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My AI Bill Went From $200/Month to $45. I Shipped More, Not Less.
June: $57.01. July: $33.09. Two months after switching to DeepSeek V4 Pro via OpenCode, my AI costs dropped 75%. The commit history proves I shipped more, not less — 786 commits across 4 products. Here's the full breakdown.
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Offline Mode for My AI App Didn't Need AI. It Needed Boring.
I almost built a clever, AI-specific offline mode for DIALØGUE's iOS app. Then I asked a more boring question — what does iOS already give me? — and the real work turned out to be resisting the urge to be clever. Here's the standard, unglamorous machinery behind "download an episode and listen on a plane," and why boring was the senior choice.
Native Isn't a Skin: Rebuilding DIALØGUE's iOS App
I shipped DIALØGUE's iOS app as a port of the web product, then rebuilt it natively — three tabs, lock-screen audio, a synced transcript, resilient offline, and Siri — because a web app shrunk to a phone is still a web app.
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