Master any new AI in 7 minutes — fresh, hands-on tutorials every week.https://7minai.com/https://7minai.com/ai-write-code-slowly/https://7minai.com/ai-write-code-slowly/Nolan Lawson's HN-trending essay nails the inversion: most builders use AI to ship low-quality code fast; the better play is using it to ship high-quality code slowly. Here is his actual workflow, why the EURECOM Constraint Decay benchmark says it works, and why DeepSeek-tier pricing makes it affordable to run 4-7 sub-agents per PR.Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://7minai.com/claude-code-daily-driver/https://7minai.com/claude-code-daily-driver/Most people use Claude Code like a chat box. The five features that turn it into a daily driver — persistent CLAUDE.md memory, reusable Skills, delegated Subagents, Plugins, and MCP servers — with the exact files, commands, and gotchas for each.Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://7minai.com/claude-opus-4-8/https://7minai.com/claude-opus-4-8/Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.8 on May 28, 2026. Same price as 4.7, modest benchmark gains, but underneath are four shifts that change how you wire up agents: prompt cache minimum drops 4× from 4,096 to 1,024 tokens, fast mode drops 3× cheaper, mid-conversation system messages preserve cache, and Dynamic Workflows runs hundreds of parallel subagents for codebase-scale migrations. Here is what changes for builders.Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://7minai.com/constraint-decay-llm-coding-agents/https://7minai.com/constraint-decay-llm-coding-agents/A new EURECOM paper benchmarks GPT-5.2, Kimi K2.5, MiniMax M2.5, Qwen3-Coder-Next and others across 8 web frameworks and 4 constraint levels. Capable models lose 30 points (40% relative) when you add architecture + database + ORM rules on top of an API spec. Here is what the data actually says, and what to do about it as a builder.Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://7minai.com/cursor-composer-2-5/https://7minai.com/cursor-composer-2-5/How to use Cursor Composer 2.5 in your IDE: step-by-step setup, the real pricing (and the fast-variant trap), and how it compares to Opus 4.7 / GPT-5.5 on coding benchmarks — plus when not to switch.Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://7minai.com/deepseek-v4-pro/https://7minai.com/deepseek-v4-pro/DeepSeek made the V4 Pro 75% price discount permanent on May 22, 2026. Input is now $0.435 / 1M tokens (cache hit: $0.003625) and output $0.87 / 1M — roughly 1/2 of Claude Haiku 4.5, 1/10 of Gemini 3.5 Flash output. Here is exactly what changed, how to use it via API and Chat, the cache-hit math, and when it actually wins.Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://7minai.com/gemini-3-5-flash/https://7minai.com/gemini-3-5-flash/Google's agent-tier Gemini 3.5 Flash skips 3.2/3.3/3.4 and lands at $1.50/M in + $9/M out — 3× pricier than 3 Flash but beating 3.1 Pro on most benchmarks. The real pricing, the benchmark wins, and whether the 3× is worth it over the older Flash.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://7minai.com/gemini-3-5-flash-prompts/https://7minai.com/gemini-3-5-flash-prompts/Stop using chat prompts for an agent-tier model. 50 prompt templates for Gemini 3.5 Flash, organized by use case, designed to take advantage of the 1M context window and streamed reasoning.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://7minai.com/gemini-3-5-flash-vs-claude-haiku-4-5/https://7minai.com/gemini-3-5-flash-vs-claude-haiku-4-5/Two agent-tier models on paper, two different design philosophies. Compare context windows, pricing, native multimodality, and reasoning behavior — using only published numbers, not made-up benchmarks.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://7minai.com/gemini-omni-flash/https://7minai.com/gemini-omni-flash/Gemini Omni Flash is Google's new any-to-video model — drop in text, image, audio, video, or a sketch, get back a 10-second clip with sound. Clips are capped, the API isn't open yet, but pricing leaks at $0.10–0.30 per second. Here's how to use it and how it compares to Veo, Sora, Kling, and Runway.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://7minai.com/gemini-spark/https://7minai.com/gemini-spark/Gemini Spark is Google's first proper consumer agent — it runs 24/7 on its own Google Cloud VM, drafts emails by reading your docs, and is powered by Gemini 3.5 + the Antigravity agentic harness. Here's exactly what it does, who can use it today, and how to think about it as a builder.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://7minai.com/how-to-run-bonsai-image-4b-locally/https://7minai.com/how-to-run-bonsai-image-4b-locally/Bonsai Image 4B is a ternary/1-bit diffusion model that fits in ~1 GB and generates a 512×512 image in ~6 s on an M4 Pro — fully on-device, Apache 2.0, zero per-image cost. The exact setup, which quant to download, the one-shot CLI, and the local Studio server, all from PrismML's official demo repo.Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://7minai.com/how-to-run-gemma-4-12b-locally/https://7minai.com/how-to-run-gemma-4-12b-locally/Gemma 4 12B is Google's encoder-free open model that runs text, image, and audio on a 16GB laptop under Apache 2.0. The exact Ollama, llama.cpp/GGUF, and Transformers setup — including how to pass images and native audio — all from the official model card and Unsloth docs. Copy-paste safe.Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://7minai.com/how-to-run-nuextract-3-locally/https://7minai.com/how-to-run-nuextract-3-locally/NuExtract 3 is a 4B open-weight VLM that pulls structured JSON out of any document — invoices, receipts, contracts, PDFs — and runs on a single 16GB GPU. The exact vLLM and Transformers setup, the JSON template language, image and multi-page PDF extraction, and document-to-Markdown — all from the official model card, copy-paste safe.Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://7minai.com/how-to-speed-up-gemma-4-mtp/https://7minai.com/how-to-speed-up-gemma-4-mtp/Two free speedups for local Gemma 4 that people keep confusing. QAT cuts memory ~72%; multi-token prediction (MTP) roughly doubles decode throughput — and MTP just landed in mainline llama.cpp (merged June 7, 2026). The exact Ollama, llama.cpp, and Transformers commands, what speedup to actually expect, and which sizes are supported. Sourced from the merged PR and Google's own docs.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://7minai.com/how-to-switch-to-claude-opus-4-8/https://7minai.com/how-to-switch-to-claude-opus-4-8/Claude Opus 4.8 not showing up? It doesn't appear everywhere automatically. Here's how to enable it in Cursor, Claude Code, claude.ai, and the Anthropic API — including the stale-CLI fix when it's missing from your model picker, and the model-ID gotcha that breaks API calls.Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://7minai.com/how-to-use-gemini-3-5-flash/https://7minai.com/how-to-use-gemini-3-5-flash/Everything from your first message in the app to setting up the API for agentic workflows. We cover AI Studio, the model ID string for Cursor/Cline, and how to verify you are actually using the 3.5 engine.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://7minai.com/llms-txt-guide/https://7minai.com/llms-txt-guide/Anthropic, Vercel, Cursor, and now 7minai all have a /llms.txt file. It tells LLMs what your site is about and lists your most useful pages — and unlike robots.txt or sitemap.xml, it is markdown that humans can also read. Here is the full spec, a real example you can copy, and the 10-minute Astro implementation.Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://7minai.com/openai-anthropic-pmf/https://7minai.com/openai-anthropic-pmf/Simon Willison's May 27 post says Anthropic and OpenAI have finally reached PMF — through coding agents. The receipts: his own $1,199.79 Claude Code + $980.37 Codex monthly bill, Anthropic's projected $10.9B Q2 revenue, SpaceX's $1.25B/month contract, 25% of Uber's commits from Claude Code. Here is what builders should actually change about their stack in response.Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://7minai.com/qwen-3-6-local-coding/https://7minai.com/qwen-3-6-local-coding/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B activates just 3B params but scores 73.4% on SWE-bench Verified — and it runs on a 24GB GPU or a 32GB Mac. The exact llama.cpp setup, which quant to pick, the VRAM math, and how to wire it into a coding agent.Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://7minai.com/qwen-3-7-max/https://7minai.com/qwen-3-7-max/How to use Alibaba's Qwen3.7-Max right now: switch to it free in Qwen Chat (no signup), what it actually outputs on a real coding task, the 1,000-tool-call / 35-hour agentic claims, the pricing, and when to pick it over Claude Opus 4.7 or GPT-5.Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://7minai.com/reasonix-deepseek-coding-agent/https://7minai.com/reasonix-deepseek-coding-agent/Reasonix is an MIT-licensed terminal AI coding agent engineered around DeepSeek's prefix cache. The author published a real benchmark — 435M input tokens in a day at 99.82% cache hit, costing $12 instead of $61. Here is what it is, how to install it in 2 minutes, and how it compares to Claude Code / Cursor / Aider.Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT