AI Reality Check
I Ran 20 AI Coding Tools for a Month. Four Earned a Place in My Workflow.
Most AI tools are demos with a subscription attached. The four that survived actually changed how I ship — here's the bar they had to clear.
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Most AI tools are demos with a subscription attached. The four that survived actually changed how I ship — here's the bar they had to clear.
Self-hosting is sold as freedom and billed as time. Here's the real cost, the real savings, and where I'd tell you not to bother.
Five outages, five root causes, and the lessons that stuck because they cost real money at 2am.
Streaming speech recognition, LLM translation, speech synthesis, and directional audio inside a single sub-two-second budget, with the tradeoffs that come with it.