra Found Questions My First Security Review Missed
I used GPT-6 Astra and Fable 5.1 as independent reviewers for RLS, API and tenant-isolation checks. The useful part was the structured cross-review.
Martin Rau ·
AI in Review — August 2026: A Price U-Turn, the Open-Weight Wave and an Enforceable EU AI Act
August 2026 in AI: Sonnet 5 price freeze, Qwen3.8-Max, the open-weight wave, Google AI Mode on Gemini Flash and the enforceable EU AI Act — sorted out.
Martin Rau ·
AI Recap July 2026: Two Anthropic Models, a Government Review and the Open-Weight Pressure
July 2026 in AI: Sonnet 5 and Opus 5 from Anthropic, GPT-5.6 after a US review, Kimi K3 as open weights, and new GEO controls in Search Console.
Martin Rau ·
Three Days with Claude Fable 5 — and Why Opus Stays My Daily Driver
Fable 5 fixed a bug in one shot that Opus failed at twice. I'm still not switching. My honest impressions from the trenches after three days.
Martin Rau ·
Headless without an API bill — how do you reach the best AI models for automation in 2026?
Provider comparison mid-2026: who has a headless mode, whose subscription still covers it — and why BYOK is the most stable foundation.
Redaktion ·
Better speech recognition in boostN-CLI: Audio normalization + a flexible Whisper model
Why dictated text got swallowed, how SoX normalization and a model switcher fixed it — and what is actually happening under the hood.
Martin Rau ·
98.64 % uptime? It felt like I was blocked 44 % of the time.
Anthropic's status board shows 98.64 % uptime. The per-day stripes tell a different story — and it's the one that matters for your work.
Martin Rau ·
Usage-based instead of flat-rate: The AI cost turn was predictable — and here is how to absorb it
AI providers are pushing flat rates toward metered billing. Why it had to happen, what it costs and three levers that soften the shift.
Martin Rau ·
Prompt Caching in practice: from €280 to €47 per month
Real numbers from a customer setup with Claude Sonnet. What prompt caching delivers, when it pays off — and where the pitfalls are.
Martin Rau ·
Claude Code: How to enable Fast Mode for Opus 4.6 — and what it costs
Fast Mode for Opus 4.6 is now extra-usage only. Here's how to enable it — and what it really costs you.
Redaktion ·
Opus 4.7 hasn't reached the quality level of 4.6 yet — our recommendations
What we see after several weeks on Opus 4.7 in practice — token appetite, overachieving, and concrete levers to push back.
Redaktion ·