AI Tools

A small, unglamorous AI stack that quietly does about an hour of work before I've finished my coffee. Here's the exact lineup and what each one does.

I stopped doing the busywork and let AI assistants run the boring half of my job for a month. The results were not what I bragged about on day one.

I pay for a dozen AI tools. Only three are so good I'd pay twice the price tomorrow without blinking. Here's what makes them different.

For seven days I funneled everything — planning, writing, decisions, busywork — through a single AI tool. Here's what got better, what got worse, and what I kept.

Everyone's chasing flashy AI demos. The real leverage is hiding in a boring place most people walk right past.

Eighteen months ago everyone wanted to be a 'prompt engineer.' I think that job is already gone — and what replaced it matters far more.

Same brief, five tools, thirty days. One I kept, one I cancelled the same week, and the surprises in between.

Not the tools. The habits. Five small ways I started using AI that quietly reshaped how I work, learn, and think over twelve months.

I added up what I was paying for AI tools and felt sick. Half of them I'd opened twice. Here's how I cut the bloat without cutting the value.

Eleven AI subscriptions, one brutally honest scorecard. Here's what was worth every cent and what I'd warn you away from.

I checked my own habits and got a little embarrassed. I open an AI assistant more often than I open a search bar now. Here's why, and where it still fails.

A full year of using AI every single day. The hype faded fast, but a few habits stuck — and those are the ones worth keeping.