Articles Tagged "Developer Tools"

Claude Code Silently Burns 40% More Tokens Since v2.1.100

Claude Code Silently Burns 40% More Tokens Since v2.1.100

A developer used an HTTP proxy to capture full API requests across four Claude Code versions and found that v2.1.100 adds roughly 20,000 invisible server-side tokens to every request - inflating billing by 40% with no user visibility.

llama.cpp Lands Three Audio Models in 48 Hours

llama.cpp Lands Three Audio Models in 48 Hours

Three separate PRs merged into llama.cpp between April 11-13 add MERaLiON-2, Gemma 4's Conformer encoder, and Qwen3-Omni/ASR - making local voice AI inference practical on consumer hardware for the first time.

Inside GitHub's Fake Star Economy

Inside GitHub's Fake Star Economy

Six million fake stars, $0.06 per click, and a VC funding pipeline that treats GitHub popularity as proof of traction. We ran our own analysis on 20 repos and found the fingerprints.