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Claude Code System Requirements: Mac, Windows, Linux (2026)
What you need to install and run Claude Code on Mac, Windows and Linux in 2026. Anthropic's official spec, what real-world setups end up using, where the install falls over, and the practitioner gotchas the most popular tutorials don't cover.
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AI for the CFO: variable cost, vendor sprawl, and the playbook that ends the surprise bill
Uber reportedly provisioned 5,000 engineers with Claude Code in December 2025. By April 2026 it had burned the entire annual AI budget in four months. Variable cost is the new shape of the AI line item, and the CFOs who are getting it under control are running the same four-lever playbook. Here is what is on each lever, which platforms are credible, and what to ship in the next ninety days.
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A beginner's guide to Claude hooks
Claude Code hooks are small scripts that fire automatically at specific moments in a coding session. They give you deterministic control where CLAUDE.md instructions only get probabilistic compliance. This beginner's guide covers what hooks do, the five events you need to know, the exit-code gotcha that catches almost everyone, and the community projects worth installing before you write your own.
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LM Studio Setup Guide 2026: Install, First Model & Settings
Install LM Studio on Windows or Mac in under 10 minutes, download your first model, and tune the hardware settings (developer mode, GPU offload, context length, multi-GPU tensor parallelism) for the rig you've got. Updated for LM Studio 0.4.16.
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How I Cut My Claude Code Token Spend with Houtini LM (Architect, Drafter, QA)
Claude as the architect. A cheap local model as the drafter. Claude QAs everything. The token bill drops as a side-effect of using each model for what it does best. Here is how I run it on my own rig.
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The Best MCP Servers for Claude Code (2026)
The MCP servers I run in Claude Code every day. Rebuilt for the agentic-coding-as-default era - native /agents, the Desktop/Code binary merger, and the local-model offload pattern that keeps long sessions from burning your Anthropic quota.
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Getting Started with Claude: a Beginner's Guide
If you've decided to try Claude, the first hour can be confusing - there's the browser, the Desktop app, Cowork on the left sidebar, Claude Code in a tab next to it. Here's how all of that fits together and what to do first, from someone who lives in it every day.
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