Dan Mercede (@danmercede)

I Read All 471 of My Claude Code Sessions: Where 6 Billion Tokens Actually Went

On October 21, 2026, a post on X asking what was going on with Claude Code usage took off. The author said they had never run out of usage like this on any model, and that it was "draining 5x faster."

Oct 23 · 13 min readdanmercede.hashnode.dev

Quality video on local hardware: the Elsewhere Unfolds workflow

Local models can produce beautiful shots. A finished film needs more: a world that stays coherent, movement that feels intentional, music that holds together, and an edit worth watching. This is the p

Oct 14 · 19 min readdanmercede.hashnode.dev

A browser pool for agents that stop taking each other's tabs

Originally published at danmercede.com. Two agents can have separate conversations and still be fighting over the same browser. One navigates away while the other is filling a form. A tab changes iden

Oct 12 · 12 min readdanmercede.hashnode.dev

How My OpenAI Dot Starts Real Claude Code Sessions on My PC

Orion is my OpenAI Dot: an always-on agent I message from ChatGPT. It lives in the Codex desktop app on my Windows PC, which lets it run commands there. Claude Code is where my engineering runs. I wan

Oct 8 · 13 min readdanmercede.hashnode.dev

How I Have Claude Code Control Grok Bot (There Is No API)

Grok Bot is xAI's desktop app for AI "bots": named teammates that share one persistent Linux computer in the cloud, with a browser, a terminal, and your logins, and that keep working after you close t

Oct 8 · 19 min readdanmercede.hashnode.dev

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I Read All 471 of My Claude Code Sessions: Where 6 Billion Tokens Actually Went

Quality video on local hardware: the Elsewhere Unfolds workflow

A browser pool for agents that stop taking each other's tabs

How My OpenAI Dot Starts Real Claude Code Sessions on My PC

How I Have Claude Code Control Grok Bot (There Is No API)

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I Read All 471 of My Claude Code Sessions: Where 6 Billion Tokens Actually Went

Quality video on local hardware: the Elsewhere Unfolds workflow

A browser pool for agents that stop taking each other's tabs

How My OpenAI Dot Starts Real Claude Code Sessions on My PC

How I Have Claude Code Control Grok Bot (There Is No API)

Dan Mercede

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Dan Mercede's blogs

I Read All 471 of My Claude Code Sessions: Where 6 Billion Tokens Actually Went

Quality video on local hardware: the Elsewhere Unfolds workflow

A browser pool for agents that stop taking each other's tabs

How My OpenAI Dot Starts Real Claude Code Sessions on My PC

How I Have Claude Code Control Grok Bot (There Is No API)

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Dan Mercede's blogs

I Read All 471 of My Claude Code Sessions: Where 6 Billion Tokens Actually Went

Quality video on local hardware: the Elsewhere Unfolds workflow

A browser pool for agents that stop taking each other's tabs

How My OpenAI Dot Starts Real Claude Code Sessions on My PC

How I Have Claude Code Control Grok Bot (There Is No API)