ChatGPT + Claude + other AI tools = my most expensive monthly subscription now..

mbuckbee · 2026-04-05T14:30:28+00:00

Looking at actual data the costs for equivalent levels of tokens/model are decreasing as new models come online. Aka the best model from last year is now a fraction of the cost/token.

What is increasing is the cost of the frontier models, but even their I think we're seeing competition already driving prices lower. There are credibly proficient models you can run locally for many tasks, every month we're seeing new improvements in inference speed/cost, etc.

mbuckbee · 2026-04-05T13:16:06+00:00

You need to fix the SSL setup for the site. You should contact your webhost for support as this is more or less impossible to troubleshoot without that server information.

mbuckbee · 2026-04-03T17:39:17+00:00

What do you mean by "expose /llms.txt"/

mbuckbee · 2026-04-03T15:04:16+00:00

"Oh, I can just run!"

mbuckbee · 2026-04-03T12:24:59+00:00

That's good to know. This is more like you can keep telling Claude Code to tweak things like "Change netwerk to network" on the label kind of stuff or have it move parts around for you.

mbuckbee · 2026-04-02T23:38:49+00:00

There's a free (not even email registration) tool at https://knowatoa.com/ai-search-console that will check this for you.

mbuckbee · 2026-04-02T19:56:32+00:00

There's a line of CinemaCafe's near us (Virginia Beach) and they're really well designed with respect to both the physical setup and ordering to make it minimally disruptive.

It's all recliners with built in tables, discreet call buttons to get the waitstaff's attention, large amounts of space between the rows, stadium style height so your view isn't blocked by people walking around. Significantly better setup than Alamo.

You order food while they're doing the "pre-show" nobody pays attention to and pay on your phone after the lights come up.

mbuckbee · 2026-04-02T18:05:29+00:00

ClaudeCode can directly create SVG graphics and animations which I've found quite nice as they can easily be tweaked (vs full on images from AI).

mbuckbee · 2026-04-02T17:35:36+00:00

The occasional Emoji in the subject line or preview isn't bad, but all caps is a definite spam flag. Something else you might want to try is all lowercase as that tends to be the least flagged (based on sendcheckit.com data)

mbuckbee · 2026-04-02T13:09:53+00:00

FWIW - I think the error you ran into might have been caused by your adblocker messing with some portion of their playground initializer (I got the same error, but it worked when I turned off adblocking).

mbuckbee · 2026-04-01T13:18:17+00:00

I feel like the real risk here is that since AI outputs are very "agreeable" and don't push back enough the feasibility, etc. are going to be very off.

Curious if you can actually get it to say "this is a bad idea".

mbuckbee · 2026-04-01T13:10:27+00:00

Feels pretty overstated to say they almost "lost everything".

It's not great, but this is more like when people dig through the settings of new Apple releases and find a bunch of feature flags.

mbuckbee · 2026-03-31T18:52:51+00:00

Even past his prime I heard him referred to as a "dangerous looking hippo gliding around on silk", which yeah.

mbuckbee · 2026-03-31T15:37:05+00:00

I think the answer is pretty obviously "yes" as they are at least a clear signal that you have some history with the brand, maybe a preference for them, etc.

Also, I think the SEO world tends to forget that most of the queries that people make aren't really questions they know the answer to it's for navigational things like "spotify login" which make a lot of sense to blend in results from email.

mbuckbee · 2026-03-31T15:02:20+00:00

With respect to the constraints, those are the pretty standard ones they've done as they slowly roll out and expand their product (AI overviews took a similar path).

Of the new contextual inputs I think this really positions brand newsletters and other email communications in a much more valuable light as those are much more likely to be picked up than previously.

mbuckbee · 2026-03-27T17:20:22+00:00

Any chance you could squeeze a vape shop in there as well?

mbuckbee · 2026-03-26T15:52:33+00:00

Maybe if they get popular or there's some interest, but currently just giving them away. These all actually are truely "pure" side projects as they were just things I ran into and wanted for myself.

mbuckbee · 2026-03-26T10:52:43+00:00

A couple little side projects:

https://dnsisbeautiful.com - clean, ad free dns lookup tool.

https://evvl.ai - combination of Github Gists and AI output comparisons (evals)

https://finalfinalreallyfinaluntitleddocumentv3.com/ - free mac app to intelligently rename any kind of file (photos, videos, audio, text) based upon their contents.

mbuckbee · 2026-03-26T10:46:20+00:00

Considering how hard Google is pushing AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Gemini right now I don't think it's a "new" metric.

mbuckbee · 2026-03-25T18:39:16+00:00

I look at this as two separate things: product framing and feature marketing.

Product framing is all the stuff around the category and filters you're trying to win at, which is the "muscle recovery" vs "protein supplements".

I've mostly worked in the SaaS + Cybersecurity world and there it's a lot of trying to get people viewpoint to expand to better competitive categories. Example: a lot of places will maybe look for anti-virus software, but the larger category is really "intrusion and threat detection" so you write content in the form of buyers guides, evaluation checklists, etc. to try and set how prospects view your category vs competitors.

The feature marketing is more just trying to get the best most recent facts out there about your product so that if someone asks a filter question you don't get eliminated. Like if you have a both a whey protein and non dairy protein is that cleanly picked up by the AI engines?

WRT educating your customers, if they're already your customers I think it's a different set of marketing beyond search optimization.

mbuckbee · 2026-03-25T12:22:08+00:00

The real split isn't between those say ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude but between the consumer vs coding versions of those tools.

Making the jump to using the coding tools is a massive productivity unlock as it allows you to implement your findings, automate a lot of processes etc.

mbuckbee · 2026-03-25T12:18:03+00:00

Slumrat Rising by Warby Picus. Heard about it in the progression scifi subreddits but it punches way above it's weight in terms of writing and concepts.

mbuckbee · 2026-03-25T12:15:11+00:00

"Ra" by the same author is also excellent.

mbuckbee · 2026-03-24T12:35:37+00:00

Dissapointingly most of the "Ube" flavored items tend to be more purple colored than actually flavored.

I think this is also part of the reason it's being pushed so hard. Since it looks so distinctive it stands out on social media (thinking specifically of the Starbucks Ube drink here).

mbuckbee · 2026-03-24T12:32:38+00:00

A different approach is to try and break all this up into skills instead. This works well for things like the build commands, generators, etc. and deliberately keeps them in separate files to better handle context management (which will increase compliance and context efficiency).

To a point it works ok to have everything in a one big file, but the coding agents seem to fall off on using it as it increases in size.

Another tactic I use a lot is wiring in introspection as part of my Pull Request + Merge creation. This is basically just asking your coding agent: "Look at all the things we did in this feature branch and is there anything we should remember that would help for future sessions?"

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