Automation

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Zapier’s free tier dropped to 75 tasks/month in 2026, while Make still offers 1,000 operations/month — a 13x difference that widens further at scale. At 10,000 operations monthly, Make costs $10.59 compared to Zapier’s $73.50. Both platforms added native AI features this year, but they took different approaches. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I switched from Zapier to Make last month after three years on Zapier’s platform. Here’s the short version: Zapier’s Starter plan costs $29.99/month for 750 tasks. Make’s Core plan costs $10.59/month for 10,000 operations. Running the same 15 automations, I used roughly 3,000 Make operations per month versus blowing through Zapier’s 750-task cap in two weeks. The per-task pricing model is where Zapier bleeds you. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Three major AI companies now offer agentic coding models within striking distance of each other on price. Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1 launched at $1.25 per million input tokens. Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 4.5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Luna are in the same ballpark. For the first time since AI coding tools went mainstream, you have real pricing competition — and that changes the math for solo builders. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Meta has a pattern: enter a market with a free or open-source alternative, undercut the competition, and force the entire industry to adjust. They did it with PyTorch against TensorFlow. They did it with Llama against proprietary language models. Now they are doing it with Muse Spark 1.1 in the coding AI space — and if you build without code, this pattern matters. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Meta launched Muse Spark 1.1 on June 20, 2025, and Mark Zuckerberg broke a three-year silence on X to announce it. The model is priced at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens, positioning it directly against Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 4.5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Luna. For no-code builders, the key feature is agentic coding: Spark can plan and execute multi-step workflows, not just generate code snippets. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve been paying for Claude and ChatGPT for months. They’re good. But when Meta dropped Muse Spark 1.1 and I saw “free through the Meta AI app,” I closed both subscriptions tabs and started testing. A free AI coding model that scores within a point of GPT-5.5 on agent benchmarks isn’t a marketing stunt — it changes what a solo builder can afford to run. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Zapier vs Make: What Actually Matters for Automation in 2026 The biggest Zapier latest news in 2026 isn’t a pricing change or a new integration count. It’s that the whole question of “Zapier vs Make” matters less than it did two years ago. Both platforms are still excellent, still dominant, and still the first names people search for. But AI agents have changed when you actually need either one. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Two weeks ago, OpenAI announced GPT 5.6. It’s not generally available. The U.S. government is approving its release customer by customer, and Anthropic’s Mythos has been stuck in the same limbo for months. If you built your business on the assumption that new AI models would keep shipping on schedule, that assumption just broke. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Two weeks ago, the biggest question in AI was “Claude or ChatGPT?” Now it’s “will the government let either of them ship?” If you’ve been picking sides in the Anthropic-versus-OpenAI race, that race just got called on account of regulation, and the consequences reach every tool you’re using right now. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Six months ago, picking an AI tool felt like choosing sides in a rap beef. Anthropic or OpenAI? Claude or ChatGPT? Every thread on X was people arguing about which one was “better” like there was a single answer. I spent way too much time reading those threads instead of actually building things. ...