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AIChat turns plain English into shell commands you approve before they run. The setup, the three modes I use daily, and why the whole thing costs cents.
I keep abandoning knowledge management tools the moment they are finished. What changed my mind about the one everybody already knows, and what it costs.
Why I moved my default search engine to a paid one. What Google does with your queries, what five dollars a month buys instead, and the part I am unsure about.
One month into betting on open-source AI: the model I actually run now, what it really costs, and the flat-rate plan with a real key that changed the bill.
I created a real ChatGPT Ads account and clicked through every screen. The one setting that decides whether it is worth your money: who actually sees the ads.
Why I am moving my businesses to local, open-source AI after a US order made Anthropic cut off two models worldwide in a single afternoon.
I gave an AI agent autopilot on a VPS, got hooked on the dopamine loop, and burned 2000€ in API tokens in a week. The gap between demo magic and reality.
Why sharing API keys for teaching, CI/CD, or team projects shouldn't require giving everyone access to your organization.
How connecting Claude to Playwright fixed one of my biggest frustrations with AI-driven development.
How a one-star Google review on my business led to a bizarre extortion attempt from a Cambodian vape shop, and the sophisticated scam network behind it all.