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A gold price on its own is half an answer. I built an MCP server for my Bullion API so your agent can pull in the rest: metal prices, central-bank gold, inflation, policy rates and bond yields. Ask one question, get one answer. paulund.co.uk/changelog/bull…

One of my Claude Code sessions averaged about 511k tokens per call. Auto-compaction kept cutting it back to about 85k, and it climbed straight back. That happened six times. Compaction lowers the cost, but it doesn't fix it. Here's what I changed: paulund.co.uk/notebook/ai/lo…

Gold is under $4k while countries and large central banks are still buying more.

One thing I'm trying with AI: Slowing down

App creators...don't make me use your agent in your app. I want to use my agent.

Minimax 3.1 is really thinking about this one.

I think I've just been converted to prompting with voice

With software development the main question we used to ask was, can we do this? Now with AI we can do anything we want. Now the question isn't can we do something it's should we do something or are we allowed to do something? In the UK we get tax relief for investing in startup companies it's called SEIS / EIS investments. But it's very time consuming to decide if a startup is a good investment. Over the last few weeks I've spent time building an app that will - Look on these investment platforms - Find companies that are looking for investment - Search for data about the company and directors - Built an algorithm that would take the searched data and figure out a score on if this is a good investment But the problems I have and why I could never release a product like this are I'm not FCA regulated, I can't create an app that looks like it's giving out investment advice, even if it is data lead. I also these investment platforms have terms and condition against scraping their data for me own distribution. This has now put a blocker on the project as I can't do this the way that I want. Technically it's possible but I shouldn't do it. This is an example of making sure you ask should you do something before building and don't wait until you're a few weeks into development before answering that question.

I never really took SEO that seriously until I built a tool to show me all the SEO issues. Connecting this up to MCP so my agent has access to get these issues and fix them is a game charger. Now I'm checking SEO every day.

The US has 8,100 tonnes of gold. But it hasn't been audited since the 50s so do they actually have that much? bullionapi.dev/central-bank-…

I built my first Claude Code mod. I use the CLI, but missed the desktop app's easy screenshot viewing. /image opens the latest in a zoomable herdr split. The viewer needs a terminal like Ghostty. If you use Ghostty, it might be useful :) paulund.co.uk/projects/claud…

OpenCode 2.0 is out. I had a look through the migration guide. Most existing config should carry over, but plugins need porting and the server API has changed. opencode.ai/v2/docs/migrate-…

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 is being very generous to me.

And what does this company do when that one dev leaves? AI isn't just about a single developer working faster and more consistent, it also helps the entire team. If a senior dev can brain dump their knowledge and workflows into skills it helps everyone at the entire company.

I’ve added a US dollar purchasing-power calculator to Bullion API. Choose an amount and two months to see its CPI-adjusted equivalent. It uses stored US CPI data and doesn’t estimate missing months. Try it: bullionapi.dev/tools/us-doll…