Free LLM vs paid LLM, judged against the work you really do
Most pricing advice is a six-minute sponsored video. Here's how a bar, a freelance consultant, and a shop owner actually picked, without wasting money on models they don't need.
The Journal
Notes from pairing sessions.
Short, honest write-ups of real projects and real decisions: free vs paid AI, what's worth automating, and why we always start from a need.
One email when there's something worth reading.
We built a bar's stock-and-provisioning app in one coffee
Paper counts, guess-orders, a slow Excel file. Then one session: what the app did, what we left out on purpose, and how the bar uses it every single shift since.
Kids don't need to be taught "how to use AI". They need to build.
If school teaches reading by worksheet, the kids I pair with learn it by building: their story, their game, their first site. AI as helper, not crutch.