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Applied AI
AI, agents, answer-engine optimization, and how I build systems on top of them.
- I Priced One Month of My AI Subscription at API Rates My $200 Claude Max plan did $1,086 of work in July at Anthropic's published API prices. Subscriptions are the cheap way to buy frontier AI right now, and that window won’t last forever.
- Talking Through My Workday: My Wispr Flow Setup How I use Wispr Flow (voice dictation mapped to my mouse's middle button, paired with a bone-conduction headset) to get words out faster across every app on my Mac.
- The Future of Apple Intelligence (and Why It's Worth Getting Fluent Now) Where on-device AI goes next, my predictions for how Apple plays it, and the honest case against them. Part 6 of a 6-part series on Apple Intelligence.
- Apple Intelligence: What You Can Actually Do Right Now The hands-on, phone-first post: the built-in features worth using, a Shortcuts automation you can build in five minutes, and which parts are genuinely useful. Part 5 of a 6-part series on Apple Intelligence.
- Apple Intelligence and Privacy (and Why Builders Should Care) The real privacy guarantees behind Apple Intelligence's three tiers, the 2026 Google Cloud wrinkle, and why 'free, private, offline' changes what developers can ship. Part 4 of a 6-part series on local AI.
- The Two Apple Intelligence Models, and How Your Phone Decides A plain-English tour of Apple's on-device model, Private Cloud Compute, and the ChatGPT tier, plus the surprising reason your iPhone and an expensive Mac aren't as far apart as you'd think. Part 3 of a 6-part series on local AI.
- A Short History of Apple Intelligence (and the Siri That Kept Slipping) How Apple Intelligence went from a big 2024 stage promise to what actually shipped, and why the personal-context Siri took until 2026. Part 2 of a 6-part series on local AI.
- What Is Apple Intelligence? A plain-English overview of Apple Intelligence (the on-device-first personal AI layer in iPhone, iPad, and Mac) and the kickoff to a 6-part series on why local AI is worth paying attention to.
- ConnectAI: Traditional AI and LLMs Working Together Most conversations about AI flatten everything into a single bucket. “AI did this.” “AI decided that.” “AI is thinking.” In reality, modern AI-powered products are…
- Common LLM Terminology Simplified The terminology around AI, especially Large Language Models (LLMs), is changing so quickly, I thought it'd be a good idea to make some simple definitions of common…
- Introducing Content Machine: A Free AI-Powered Content Generator Content Machine: A Free AI-Powered Content Generator I've recently launched Content Machine , a free tool designed to streamline the content creation process.…
- DeepSeek Explained in 60 Seconds DeepSeek has recently gained attention for its AI models that rival industry leaders like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. This post, inspired by Computerphile’s video, breaks…