AI

A CPU VPS dedicated to the agent, reachable only over a private network, a separate production machine and GPUs rented by the hour: the state of play on 31 October 2026, from isolation to secrets and costs.

The lever is no longer the prompt but the context: what goes in, when, and what is handed to mechanisms that do not depend on the model. My method, revised as of 29 October 2026.

A fast-coding agent doesn’t replace method. How I work with Claude Code: context as the scarce resource, verification as the one non-negotiable step.