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Claude Fable 5.2: When the Strongest Model Is Worth It
Claude Fable 5.2 set a benchmark record, but the effort dial matters more than the model name. Which model and effort I would use for each task.
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Adobe Commerce & Magento 2, the developer career, and AI — from 15+ years in the trenches.
I’m Tiago Sampaio, and I’ve been writing here since 2012. Three branches, one log. Choose where you want to start.
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Adobe Commerce and Magento 2 fixes, internals and patterns you can use on Monday.
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Green is AI. Light blue is the technical work: Magento 2, Adobe Commerce, PHP and the tooling around them. Violet is the career and mindset writing. Newest at the top.
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Claude Fable 5.2: When the Strongest Model Is Worth It
Claude Fable 5.2 set a benchmark record, but the effort dial matters more than the model name. Which model and effort I would use for each task.
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Why Portuguese Costs More Tokens Than English (and Why the Gap Is Shrinking)
Same message, two languages: I counted the tokens. Why Portuguese costs more in AI, why removing accents doesn’t help, and how the new tokenizer cut the gap.
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The Invisible Bugs AI Finally Finds (A Real Magento Case)
Six months of empty Magento categories, solved in one afternoon with Claude Code. How AI finds the invisible bugs your team learned to live with.
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What Is a Token? How Claude and ChatGPT Read, Count and Charge for Your Text
Tokens explained by an engineer: how BPE splits text, why Portuguese costs more, and how Claude and ChatGPT count and charge for tokens.
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Developer Jobs Are Dying? This Remote Adobe Commerce Role Is Posted at Up to $215,000
A remote Adobe Commerce architect role is posted at USD 150,000–215,000 a year. What the market still pays for, and how to track these roles.
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Claude Ultra Drops the 5-Hour Limit. The Weekly Limit Is Still Your Budget.
Anthropic renamed Max 20x to Ultra and removed the five-hour limit for verified accounts. The weekly limit stays. Here is how to choose a plan.
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How to Fix: “There has been an error processing your request” in Magento 2
Seeing ‘There has been an error processing your request’ in Magento 2? Use the error log record number to find the real error in minutes.
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How to Fix: “Area code is not set” in Magento 2
Getting ‘Area code is not set’ in Magento 2 or Adobe Commerce? See why it happens in CLI commands, patches and scripts, and 4 ways to fix it.
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Livraria Saraiva on Magento: the project that changed my career
How Livraria Saraiva, a Brazilian bookseller since 1914, moved to Magento in seven months and reached the main stage of Magento Imagine 2015.
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A Curated List of Developer Jobs, on My Blog
A curated list of developer roles: Magento & Adobe Commerce, e-commerce engineering and general IT, with filters for where you can apply from.
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Hi, I’m Tiago.
I’m a senior developer focused on Adobe Commerce and Magento 2. My 15+ years building software taught me that the code and the career grow together, so I write on both branches. If you need help with a Magento project, or just want to talk shop, my inbox is open.
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