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We tried to tier all 1,370 entries in our own AI directory against the EU AI Act. A keyword scan gave 42 hits, 26 of the...
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What a Tool Listing Cannot Tell You About AI Risk
We set the ten OWASP LLM risk categories against what our directory of 1,366 AI tools actually records. Four have a fiel...
How to Remove the Background from an Image
There are two methods and almost every article pretends there is one. A flood fill removes what matches the background a...
We Went Looking for What AI Is Bad At. We Found a Bill Instead.
Every business owner wants a map of where AI is reliable and where it is not. We built five task types — drafting to spe...
We Tested the Prompting Folklore — 474 Answers Later, Nothing Had Changed
Tell the model it is an expert. Offer it a $200 tip. Threaten it. Say please. Add "let's think step by step". We ran all...
Why AI Cannot Spell — What Image, Video and Voice Models Do Instead
A language model emits one symbol at a time, in order. An image model starts from noise and refines the whole canvas at...
How to Spend Fewer Tokens — and Why That Is the Fourth Thing to Try
Every guide to controlling an AI bill opens by telling you to trim your prompt. We ran the arithmetic over all 27 models...
What Am I Actually Choosing Between? We Sorted 1,347 AI Tools by Shape
The usual answer is five neat categories — chat assistants, copilots, command-line agents, autonomous runtimes, model pr...
Do You Need Fine-Tuning? Two of the Big Three Are Taking It Away
The usual case against fine-tuning is that it is expensive. That case is wrong — a small training run costs about four d...
Using AI in Your Own Language — What the Machine Can Actually See
The same sentence costs seven tokens in English and fifteen in Malay. That gap is usually explained as a money problem;...
SEO When the Answer Is Written for You
Here is our own referrer log. In eight weeks and 214,712 page hits, every AI assistant combined sent 59 visits — against...
How to Choose an AI Tool Without Believing the Marketing
Five checks worth running before you adopt anything, and where each answer actually lives — because none of them are on...
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