Which AI model should you use? A November 2026 field guide
The current models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek and the open-weight labs, what they cost, how they score on independent benchmarks, and how to pick one.
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Coding agents, model choices and putting AI to work without the hype.
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A practical workflow for Claude Code: a short CLAUDE.md, planning before editing, a clean context per task, hooks for the rules that must hold, and checks it can run itself.
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