AI Tools

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I keep seeing tools promise “video creation for everyone.” And then you open them up and realize “everyone” means “everyone who wants to pick from the same 12 templates everyone else is using. Remotion is different — and not because it’s easier. It’s different because it treats video the way the web treats pages: as code. If that sentence excites you, keep reading. If it scares you, keep reading anyway — because understanding this tool changes how you think about video production, even if you never write a line of React. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. For three years, Microsoft’s AI strategy was basically a synonym for OpenAI. They poured over $13 billion into Sam Altman’s company, got early access to the best models on the planet, and built Copilot entirely on top of GPT. That era just ended. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I asked ChatGPT about a weird chest tightness I’d been having. It told me it was probably anxiety and suggested breathing exercises. It wasn’t anxiety. It was a pulled intercostal muscle — annoying but harmless — but the point stuck with me: the AI had no way to know which one it was, and it confidently gave me an answer anyway. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I run two blogs, a YouTube channel, social media accounts, and a full content pipeline — research, writing, images, audio narration, publishing. My total cost: $60 a month. No team. No office. No code. Just AI tools wired together in a way that most people don’t realize is possible yet. Here’s the exact stack and what each tool actually does. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Everyone’s talking about AI agents right now. But if you’ve tried to figure out what they actually are, you’ve probably hit a wall of jargon — “function calling,” “orchestration,” “agentic loops” — that makes your eyes glaze over. I was in the same boat until I stopped reading tech blogs and just started using them. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve been through the email tool graveyard. Mailchimp, SendGrid, ConvertKit, Beehiiv — I’ve tried them all. Most of them either charge you for features you don’t need or make you feel like you need a computer science degree to send a welcome email. So when I heard about Resend, I was skeptical. Another email tool? Really? ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I built an AI influencer. Spent around $500 between the Glambase model and image credits. Set up accounts on Fanvue, YouTube, Rumble, and X. Instagram blocked it within a week. I made exactly zero dollars. Never broke even. And that experience — which I’ll walk through in this post — taught me more about the AI influencer industry than any hype article ever could. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve tested a lot of social media scheduling tools. Buffer, Hootsuite, Later, Publer — they all do roughly the same thing: you write posts, schedule them across platforms, and pay a monthly fee for the privilege. Then I found AiToEarn, and it broke the pattern completely. It’s free, it’s open-source, and it pays you to post. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I used to spend my first two hours every morning doing the same busywork — sorting emails, drafting the same type of responses, pulling content ideas from my notes, scheduling posts. Two hours. Every. Single. Day. Then I built five workflows that handle all of it, and now I spend those two hours actually creating. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Last month I counted every AI tool I’d signed up for. Forty-seven. I was actively using three. That’s not a tech stack — that’s a graveyard of free trials and good intentions. And if you’re reading this, I’m willing to bet your number isn’t far off. ...