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Last Tuesday at 3 AM, my PagerDuty went off. Actually, wait—it was Wednesday. I remember because I'd just finished prepping for our Wednesday standup and was ab
TL;DR: Our 12-person startup migrated from GitHub Copilot to Cursor. The money we saved was nice—€8,400/year is real cash. But the actual win? Our workflow got
*Last month, I nearly spat out my coffee reviewing a startup's cloud bill. Three people. One MVP. $4,200 in AI API calls. And here's the punchline—60% of those
Hot take: Most of you are haemorrhaging cash on AI text processing, and the "best" model is rarely the one you actually need. Let me paint you a picture
Throwaway account because my main one's tied to my startup and I really don't need investors watching me publicly roast the tools we're paying for. Again
I still remember watching a developer use one of the first AI coding assistants back in 2022. They'd type a prompt, lean back, and wait. Four seconds. Sometimes
I threw away two months of work last week. Two. Whole. Months. Just... gone. The reason? I fundamentally misunderstood how voice interruption works in OpenAI's
Last weekend, I did something that felt vaguely unethical: I fed our most cursed legacy module to two different AI coding assistants and watched them fight it o
I remember sitting in a product review at Stripe back in 2019, watching a demo of our shiny new customer support chatbot. The user typed a question. Then nothin
Last quarter, I watched a team burn through 40% of their monthly cloud budget in two weeks. The culprit wasn't an infinite loop or a rogue Kubernetes cluster. I
Last month, I found myself staring at an internal research briefing that made me put down my coffee mid-sip. Not the dramatic "spit take" thing people joke abou
Last Wednesday at 2:47 AM—I know the timestamp because Slack kindly reminded me—I was staring at our AWS billing dashboard with that sinking feeling you get whe