Articles tagged: AI Tools
MARCUS WEBB · REVIEW
Reality Check: I Own Meta Ray-Bans. Here's What 'Designed for Privacy' Actually Means.
Meta marketed their smart glasses as 'designed for privacy, controlled by you.' Then came the lawsuits, the contractor footage scandal, and the BBC investigation. A Reality Check from someone who bought a pair.
MARCUS WEBB · REVIEW
What Privacy Actually Costs: Proton's Suite After 90 Days of Professional Use
Proton bundles encrypted mail, VPN, storage and passwords for the price of one competitor's password manager. The maths works. The gap in the encryption promise is the part worth knowing first.
MARCUS WEBB · REVIEW
Is Perplexity Pro Still Worth $20 a Month? A Reality Check After the Quiet Throttling
Perplexity Pro was the easy AI subscription recommendation. Then the limits quietly changed. What Pro actually gets you in 2026, what happened in May, and who should still pay.
NICO STRAND · GUIDE
I Built Karpathy's AI Second Brain With Obsidian and Claude Code: Here's Exactly How
Andrej Karpathy says your second brain should be written by an LLM, not by you. A non-developer's real attempt at building the LLM Wiki pattern, including where it got weird.
NICO STRAND · REVIEW
I Cloned My Own Voice With ElevenLabs in an Afternoon: Here's What It Cost and What It Can't Do
ElevenLabs makes voice cloning sound simple. A non-technical test of what it actually takes, what the output is genuinely useful for, and where the limits are.
vsChatGPTMARCUS WEBB · COMPARISON
Grammarly vs ChatGPT for Professional Writing: You Are Probably Paying for the Wrong One
One is an editor, one is a writer, and most professionals subscribe to both while needing one. A 60-day comparison of what each tool actually does to your writing.
MARCUS WEBB · GUIDE
Which AI Model Should You Actually Use? A Working Professional's Guide
GPT, Claude, Gemini, reasoning models, mini models. A practical framework for choosing the right AI model for each task, without the benchmark obsession.
MARCUS WEBB · EXPLAINER
How Much Water Does Your Chatbot Actually Use? The Numbers Behind the Headlines
AI water usage claims range from alarming to dismissive. Here are the actual numbers, where they come from, and what they mean for your daily ChatGPT habit.