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.
Streaming speech recognition, LLM translation, speech synthesis, and directional audio inside a single sub-two-second budget, with the tradeoffs that come with it.
Demos run once. Production runs thousands of times a day. Notes on latency budgets, evaluation, fallbacks, and unit economics from building AI systems for real clients.