Practical AI for people who ship

May 6, 2026

Slack AI vs Teams Copilot: One Month, Two Tools, No Overall Winner

I ran the same channels, meetings, and queries through Slack AI and Teams Copilot for a month. Here's which AI was worth the extra cost.

May 5, 2026

MCP Servers Setup Guide: I Tested 6 and Kept 4

I set up 6 MCP servers in Claude Desktop and Cursor in one weekend. Exact configs, what broke, and the 4 keepers worth your context tokens.

May 4, 2026

Why Your LLM Token Counting Spreadsheet Doesn't Match Your Bill

Most LLM cost articles list 8 ways to save 80%. This one starts with where your money actually goes — and what's worth optimizing.

May 4, 2026

Vision Models for Code: 3 That Save Time, 2 That Don't

Three workflows where vision models save 15 min, two where they cost you more. Honest cost and model comparison for Claude, GPT, Gemini.

May 3, 2026

The 15-Minute Weekly AI Competitive Analysis Workflow That Works

A practical AI competitive analysis workflow: Perplexity for discovery, Claude for synthesis. 15 minutes a week, ~$30/month. No analyst needed.

May 3, 2026

Claude Projects: What $20/Month Actually Bought Me (90 Days In)

Ran my consulting workflow in Claude Projects for 90 days. The real adoption arc, what broke, and whether $20/month actually pays back.

May 2, 2026

Fine-Tuning vs. Prompts: I Spent $4,000 to Find the Real Breakeven

Tested fine-tuning vs prompts on 5 real tasks. Prompts won 3. Here's the cost data, the breakeven volume, and the hidden costs nobody quotes.

May 2, 2026

I Built a Multi-LLM Router: Here's Which Model to Use When

Tested 10 real tasks across Claude, GPT-4, Gemini, and Llama. Here's the decision tree that picks the right model per task — and when not to bother.

May 1, 2026

LangSmith vs Braintrust vs Helicone: Catching Silent Failures in Production AI Apps

We ran LangSmith, Braintrust, and Helicone on the same Claude endpoints. One caught a hallucination before it shipped. Here's what each flags.

May 1, 2026

Pinecone vs Weaviate vs Qdrant: The Hidden Costs Nobody Mentions

I built RAG with Pinecone, Weaviate, and Qdrant. Latency, surprise costs, ops burden — the honest breakdown of what actually matters.