Notes from
the work.
Tools, costs and trade-offs, written up as they get tested. Published when something is worth passing on, not to a content calendar.
The AI tool I use every day costs cents and lives in the terminal
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 have quit Notion three times. Now I am setting a company up on it.
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 pay for a search engine
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.
Open-source AI is becoming a commodity. Here is what I am actually running.
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 signed up for ChatGPT Ads so you don't have to
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 open-source AI has to win
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.