Penny’s 11 months old. Sleep consultants charge $800+ for PDFs — probably Claude-generated anyway. I’ve been using OpenClaw as a sleep consultant. Running on grok-4-1-fast it costs pennies per conversation. Cheaper than Anthropic. Way cheaper than a $800 PDF that some consultant probably generated with Claude in the first place. Here’s what happened. Baseline (April…
I’ve spent $328 on AI tokens this month. I know that because I went back and looked. I wasn’t tracking it in real time — I was too busy building things to notice the bill going up. Four projects. A camera app that transforms photos using Gemini vision. A trading bot I ran live until…
The Thing About Being a Dad Is That It’s Not About You I figured this out later than I should have. For most of my life, the scorecard was pretty simple. Am I getting better at my craft? Am I building something? Is the work moving forward? I could measure all of it. I knew…
I have been drawing the same character since I was a kid. Round head. Big dark eyes. No mouth. A little red heart on his chest. Last week I turned him into an AI agent. Not a chatbot. Not an avatar. A working piece of a system I have been building. He is part of…
I have been drawing the same character since I was a kid. Round head. Big dark eyes. No mouth. A little red heart on his chest. Last week I turned him into an AI agent. Not a chatbot. Not an avatar. A working piece of a system I have been building. He is part of…