For the last few months I’ve been building R7 Home, a smart home hub running on a Raspberry Pi 5.
Built with Cursor and Codex (Astra for the games). Videos were just an experiment with Opus 5.5 driving the real app, edited in Remotion and voiced with ElevenLabs.
My agent paid $6.14 per 1M tokens.
Now it pays $1.39. Same API prices. Same agent. Same 2,000 tickets a day. Nobody cut prices. I stopped paying full price to send the same tokens over and over. Every agent turn resends the whole conversation: system prompt, tool definitions,
Poor Opus 5, you will not be missed
I fed claude 2 years of my losing trades and gave it one rule: never trade like me
$300 → $790 → $2,140 → $5,380 → $11,760 5 days. i haven't touched a single button 847 trades. 71% of them lost money i thought i was unlucky. claude read all of them in 40 seconds and told
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