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TypeSafe launched Jev, an AI model that doesn't generate text: it answers closed questions about a piece of text in a tenth of a second, for a fraction of the price. What it is, how to use it, where it fails, and how to try it.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5: cheaper, faster, and with three new restrictions. What it does to the bill for a real session, when fast mode is worth it, who it breaks things for, and how to test it on your repo.
A coding agent can burn half its tokens on a log or a JSON blob that never needed to be sent whole. Headroom is a free tool that compresses that before it reaches the model, without changing the answer, and without sending your code anywhere to do it.
What you actually pay for when using a language model to write code, why the bill almost never comes from the model you picked, and the practices that cut spending most without lowering the quality of the result.
