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raspberry pi 5.5
Running local AI on the Raspberry Pi 5 taught me why cloud models are still winning

The results were surprisingly wacky

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NotebookLM on phone and MacBook
I used NotebookLM's free version for research work and realized I never needed the paid tier at all

$0/month hits different.

Gemini on iPad
I gave Gemini access to my entire Google Drive and it became the assistant I actually wanted

With my Google Drive as context, Gemini finally became the assistant I’d been trying to build all along.

Claude Projects on a monitor.
I asked Claude to improve my home lab and it was wild

Home lab architect powered by AI.

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Nvidia's Build page, showing models, and the Pi coding harness connected and accessing Stepfun's step-3.5-flash model.
I've been running some of the biggest open-weight LLMs for free on Nvidia's cloud
AI

You can use big models for free, though there aren't any promises on speed.

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lm studio models on desktop pc, lego and lamp in view
Running local LLMs every day for five months broke every assumption I had about them

It’s worth it, with caveats

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laptop screen showing productivity dashboard with focus timer and daily tasks for wednesday april 28 2026
Your Chrome new tab page is a vibe coding project waiting to happen

The least exciting page in your browser is also the easiest one to vibe-code.

NotebookLM Tools on desktop pc, lamp and book in view
NotebookLM Tools saved me from tab-switching chaos, and now I can't imagine working without it

When I saw what NotebookLM Tools could do, I felt immediate relief. It made sense, and I couldn't believe I had been doing it that way for so long.

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claude ai assistant interface showing mahnoor returns message on mac laptop screen
I replaced five paid subscriptions with Claude, and none were coding tools

Who knew one subscription could kill five others?

warp running on a mac
Warp's free tier finally got good enough to make me delete iTerm2

Warp's structured output and built-in assistance reduced the time spent scrolling through errors and searching for answers.

qwen 3.5 9b in lm studio on desktop pc, lamp and lego in view
I replaced NotebookLM with a local LLM, and the difference is night and day

NotebookLM is only as useful as what you’re willing to give it

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Kilo Code extension
Every AI code editor wants to replace VS Code, but the smartest ones are just extending it

Embrace VS Code instead of fighting it

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claude projects feature
I tested NotebookLM, Claude Projects, and ChatGPT Projects for research, and one stood out immediately

I tested the big three so you don't have to.

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claude and canva on desktop pc, lego and lamp in view
I connected Claude to Canva, and my presentations have never been better

My presentation workflow just got a lot quicker and easier

Laptop with Chrome Skills on display
Gemini can now save your Chrome workflows as reusable skills, and it's the first AI browser feature I absolutely love

Gemini Skills saves my repeated Chrome prompts as reusable workflows, so I can run them from the sidebar without starting from scratch.

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Cursor
An AI agent deleted a company's entire database in 9 seconds, then confessed it 'guessed' instead of asking

The business owner didn't get a single prompt about the deletion.

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holyclaude github
One command sets up a Claude AI workstation better than anything I've built manually

Holy*****, where has this been all year?

screenshot of claude ai website showing built for creators section with code editor window displaying technical documentation in terminal style interface
Phew: turns out that Claude Code Pro members are keeping Opus after all

It was all one big mistake.

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claude cowork on desktop pc. lego and lamp in view
Claude Cowork handles my admin work so well that I stopped doing it myself

A tiny workflow with a big payoff

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Use Antigravity over Cursor for vibe coding
I tried VS Code, Google Antigravity, and Claude Code for a month and one clearly dominated

The AI coding war has intensified.

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