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· 6 min read

I Spent $1,247 Testing Multimodal AI APIs in 2025 — Here's What Actually Shipped

Last Tuesday, I stared at my Stripe dashboard with that familiar pit in my stomach. Churn had ticked up to 3.8%, and I knew exactly why — our product descriptio

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· 9 min read

I Switched from Copilot to Cursor for 6 Weeks — Here's What Actually Happened

I broke up with GitHub Copilot last month. Well, "broke up" is dramatic — we're still seeing each other at work. But for my personal projects? I'm with someone

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· 7 min read

How I Slashed My AI Bill by 73% (While Actually Improving Output Quality)

Last month, my OpenAI bill hit $4,837. I nearly spat out my coffee. For context, that's more than my rent in Barcelona. Pieter Levels once tweeted that "AI cost

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· 7 min read

I Threw Our Cursed Auth System at GPT-5.1-Codex-Max and It Found a Bug I'd Been Chasing for Months

I've been burned by AI coding tools before. Remember that horror story last month about Copilot suggesting sudo rm -rf / in a bash script? Yeah, I've been in th

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· 6 min read

I Let OpenAI's Codex Run My CI/CD Pipeline for Three Weeks. Here's What Broke.

Last month, I had what felt like a galaxy-brain idea: what if an AI could manage our entire development pipeline? Not just write code snippets—I'm talking PR re

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· 10 min read

How I Let an AI Refactor My Entire SaaS Codebase in 48 Hours (And It Actually Worked)

Last Tuesday at 2am, I was staring at 47,000 lines of spaghetti code thinking "this is fine" while my churn rate quietly climbed to 6.8%. By Thursday night, Cla

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· 9 min read

I Wired Cursor Rules Into Our Production Codebase — Now I Can't Tell if It's Brilliant or Terrifying

TIL that Cursor Rules isn't just some glorified .cursorrules file — it's basically a prompt injection system that silently feeds your AI assistant context befor

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· 12 min read

Cursor 0.5's Agent vs Composer Mode: A DevOps Engineer's Brutally Honest Take After 2 Weeks

Meta Description: I spent a weekend stress-testing Cursor 0.5's Agent and Composer modes against production Terraform configs. Here's what surprised me, what fa

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· 10 min read

How I Wasted $4,200 on AI Models Before Finding the Architecture That Actually Worked

Last Tuesday at 2 AM, I was staring at my AWS bill with that specific kind of dread you only get when you've been haemorrhaging money on something you barely un

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· 8 min read

How I Built a Semantic Search Engine in a Weekend and Saved My SaaS from Dying

I almost shut down my SaaS six months ago. Not exaggerating—I was staring at a 12% monthly churn rate, support tickets were literally drowning me, and I was sle

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· 6 min read

I Reverse-Engineered DeepSeek's 128K Context Window — Here's What Actually Works (and What Breaks)

Last Tuesday at 2 AM, I found myself deep in DeepSeek's API documentation, running benchmarks I definitely wasn't supposed to be running. My excuse? "Competitiv

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· 10 min read

The Great Unbundling: Why Smart Teams Are Ditching AI Frameworks for Native APIs in Production

I remember sitting in a conference room at Stripe in March 2023, watching an engineer demo a prototype built with LangChain v0.0.142. The demo worked flawlessly

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