Cursor's pricing shakeup, OpenAI Codex internals, the famo.us postmortem, and when patterns betray you
Published on 19.03.2026
Cursor's Silent Pricing Change Drives Enterprise Churn, Claude Opus 4.6 Gets 1M Context
TLDR: Cursor quietly moved most models behind its Max mode paywall, causing enterprise credits to evaporate in days instead of lasting the month. Meanwhile, Claude Opus 4.6 shipped a 1M token context window and a Compaction API for long-running agents, and the wider AI landscape saw Spotify's internal agent merging a thousand PRs every ten days.
Cursor's Silent Pricing Change Drives Enterprise Churn, Claude Opus 4.6 Gets 1M Context
How OpenAI Codex Works
TLDR: OpenAI Codex is a cloud-based coding agent built on codex-1, a fine-tuned variant of o3. The real engineering story is not the model itself but the three-layer orchestration system: an agent loop, prompt and context management with prefix caching, and a multi-surface architecture that runs everywhere from CLI to VS Code.
The Rise and Fall of famo.us
TLDR: Famo.us was a JavaScript rendering engine from 2012 that raised $30 million by promising native-like performance through GPU-accelerated CSS 3D matrix transforms. It collapsed when browsers caught up, React won the developer mindshare war, and the API demanded too much mathematical expertise from everyday developers.
A Proxy Manager, Self-Hostable Web Dashboard for Caddy/Traefik
TLDR: Proxydeck is an open-source, MIT-licensed web dashboard for managing Caddy and Traefik reverse proxies, built with Bun and React. It offers a single-pane-of-glass interface with Docker Compose deployment and optional bundled PostgreSQL.
A Proxy Manager, Self-Hostable Web Dashboard for Caddy/Traefik
When NOT to Use the Repository Pattern in EF Core
TLDR: EF Core's DbContext already implements the repository and unit-of-work patterns. Wrapping it in another repository layer often adds complexity without value, especially in CRUD apps, small projects, performance-critical systems, and microservices. The specification pattern is a lighter alternative when you need reusable query logic.