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AI assistants, coding agents, apps and games, used for real work before I write a word. Expect honest verdicts, what each tool costs, and who should skip it.

139 reviews, guides and tips

How to Use Gemini: A Practical First-Day Guide

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How to Use Gemini: A Practical First-Day Guide

Gemini is Google's consumer chat assistant (gemini.google.com), a mobile assistant on Android, and a developer platform with Google AI Studio and a Gemini API…

How to Use Claude: A Practical First-Day Guide

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How to Use Claude: A Practical First-Day Guide

Claude is Anthropic's assistant, and 'how to use Claude' covers more ground than most people realize: a chat surface, an Artifacts panel for standalone…

How to Use vLLM: A Practical First-Day Guide

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How to Use vLLM: A Practical First-Day Guide

vLLM is the high-throughput, memory-efficient LLM inference and serving engine out of UC Berkeley. This guide walks a first-day user from picking the right…

How to Use Cursor: The Practical Starter Guide

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How to Use Cursor: The Practical Starter Guide

Learn how to use Cursor from install through your first Agent task: install the editor on macOS, Windows, or Linux, open Agent with Cmd+I,…

How to Use ChatGPT: The Practical Starter Guide

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How to Use ChatGPT: The Practical Starter Guide

Learn how to use ChatGPT from your first chat through modes, tools, memory, projects, custom GPTs, and scheduled tasks, grounded in OpenAI's docs.

How AI Agent Safety Testing Actually Works

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How AI Agent Safety Testing Actually Works

A plain-language walkthrough of AI agent safety testing: how AISI red-teams frontier models, what the Inspect sandbox does, and what incidents mean.