AI

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

Is Claude Max worth $200/month? One developer's real cost analysis

Claude Max at $200/month halves the cost of Pro and delivers 900+ Opus messages per 5-hour window. Best for power users with heavy token use.

Open source vector databases: Qdrant vs Milvus vs Weaviate

Compare Qdrant, Milvus 2.5, Weaviate, Chroma, pgvector, and LanceDB for 2026 RAG: hybrid search, latency, quantization, GPU support, and cost.

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Gemini 3.5 Flash: 76% on Terminal-Bench, 4x faster output

Gemini 3.5 Flash launched May 19, 2026 with 76.2% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and 4x faster output. See benchmarks, availability, and when Pro arrives.

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Cursor Composer 2.5 vs Composer 2: what actually changed

Cursor Composer 2.5 runs on the same Kimi K2.5 base as Composer 2 but trains on 25x more synthetic tasks. The real delta, the pricing, the limits.

Blender MCP: control Blender with Claude AI through natural language

Blender MCP wires Claude into Blender's Python API. Create geometry, apply materials, fetch assets, and generate meshes from natural-language prompts.

Claude Agent SDK: build custom AI agents without reinventing the orchestration layer

Build production AI agents with the Claude Agent SDK. Configure tools, hooks, MCP servers, and subagents to connect external services without code.