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Git Articles
Fifty people with one company login costs about $3,600 a year on Okta's cheapest tier, or $4,200 on Microsoft's. authentik does the same job on an eighteen-dollar server, and the release that went to beta this week is the first version the OpenID Foundation has certified.
The daily build
Most automation advice tells you where to start in theory. We built an in-browser triage instrument that ranks repetitive operational tasks by annual cost, fragility under load, and rule consistency.
Foundational AI: Do's and Don'ts
The build took a Friday afternoon. The part nobody warned you about is the two decisions that come after it, and neither one is code: who can open the thing, and whether it is allowed to be the only place a number lives.
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.
AI News
Plugging an AI assistant into your CRM takes about four minutes now, down from a six-week engineering ticket. A scan of 25,000 of those connectors published this week found flaws in 73 percent of them, which is the first real price tag on the review that ticket used to include.
The daily build
Your renewal letter went up 40 percent and someone in the room is already pricing the alternative. The number nobody puts in that spreadsheet is your own team's hours, which is usually the number that decides it. I built a calculator that counts them, and that is willing to tell you to stay.
Git Articles
Hiring your 26th person takes a Jira bill from $2,250 a year to $4,550 for the identical product, because annual plans are billed in bands. Kaneo is the MIT-licensed board that does the same job on a twelve-dollar server, and the thing it shipped yesterday matters more than the price.
AI News
Every content-safety tool on the market ships with somebody else's list of what counts as unsafe, and not one of those lists has "never quote a flat rate on a job that needs a site visit" on it. Mistral released a 3B model on Tuesday, free, that takes your rule as an English sentence at the moment you ask.
Git Articles
A 25-person team on Slack Pro pays about $2,175 a year for a place to talk, and the bill climbs with every hire. Chatto is a single self-hosted binary that does the same job for the cost of a small server, roughly $120 a year, flat.
Foundational AI: Do's and Don'ts
It is not the row count. A spreadsheet stops being good enough the moment two people can both be right about the same number, and that day arrives years before the file gets slow.
Git Articles
Cloning the owner's voice for training videos and phone prompts costs $299 a month at the tier that gives a team three clones and thirty hours of audio. Voicebox does it on a laptop, MIT licensed, and the voice sample never leaves the building.
AI News
The EU transparency rules went live on Sunday, and for a normal small business the whole obligation is about forty minutes of unpaid work. The part nobody is saying out loud: the moment you build the customer-facing bot yourself instead of buying one, the duty moves off your vendor's desk and onto yours.
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