<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Hasan Arief · LLM research notes</title><description>Agentic coding, open-weight LLMs, benchmarks, deployment costs.</description><link>https://notes.hasanarief.dev/</link><item><title>1M-context Opus on the $200 Max plan: what is included and what is capped</title><link>https://notes.hasanarief.dev/notes/max-plan-1m-context-value/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://notes.hasanarief.dev/notes/max-plan-1m-context-value/</guid><description>The $200 Max plan is not unlimited, Anthropic says so plainly. Yet 1M-context Opus is included, and at six concurrent agents I have yet to hit a cap.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Steering agents from my phone: a terminal stack vs Claude Code Remote Control</title><link>https://notes.hasanarief.dev/notes/mobile-agent-steering-vs-remote-control/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://notes.hasanarief.dev/notes/mobile-agent-steering-vs-remote-control/</guid><description>Tailscale, tmux, mosh, and a mobile terminal let me steer long agent runs from my phone. Why that plain stack still outperforms Remote Control for me, for now.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>tmux as a transparent orchestrator for long agent sessions</title><link>https://notes.hasanarief.dev/notes/tmux-agent-orchestration/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://notes.hasanarief.dev/notes/tmux-agent-orchestration/</guid><description>Why a plain terminal multiplexer beats bespoke agent frameworks for long generation runs, and five tmux practices each learned from a real failure.</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>When skipping Claude Code permission prompts is safe, and when it is not</title><link>https://notes.hasanarief.dev/notes/skipping-permission-prompts-safely/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://notes.hasanarief.dev/notes/skipping-permission-prompts-safely/</guid><description>Claude Code users approve 93% of permission prompts, so manual mode and bypass converge. What prevents catastrophe is the environment I run in, not the flag.</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Karpathy&apos;s LLM wiki: a knowledge base your coding agent maintains</title><link>https://notes.hasanarief.dev/guides/llm-wiki-knowledge-base/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://notes.hasanarief.dev/guides/llm-wiki-knowledge-base/</guid><description>Karpathy&apos;s LLM wiki: point a coding agent at a markdown folder and let it maintain the knowledge base. What it is, why it earns its place, and how to set it up.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The AI capex bubble, and what I am building while it lasts</title><link>https://notes.hasanarief.dev/notes/ai-bubble-good-thing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://notes.hasanarief.dev/notes/ai-bubble-good-thing/</guid><description>Trillions committed, Nvidia the most valuable company ever, and the measured productivity gains are tiny. Notes on using the overbuild and surviving the crash.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Karpathy&apos;s autoresearch, and its loop for parameter optimization</title><link>https://notes.hasanarief.dev/notes/autoresearch-parameter-optimization/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://notes.hasanarief.dev/notes/autoresearch-parameter-optimization/</guid><description>Karpathy&apos;s autoresearch runs an AI agent in a keep-or-discard loop. I examined its techniques, then applied the loop to parameter search where a grid stalls.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Codex cloud vs Codex CLI: which surface for which work</title><link>https://notes.hasanarief.dev/notes/codex-cloud-vs-cli/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://notes.hasanarief.dev/notes/codex-cloud-vs-cli/</guid><description>Where OpenAI Codex cloud tasks actually run, what the CLI keeps that cloud cannot, and a decision split for routing work between them.</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How Codex CLI discovers skills: the .agents filesystem layout</title><link>https://notes.hasanarief.dev/notes/codex-skills-discovery/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://notes.hasanarief.dev/notes/codex-skills-discovery/</guid><description>Where OpenAI Codex looks for skills on disk, in what order, how SKILL.md files load, and how the same format ports between coding agents.</description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Claude Code in 2026: the agentic loop, capabilities, and architecture</title><link>https://notes.hasanarief.dev/guides/claude-code-reference/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://notes.hasanarief.dev/guides/claude-code-reference/</guid><description>A maintained third-party reference to Claude Code: the agentic loop, built-in tools, context window behavior, environments, safety model, and extension layer.</description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fable 5 versus Opus 4.8 with /goal: pricing and persistence compared</title><link>https://notes.hasanarief.dev/notes/fable-5-vs-opus-48-goal-loop/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://notes.hasanarief.dev/notes/fable-5-vs-opus-48-goal-loop/</guid><description>Fable 5 returned at double the price of Opus 4.8, with days-long autonomy as the headline capability. A comparison with Claude Code&apos;s /goal loop, sourced.</description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Open-weight LLMs for coding in 2026: hardware and real costs</title><link>https://notes.hasanarief.dev/guides/open-weight-llms-for-coding/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://notes.hasanarief.dev/guides/open-weight-llms-for-coding/</guid><description>Open-weight coding LLMs as of July 2026, GLM-5.2, Kimi K2.7, DeepSeek-V4, with the VRAM math, GPU rental prices, and when self-hosting beats an API.</description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>OpenAI Codex in 2026: capabilities, surfaces, and how it works</title><link>https://notes.hasanarief.dev/guides/openai-codex-reference/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://notes.hasanarief.dev/guides/openai-codex-reference/</guid><description>A maintained third-party reference to OpenAI Codex: the CLI, IDE, cloud and app surfaces, AGENTS.md configuration, skills, MCP support, plans and access.</description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Setting up Claude Code in 2026: install, CLAUDE.md, skills, hooks, memory</title><link>https://notes.hasanarief.dev/guides/claude-code-setup/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://notes.hasanarief.dev/guides/claude-code-setup/</guid><description>Practical Claude Code setup for 2026: install on Mac, Linux or Windows, authenticate, run /init, add skills and hooks, and stay safe with git.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Agent orchestration patterns in 2026: subagents, teams, and pipelines</title><link>https://notes.hasanarief.dev/guides/agent-orchestration-patterns/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://notes.hasanarief.dev/guides/agent-orchestration-patterns/</guid><description>A map of agent orchestration in 2026: five coordination levels from a single session to agent teams, with failure modes and selection criteria.</description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Codex CLI vs Claude Code: what I learned running both daily</title><link>https://notes.hasanarief.dev/guides/codex-cli-vs-claude-code/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://notes.hasanarief.dev/guides/codex-cli-vs-claude-code/</guid><description>An honest Codex CLI vs Claude Code comparison from running both daily on one codebase: strengths, config interop, and the two-model workflow that emerged.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md best practices: one instruction file for every coding agent</title><link>https://notes.hasanarief.dev/guides/agents-md-best-practices/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://notes.hasanarief.dev/guides/agents-md-best-practices/</guid><description>How to write AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md files: what to include, the 200-line size target, monorepo precedence, imports, and one-source-of-truth setup.</description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Agentic coding best practices: what works in 2026</title><link>https://notes.hasanarief.dev/guides/agentic-coding-best-practices/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://notes.hasanarief.dev/guides/agentic-coding-best-practices/</guid><description>Field-tested agentic coding best practices from daily Claude Code and Codex work: verification loops, context discipline, hooks, and review gates.</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The two MCP servers I use daily</title><link>https://notes.hasanarief.dev/notes/mcp-servers-i-use-daily/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://notes.hasanarief.dev/notes/mcp-servers-i-use-daily/</guid><description>Two MCP servers remain in my daily agentic coding configuration: Playwright MCP and mobile-mcp. Notes on the selection rule that filters the rest.</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why this notebook exists</title><link>https://notes.hasanarief.dev/notes/why-this-notebook-exists/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://notes.hasanarief.dev/notes/why-this-notebook-exists/</guid><description>Opening note: what I research, why these notes are public, and the rules this site follows, dated entries, sourced numbers, no sponsors.</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>