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Up to seven things a day for people building with AI. Fewer when there aren't seven.

  1. Anthropic promised 20x more usage. Then developers hit a weekly ceiling.

    A class-action lawsuit argues Anthropic's $100 Max 5x and $200 Max 20x subscriptions advertise usage multipliers over the $20 Pro plan without clearly disclosing a separate weekly usage cap. Anthropic added that weekly limit in late July 2025, months after Max launched in April, and argues purchase-page hyperlinks disclosed it adequately.

    The New Stack agentic coding

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  2. Fragments: September 8

    Christian Catalini says we’re in a situation where we are vastly reducing the cost of generating things, but not the cost of verifying them: . This explains why the first major AI products appeared in chat, image generation, and code assistance.

    Martin Fowler

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  3. Scaling your money safely with AI

    Ryan chats with Srini Venkatesan, CTO at PayPal, about validating AI-generated deterministic code for security, developing autonomous SDLC harnesses with iterative feedback loops, and creating a seamless headless checkout experience.

    Stack Overflow Blog

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