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32 articles matching / latest 31 Aug 2026
AI News
You can buy a support agent today that charges 99 cents when it finishes a conversation and nothing when it hands off to a person. On Monday OpenAI started testing the same deal with its biggest customers. The catch is that somebody has to define finished, and it is not you.
Git Articles
Changing one wrong number inside a PDF costs an Acrobat Pro seat at $23.99 a license a month, and cancelling after fourteen days costs you half the remaining year. GenOffice is a four-week-old Apache-2.0 desktop suite that does that job on your own machine, and its fidelity bugs are still open in public.
Git Articles
A 25-person company that wants its password vault on its own server pays Bitwarden $1,800 a year, because self-hosting is an Enterprise feature and the $4 plan is not eligible. Vaultwarden is the independent server the same official Bitwarden apps talk to, it runs on a six-dollar droplet, and it shipped on Saturday.
AI News
On July 30 OpenAI cut its cheap model by 80 percent and left the flagship sitting at $5 and $30. Over the weekend the flagship moved too, quietly, to $4 and $20, with an expiry date printed beside it and the software you actually pay for not a cent cheaper.
AI News
Anthropic's most capable generally available model cannot be run with zero data retention at all, by policy, on any platform. On Wednesday OpenAI announced it is building the machinery specifically so it never has to ask you for that trade. Which vendor holds your client files, and for how long, is now something you can look up before you build.
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.
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.
Git Articles
A ten-person sales team on Salesforce list pricing pays about $21,000 a year, and the thing they are actually renting is not the software. It is the shape of their own business. Twenty puts that shape in a repository you own, and it shipped four releases in two days.
Git Articles
A Figma Full seat costs $16 a month for every person allowed to make something instead of just look at it, and the queue behind the one person who has it is worse than the bill. Open Design is an Apache-2.0 desktop app that hands the making part to a coding agent you already pay for, and it shipped again yesterday.
The daily build
Roughly 60 percent of businesses regret a software purchase within 18 months, and the regret is almost never about the product. It is about the terms. So I built a free ten-question checker that scores the deal before you sign it.
AI News
The free tier just got unlimited text chats and a better default model. For a forty-person shop that had been sizing a seat budget, the number that matters is now how few people actually need one, and the answer is smaller than the rep told you.
Git Articles
A brochure site with a blog, a contact form, and two people allowed to edit it runs about a thousand dollars a year on Webflow before anyone writes a word. Instatic is the MIT-licensed version of that shape, with an AI agent that edits the page, and it is honest enough to tell you it is at version 0.0.14.
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