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Let's get the verdict out of the way: in September 2026, I'm Team Claude. Not because Anthropic is innocent. On September 14 it cut your weekly quota and dressed it up as a boost; the math is below. But on September 22 it shipped Opus 5.5: cheaper, a bigger quota, and still the t…
Read more →The official patch title for September 23 reads "Ship and Barter Convenience Improvements." Sounds big. In practice it does one thing: it makes you get off the ship less often. That one thing already makes a real difference if you barter. Before, every island meant jumping off th…
Read more →Correction, 2026-09-27 : The first draft of this article got two things wrong. I said the permit (5 billion silver) and trading 2 Essence for the blueprint were alternatives — they're not, you need both , and each piece takes 10 blueprints. I also said the official patch notes di…
Read more →I know plenty of people who write great code and then fall apart the moment they walk into a kitchen. The problem was never that they're bad at this. The problem is that recipes have been lying to them. A recipe is the worst piece of technical documentation you will ever read. No…
Read more →On August 19, Moderna and Merck announced that intismeran autogene had hit its primary and key secondary endpoints in the INTerpath-001 Phase 3 melanoma trial (1,137 patients), the first-ever positive Phase 3 result for a personalized mRNA cancer therapy ( Merck press release, 20…
Read more →Update 2026-09-06 : Another patch landed August 27, adding the top-tier yellow ship gear, Falasi. Nothing here got overturned: for bartering it's still Advance, and you still want Chiro maxed to +10 first. One thing did change: a +10 Chiro piece is now a crafting material for Fal…
Read more →September update : Both Claude's and Codex's quotas changed in September, and Opus 5.5 shipped too. For the latest, see: Claude vs. Codex Quota War (September 2026) . On August 16, a user on Reddit's r/codex reported that their weekly Codex quota had been cut roughly in half over…
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