WorkBuddy + Hy4: A Practical Game-Prototyping Workflow
How to evaluate WorkBuddy and Hy4 for game prototypes across engine state, MCP actions, visual quality, testing, and clean hand-off.
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Insights on AI agents, model routing, and building production-ready AI systems.
WorkBuddy for Long-Running Projects: From Expert Routing to Verified Delivery
A practical architecture for using WorkBuddy’s specialists and project spaces on multi-step tasks without losing provenance or control.
WorkBuddy MCP Setup: Connect Tools Without Handing an Agent the Whole Machine
A practical WorkBuddy MCP guide covering user and project configuration, permissions, credentials, testing, and failure recovery.
WorkBuddy vs CodeBuddy vs Claude Code: Which AI Work Surface Fits the Job?
WorkBuddy, CodeBuddy, and Claude Code overlap, but they optimize for different work surfaces. Compare scope, tools, control, and hand-off before choosing.
Gemini 3.8 Flash Coding Costs: When Cheap Retries Pay Off
Calculate Gemini 3.8 Flash coding costs including thinking tokens, compare provider rates, and cap retries at two before escalating a failed patch.
Claude Fable 5.1: Coding, Research and API Pricing
SandBase explains Claude Fable 5.1 coding results, API IDs and cache pricing, with a worked cost example and a separate Astra comparison using actual request bills.
Why Coding Agents Forget the Goal After Dozens of Tool Calls
Why coding agents forget the goal, repeat failed fixes, and skip tests—and how to recover with a task-state record, regression checks, and a bounded restart.
Fable 5.1 Long-Running Agents: Tests, Recovery and Cost
SandBase's Fable 5.1 evaluation design: test a billing-client upgrade across two repositories, recover from tool failures, cap retries, and count accepted-task cost.
Fable 5.1 vs Mythos 5.1: Pricing, Limits and Access
SandBase compares Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 access, API pricing, fallback and retention. Learn why a Fable API account does not grant Mythos research permissions.