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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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OfficeCLI turns 50 lines of Python into a single command

OfficeCLI lets AI agents edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files from one binary, and renders them to HTML or PNG so the agent can check its own work.

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Dive into LLMs has 11 free chapters and no open license

The Dive into LLMs course ships 11 hands-on chapters with slides and notebooks, all in Chinese, with no license file and no update since October 2025.

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DeepSeek V4-Pro runs 39x cheaper than Claude Opus 5

DeepSeek V4-Pro pricing runs about 39x cheaper per task than Claude Opus 5 for a 10-point intelligence gap, and it ships open weights under MIT.

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Ask for a flange and CAD Skills hands you a STEP file

Text to CAD agent skills turn a plain sentence into a STEP file, with 11 skills covering CAD, DXF, URDF, slicing, and local Bambu Lab print jobs.

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Qwen3.8-Max matches Claude Opus 4.8 and might go open

Qwen3.8-Max pricing lands at $2/$6 per million tokens, matches Claude Opus 4.8 on intelligence, and promises open weights for a Max-class model.

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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.