When the Bill Arrived
When compute got scarce, the companies grading workers on token usage reversed course overnight. How easy that reversal was tells you how little of that mandated AI usage was solving real problems.
Building with AI, in the real world
I build with AI every day and write down what actually happens. The bills, the trade-offs, the tools that hold up and the ones that fall over. No hype. Just what I learned shipping.
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