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One AI Parameter Change Cost Me $54/Month
I thought my Cloud Run migration was flawless until a single AI parameter—temperature set to 0.7 instead of 0—caused 30% failed API calls and cost me $54/month in wasted tokens.
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From Advertising to Engineering: Technical Lessons from Building DIALØGUE
I migrated from AWS to GCP and achieved 92% cost reduction with 10x faster performance—here's what I learned ditching "best practices" for pragmatic architecture that actually works.
DIALØGUE: Building an AI-Powered Podcast Generator from Scratch (And Learning a Ton Along the Way)
I built an AI podcast generator that lets you shape the content before it's created—because I was tired of AI just reading Wikipedia at me during my commute.
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Google Gemini 2.5 Pro is now my go-to coding partner
No. 05AICrewAI is Good! - My First Impressions
No. 06AII Cheated: Sydney Can Now Read the Narrative in 10-K Reports
No. 07AILess Is More
No. 08AIS&P500 Agent MVP Launched: Answering Financial Questions Grounded with SEC Data
No. 09AIThree months later: Still coding, still learning, still stuck (sometimes)
No. 10AIAn upgrade to my current chatbot
No. 11AIBuilding a Self-Evaluating Financial Chatbot: A Journey Through Data, Code, and Struggles
No. 12AIMy 4-Week Journey: From Frontend Upgrades to Docker Struggles and Breakthroughs
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