Every developer building on AI APIs hits the same wall eventually. The problem with comparing AI pricing What the tool does Token count, word count, character count No signup. No account. No data sent anywhere. Everything runs in your browser. What surprised me about the pricing differences Why I built it in a weekend Go try it AI API Cost Calculator It's free, it's fast, and it might save you fro
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On May 7, 2026 — five days from now — OpenAI removes the Realtime API beta. If you have a voice agent, transcription pipeline, or any WebSocket/WebRTC integration with gpt-4o-realtime-preview, you have a long weekend's worth of work to do, and most of it isn't the part the migration guide warns about. The loud failures are easy. The WebSocket returns 401, the WebRTC connection won't establish, you
You know that feeling when your AI agent starts burning through your API budget at 3 AM and you only find out the next morning? Yeah, we've all been there. The observability space for LLM applications has exploded in recent years, but most platforms either lock you into their ecosystem or charge you per-token like it's liquid gold. Let's talk about building a real-time monitoring strategy that doe
If you've spent any time building with local LLMs, you've probably hit the same wall I have: your model confidently tells you something that is completely, verifiably wrong. Ask it about a recent API change, a specific library version, or any fact that requires up-to-date knowledge, and you're rolling dice. The core problem isn't that these models are dumb. It's that they're frozen in time. And fo
Mobile tests are where the bugs actually live. A signup flow that works on an iPhone 15 falls apart on a lower-end Android because the keyboard pushes a button off-screen. A push notification mid-flow leaves the app in a state nothing else reproduces. Memory pressure on a four-year-old Android does things you can't make a simulator do. I wrote simulator-only tests anyway, for years. Real-device ru
VotePath -- an AI-powered multilingual voting guide for first-time voters. The Problem: Why Don't People Vote? What is VotePath? 🤖 Gemini-Powered AI Assistant: A conversational AI built with the Google Gemini API that answers specific election queries in real-time. 🛠️ The Tech Stack Building the UI components and wiring up the Gemini SDK went smoothly using an intent-driven development approach.
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