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AI for Professionals2 min read
I connected Gmail, Calendar and Drive to Claude Pro for a doctor. It saved about 30 minutes a day, and the usage limit ran out on busy clinic days.
AI for Professionals2 min read
I used Claude Code for small parts of this site, paid per token through the API, and wrote most of the code myself. Here is where it helped, where it cost me time, and who it suits.
AI for Professionals1 min read
Higgsfield's free tier gives you 10 credits. I found out one video generation spends all of them, so the free allowance is really a single clip.
AI for Professionals3 min read
I ran out of Cursor requests sooner than I thought, so I added my own OpenAI key. Chat and the agent carried on, Tab autocomplete did not, and the key ran me about $10 a day.
AI for Professionals2 min read
I connected Gmail, Drive and Calendar for a chartered accountant with about 5 years of mail. The searching is the point, and incomplete searching is the thing nobody warns you about.
AI for Professionals2 min read
Three months of Search Console for a small site, with the real numbers: 1.2% of the people shown a link clicked it, and 23 of the 25 who did were in one country.
AI for Professionals2 min read
The memory use is what made me look. What survived the clear-out was a content blocker and one developer tool, and I have not missed anything I took off.
AI for Professionals3 min read
If time blocking is supposed to make the day predictable, mine fails most of the time. It is still worth doing, for a reason that has nothing to do with the estimates being right.
AI for Professionals2 min read
Opus 5.5 costs 60% less than Fable 5.1 on the API. On my Pro plan I code with Opus and write with Fable, and Opus hit the usage limit first.
AI for Professionals2 min read
The steps to connect Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Drive to Claude, what each one can reach, and the Google permission screen that slowed me down.
updated AI for Professionals3 min read
Every article says Next.js caches fetch by default. On 16.3.1 it does not, caching is opt-in. You still get stale data, for a different reason, and that is why the usual fix does not work.
updated AI for Professionals3 min read
The same change took about 5 minutes with Claude Code and about 15 with Cursor. That is not a fair fight: I was on Cursor's free tier and a Claude plan I pay for, and the comparison has to say so.
updated AI for Professionals2 min read
Flash input goes from $0.75 to $1.50 and output from $3.75 to $7.50 per million tokens on 1 January 2027. That is the API price. If you pay for Gemini in a browser, it is not the price you pay.
updated AI for Professionals3 min read
A Next.js build is around a thousand files. Uploading that over FTP from GitHub Actions did not fail cleanly, it finished and left the site in a state that was neither the old version nor the new one.
updated AI for Professionals3 min read
I gave Perplexity Comet real jobs: price research, forms, Gmail and a booking. It was slow, it asked for confirmation constantly, and I stopped it before it could pay.
updated AI for Professionals3 min read
The warning about buying software outright is that updates stop. That is not what happened to me. The licence held, the program still runs, and the features worth having moved to a paid cloud tier.
updated AI for Professionals3 min read
The files and the project came across without trouble. The in-editor AI and my chat history did not, and only one of those is unavoidable.
updated AI for Professionals4 min read
I have not used ChatGPT Atlas. I used Gemini's side panel in Chrome: page summaries in 20 to 30 seconds, and no help with the clicking.
updated AI for Professionals2 min read
Ulauncher opens anything I have installed in one keystroke. Ask it for a file outside my home folder and it finds nothing. I gave up after about 5 tries.
updated AI for Professionals3 min read
It wrote formulas fine and misread the shape of my sheet. Past 100 to 200 rows I stopped trusting what came back, and the charts do not update.