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Vibecoding News and Updates
The restart is the real cost of building this way: forty minutes re-explaining your project to a session that forgot it, and a second full-price bill for words the machine already read. Five Claude Code releases in seven days went at that problem, and not one of them was about the model.
Git Articles
Microsoft 365 Copilot runs $18 a user a month on an annual commitment, on top of the Microsoft 365 licence you already pay for, and what it hands back is a draft somebody still has to open and finish. OpenWorker is an MIT-licensed desktop app that connects to the same inbox, calendar and CRM and is built around finishing the job instead.
AI News
The supplier portal your team re-keys by hand every week is the one system nobody could ever automate, because it has no API and the screen-scraping bot broke every time the vendor moved a button. On Wednesday that stopped being true, and the thing it replaces costs $215 a month per concurrent job.
Git Articles
Intercom charges 99 cents every time its AI resolves a conversation, and it counts a resolution even when the bot gives up and hands the customer to a human. Chatwoot is the MIT-licensed desk that shipped a release overnight, and the thing it actually deletes is the meter, not the seat.
Git Articles
Ten people who need to make a diagram costs $2,400 a year on Miro's Business tier, and most of those diagrams never get made anyway. Diagram Design is an MIT-licensed skill that draws them inside the coding agent you already pay for, and it went past 22,000 stars in a week.
AI News
Every build-it-yourself piece in this archive priced the box at twelve to twenty dollars a month. Memory is up as much as 500 percent in twelve months because AI data centers bought the supply, hosting providers have raised prices three times this year, and the build math still wins. Just not on every project it used to.
Foundational AI: Do's and Don'ts
The six-step flow that has handled every inbound lead for two years costs about two thousand tasks a month and never surprises you. Every vendor now wants you to rebuild it as an agent. The test for whether you should is one sentence long, and the vendors published it themselves.
Git Articles
Ten people taking customer calls costs $1,680 a year at Granola's Business tier and $3,600 at Otter's, and every minute of audio lands on somebody else's server. Anarlog records and transcribes on the laptop that is already in the room, MIT licensed, with no bot in the participant list.
Git Articles
Twenty-five people who need to open one internal tool costs $6,000 a year on Power Apps Premium. ToolJet builds the same screen on a server you rent, and the free self-hosted build stops at exactly two apps and two builders, which is in the licensing docs and not in the README.
Git Articles
Ten people on Superhuman and Linear alone costs $5,880 a year, and all it buys is an inbox and a task board. Macro does email, chat, docs, tasks, calls and CRM out of one app for $40 a seat, and it moved to the AGPL in May, which means the escape hatch is written into the license.
AI News
A twelve-person team pays about $2,880 a year for a tool whose actual job is putting a usable view on data that already lives in a spreadsheet. Google now builds that view from one sentence and writes changes back to the sheet, and it fixes none of the reasons the spreadsheet was a bad system of record.
Foundational AI: Do's and Don'ts
Three renewals this quarter, three new AI lines, priced anywhere from twenty nine dollars flat to a hundred and twenty five per seat. Which ones to pay for has almost nothing to do with how good the AI is.
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