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AI tools, minus the hype.
Hands-on guides and honest comparisons of AI tools, from someone who uses them every day. No press-release rewrites, no top-10 lists of tools nobody has opened.
Recent posts
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What an AI Stack Actually Costs a One-Person Business
The real arithmetic of stacking AI subscriptions — overlap, forgotten trials, and a rule for keeping the total under control.
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The Cancel Test: The Fastest Way to Find Out What an AI Tool Is Worth
Downgrade for two weeks and let the absence do the measuring. A method for auditing AI subscriptions you already pay for.
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Ignore the Leaderboards: Run Your Own AI Model Comparison
Why public benchmarks are a weak signal for your work, and a one-evening method for finding out which AI model is actually best for you.
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Where AI Actually Saves Time (and Where It Quietly Wastes It)
A working taxonomy of tasks AI is reliably good at, tasks it quietly loses you time on, and the verification tax that separates them.
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How to Evaluate an AI Tool Before You Pay for It
A seven-question framework for deciding whether an AI subscription is worth it — built around your own work, not the demo video.