Deep dives into artificial intelligence tools, practical guides, and expert perspectives on the technologies shaping tomorrow.
Pick Ollama, LM Studio or llama.cpp, check what your memory can hold with one rule of thumb, and run your first local model in about 10 minutes.
Generic AI proposal prompts produce fluff. Use a six-section scope skeleton (outcome, exclusions, assumptions, revisions, timeline, payment) and let Claude or ChatGPT fill it from your call notes, with a prompt that forbids invention.
Which tool to open when you need to chat with a PDF: ChatPDF for one quick file, Gemini Notebook for a pile of sources, Humata for team document sets, Claude for reasoning. Plus a 5-minute test to check any of them.
A plain-English guide to Supabase acquiring Turso and launching Compute: what shipped at Select 2026, what is production-ready, and what AI agent builders should adopt now or wait on.
Reclaim protects recurring time, Motion schedules deadline tasks, and Clockwise closed on March 27, 2026. Plans and prices checked October 21, 2026, plus where former Clockwise users go.
ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude all sell deep research, but only Perplexity publishes a research count. Here is plan access, published limits and prices, checked on vendor pages, with a pick per job.
Stop regex-ing prose into data and retrying failed parses. Learn the full ladder of LLM structured output, from prompting and JSON mode to schema-enforced structured outputs and tool calling, with vendor-by-vendor limits, latency gotchas, and when not to force a schema.
Gamma suits decks shared as a link, Plus AI suits decks that must stay Google Slides or PowerPoint files, and Beautiful.ai suits teams that want layout rules enforced. Plans and prices checked October 21, 2026.
Turn plain English into a working Excel or Google Sheets formula: write the request with ranges, values and your Excel version, then test the answer on a normal row, a blank row and a zero row before you trust it.
A vector database stores embeddings and finds the stored items nearest to a query by meaning. Here is how embeddings, distance metrics and HNSW indexes work, and a rule for choosing exact search, pgvector or a dedicated store.
LM Studio, Ollama and Jan all run AI models on your own computer for free. Here is which one fits you, and the first model to load for your RAM.
Never paste text that isn't yours to share into a consumer AI chat. Here is how ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini train on and keep your chats, and the settings to check.
