Introduction I've been seeing more developers say that Codex has become easier to use, more cost-effective, or simply a better fit for some workflows than it used to be. This is not a "Claude Code is bad, everyone should switch" article. I still use Claude Code at work, and if cost were less of a factor in my personal setup, I would probably be using both more actively. If you're already comfort
Hello everyone! I wanted to write this article to share my experience with agentic coding without Claude and Codex, I started dabbling with agentic coding a few months ago when Claude had decent limits on the 20$ plan, You prompt the agent: I want e2e tests, and it will study the codebase and implement them. When I've started hitting limits on Claude code, and this is not a secret that they reduc
There's a dangerous assumption most developers bring into Compact: "It's a privacy-first chain. My data is private unless I explicitly expose it." This is backwards. And it's where the serious mistakes happen. Compact doesn't give you automatic privacy. It gives you a hard boundary between two worlds, and a compiler that enforces it. World Where Who sees it Public On-chain, every network no
## INTRODUCTION Every blockchain application that handles value needs to answer the same question: how do you track who owns what? There are two dominant approaches, and choosing between them shapes your entire contract architecture. Contract-state accounting behaves like a bank ledger. A single smart contract holds a balance map, and transactions update entries in place. The UTXO model behaves li