AI that actually works. Described without buzzwords.
Short, practical articles on how to use AI in everyday life: time-saving examples, concrete prompts and honest reviews of what works — and what doesn't.
Two ASUS GX10 boxes versus a Mac Studio: I ran a fair comparison of local language models with the same reasoning effort and no token limits. The winner wasn't the one I expected — and a control experiment changed how I test.
An AI agent rebuilt a lost card template from an old party, matched typography from measurements, and delivered 17 print-ready name cards for my mother's birthday. What the workflow actually looked like.
I talk into a small recorder a few minutes a day. By the next morning, a dated journal entry exists — transcribed locally, condensed by AI, no cloud. Here is the whole setup, including the parts that broke.
How AI got control of 3,500 documents overnight: verify, remove duplicates, archive in Obsidian. Nothing deleted, nothing guessed — and you can find it when you need it.