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Gemini 4 Argon costs half of Claude Opus 5.5 per token. On my 20-run production monorepo bench it passed every test in 16 runs and never broke a passing test, the best result of any model so far. It also wrote 2.8x the output tokens and cost more than Opus. On December 1 the price doubles. On vision tasks it came last.
READBoris Cherny, who built Claude Code, says engineering, product, design and data science are melting into one role, and what's left is five archetypes: Prototyper, Builder, Sweeper, Grower, Maintainer. I read the list and realised I'm all five, because building solo with agents leaves no one to hand a phase to. The framework is thirty years old. What's new is that it just became the primary axis instead of the secondary one.
READTwo weeks ago I wrote that the future of AI is CI. Then I built the factory: a live control room over 30 services, built in under ten days. Deploys show up as beads on an oscilloscope trace, an agent writes the risk brief, a second agent tries to tear it down, and I can ask Claude what is in prod from my terminal.
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