Claude Code Costs 2x Pi. Longer Tasks Don’t Fix it.
Author(s): The Dev Loop Originally published on Towards AI. Two 2026 studies disagree on coding agent cost. The turn-count crossover everyone assumes is not there. The real variable is requests per task. Two careful measurements, four months apart, disagree about which coding …
Nobody Taught LLMs to Say “I Don’t Know”
Author(s): The Dev Loop Originally published on Towards AI. Hallucination is a grading problem. Contrary to popular belief, the chatbot on your screen does not invent facts because something inside it is broken. It invents facts because we grade it, and the …
How LLM Quantization Works: INT8, INT4, GPTQ, and AWQ Explained
Author(s): The Dev Loop Originally published on Towards AI. A plain-language guide to reducing model precision: the mechanism, the accuracy trade-off, and how to choose a method. You found the perfect open-weights model. You read the benchmarks, you cloned the repo, and …