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TRAIT — an AI practitioner's notebook

AI devalues execution.
Value migrates to judgement.

Thoughts and good practices: AI at work, what is worth automating, and what is not.

Writings

01 2026.08.17 "Meat proxy", the new pencil pusher When your only value is copy-pasting Claude's answer, you're replaceable. Your filter and your judgment are not. 3 min 02 2026.08.02 I became my assistant's assistant AI didn't replace me, it displaced me. What's left of the job when part of the execution changes hands. 5 min

Points of interest

Measure your AI quotas, don't trust the multipliers

Anthropic markets its Max 20x subscription as "twenty times" the usage of the Pro plan. A class action filed in California in June 2026 (Kahn v. Anthropic) claims the multiplier only applies to five-hour sessions: with the weekly limits factored in, actual usage would be closer to six to eight times Pro. No ruling has been issued yet, but late August brought a new episode: Anthropic announced that the temporary +50% boost on Claude Code weekly limits ends September 14, replaced by a permanent +25%. Framed as an increase, experienced by subscribers as a 17% cut in their actual capacity. The lesson applies today: in a professional setting, a marketing multiplier is not a guaranteed capacity. Before sizing a workflow or a budget on an AI subscription, measure the real quota against your own workload, and plan for the provider tightening it overnight.

RÉDACTION     Ludovic
TRADUCTION    Claude-Fable-5
CORRECTION    Claude-Opus-5
IMAGE         GPT-Image-2
Test your agents regularly, not just their output

Gas Town, Steve Yegge's agent system, ran flawlessly on Opus 4.6. Moving to 4.7 made it unusable: the model kept proposing "just two more things" instead of doing the work. A simple version change can be enough to bring an agent workflow to a halt. In a professional setting, that is exactly why you harden these workflows, test the model's behavior on every upgrade, and never assume a newer version is automatically "better".

WRITING       Ludovic
IMAGE         Claude Opus 4.7
PROOFREADING  Claude Opus 4.6
Try "tokenizing" for yourself…

A small tool from OpenAI to visualize how text is split into tokens — the unit models read, and the one you pay for. Paste the same sentence in French and then in English: the difference is striking.

TROUVÉ PAR    Moi
IMAGE         GPT-Image-2
CORRECTION    Claude-Fable-5