Long-form notes, reviews, and comparisons from tools I use while building websites, writing content, testing AI workflows, and improving SEO.
Most posts start from hands-on use: trying an AI model for coding, comparing research tools, building with a product for a few days, or solving a real SEO/content problem. I avoid publishing summaries that only repeat launch announcements. When a tool is useful, I try to explain the exact workflow where it helped; when it is weak, I note the limitation clearly.
The focus is practical value for readers: what to try, what to skip, what free limits matter, and which use cases need a different tool.
Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro topped every benchmark this month. I forced myself to switch from Claude for 5 full days on real work. Some things genuinely impressed me. One thing annoyed me every single day.
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Vibe coding means describing what you want and letting AI write the code while you barely read it. I tested this seriously on real projects for two weeks. Built some things fast. Also broke something in production. Honest account.
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Meta dropped Llama 4 this month — open weights, free to use, better than Llama 3 by a real margin. I've tried it on meta.ai, through Groq, and locally on my machine. Here's the honest experience of each.
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Windsurf by Codeium has been getting serious attention as a Cursor alternative. I've been going back and forth between them on actual projects. The free tier difference matters a lot. So does one specific thing Windsurf handles better.
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Jan is a free, open-source desktop app that runs AI models completely offline on your own machine. Claude is a polished cloud AI. I use both for different things — here's how they actually compare.
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Jan is a free, open-source desktop app that runs real AI models directly on your computer — no cloud, no subscription, no data leaving your machine. Here's what it's genuinely like to use day-to-day.
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NotebookLM lets you upload your own documents and ask an AI questions about only that material — no internet hallucinations. Free from Google. I use it constantly. Here's what actually works.
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Grok from xAI is free on X. I expected another AI that exists mainly for PR. It does have one genuinely useful feature no other model has. The rest is average. Honest review after a few weeks.
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I run @9_face_toon, a Hindi animation page with around 40K followers each on Instagram and YouTube. Here are the AI video tools I genuinely use day to day, the ones I have only tested briefly, and what they each fit into a real production workflow.
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Perplexity gives you a direct answer with cited sources in seconds — no ads, no 2022 articles ranking for current questions. I've been using it for months. Here's what it's actually good for and where I still use Google.
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A year ago ChatGPT was clearly better. That's changed. I use both every day for different things and have a specific opinion on which one to reach for when. No benchmarks, just actual use.
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Cursor is a VS Code fork with AI built in. I was skeptical — but after 2 months it genuinely changed how I code. Here's what works, what's overhyped, and whether it's worth switching.
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I work as a senior engineer at an AI company and also run a Hindi animation page with brand-deal earnings. Five income paths I have either lived or watched up close, plus what to actually charge when you are starting out in India.
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Being a student means no budget but a heavy workload. These AI tools are completely free — or have real student deals — and they'll actually help you study, write, and code better.
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There are hundreds of AI tools. Most are paid or overhyped. These are the free tools I keep using in 2026, with notes on where each one fits and where it falls short.
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Generic prompts give generic results. These are the specific Claude prompts I use daily for debugging, refactoring, reading messy code, and getting answers I can actually use.
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I work on a multi-LLM platform in production that uses Claude, the OpenAI GPT family, and Gemini across nine Indian languages. Here is how I actually split coding work between them, and which model wins for which job inside a real codebase.
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Free domains like .tk look tempting when you're starting out. Here's what actually happens when you use them — the SEO hit, the trust problem, and why paying ~₹900/year is almost always the right call.
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I manually dragged files into Hostinger's file manager for way too long. Turns out they support GitHub auto-deploy and it takes about 10 minutes. Here's the exact setup, step by step.
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AI platforms are exploring advertising. This is still early-stage and evolving — but businesses that prepare now will have an advantage when it fully rolls out. Here's what we know and what makes sense to do today.
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