Is Claude Writing Getting Worse? What an Anthropic Engineer Said
Use a 5.5 model and add a plain-writing rule in Settings.
AI, on your terms.
Plain-English help for a world that won’t stop updating.
Should you connect your bank account to ChatGPT? Finances is read-only and runs through Plaid. Here's what it can see and which settings to check first.
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Use a 5.5 model and add a plain-writing rule in Settings.
Starting October 9, free Gemini drops to one model, Flash-Lite. Here's what free users and AI Plus subscribers lose, what you'll notice, and what Pro costs.
Useful settings. Clear steps. Your choice.

How to turn off Gemini on Android, Samsung, Gmail, Docs, Chrome, Messages, and Photos, step by step, plus how to stop it saving your chats and what stays on.

Alexa for Shopping, Amazon's renamed Rufus, shows up to 365 days of price history before Prime Big Deal Days. How to set alerts, and why I'd leave Auto Buy off.

ChatGPT dots are always-on agents in every Pro plan from $100 a month. Who gets one, how to set it up, and the rules to set before it spends your money.
Honest comparisons for everyday decisions.

ChatGPT Plus and Pro stopped switching to Thinking for you on September 14. Here's how to pick ChatGPT Instant vs Thinking, when each is enough, and what Pro costs.

Gamma vs Canva vs Beautiful.ai compared: which AI presentation maker builds a deck fastest, which one is actually free, and what each costs in 2026.

GPT-5.6 Sol vs Claude Fable 5: benchmarks say nearly a tie, but Sol ships with the $20 ChatGPT plan while Fable now needs per-token credits. I ran the math.
A closer look at what these tools can do.

Claude Design launched April 17. I tested Anthropic's new AI design tool by building a one-pager with it. Here's what works and what still feels beta.

NotebookLM is Google's free AI research assistant. This honest review covers what it does well, its limitations, and how to use it for documents, research, and more.

After a while I kept seeing the same simple questions come up over and over. So I started writing the answers down, and that's what this blog is.
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