AI

Hands-on guides to LLMs, agents, prompt engineering, and the AI tools Botmonster runs every day for real work, not demos.

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Grok 4.6 undercuts Claude and GPT and still keeps pace

Grok 4.6 pricing lands at $2/$6 per million tokens and ties GPT-5.6 Sol on intelligence while undercutting Claude Opus 5 by about 2.4x per task.

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Can Kronos really forecast the next 24 hours of Bitcoin?

The Kronos financial forecasting model predicts candlesticks from 45 exchanges, but its largest 499M variant stays closed and the repo has gone quiet.

This $1,500 quiet desktop runs 70B models at 35 dBA

A parts list and guide for a silent desktop running 70B LLMs, Stable Diffusion XL, and Whisper. Components, noise tuning, and GPU benchmarks.

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StoryScope detects AI fiction that reads perfectly human

AI fiction detection no longer needs style cues. StoryScope reads plot, time and theme to flag AI stories at 93.2% accuracy across 61,608 texts.

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Awesome Claude Skills has 1,001 unmerged pull requests

The Awesome Claude Skills list promises 1000+ skills and links 164. Its queue holds 1,001 open pull requests against 38 merges, and 78 links are dead.

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code-review-graph trims 82x tokens on a typical repo

code-review-graph MCP token reduction is about 82x on a median repo. The 528x figure is one repository's best case, and the project says so.