6 matches across problems, recipes, configs, comparisons, and discussions.
Free tier vs metered Opus, measured on what actually shipped. Gemini's sticker price wins; the rework rate eats most of the difference. Small sample, weak conclusion.
Five days, two agents, one working Stripe billing portal: what was delegated, what broke, what it cost ($61.40 all-in), and the day everything went sideways.
Long sessions die one of two deaths: the bill or the compaction. This is the freelancer's version of token discipline — measure per task, keep the context lean on purpose, and checkpoint state to files so a fresh session costs you minutes, not the afternoon.
Eight days migrating a legacy widget suite to WidgetKit with Claude Code and XcodeBuild MCP: timeline budgets, a haunted pbxproj, and $84 of tokens.
Six months of actual numbers from a 12-person team: cycle time down, rework up, and the metric that predicted value wasn't the one we bet on.
Same 12 tasks I run on every release. Fable took 9, Opus took 2, one tie — but the interesting part isn't the score.