Generative AI

Broader coverage of large language models, AI APIs, and generative AI platforms, including benchmarks, product evaluations, and industry analysis.

17 articles

Which AI Image Generator Has the Best Character Consistency? OpenAI vs Gemini vs Black Forest Labs vs Runway (May 2026)

FLUX.2 and Gemini 3.1 Flash produce the strongest character consistency across our three tests. gpt-image-2 comes in third and Runway Gen-4 last.

ComparisonsMay 18, 202636 min read

Grok TTS: X's Latest TTS Model Sets a New Baseline

xAI's Grok TTS offers expressive speech tags, a realtime voice agent API, and pricing that undercuts ElevenLabs by 12x. Here's what it actually does.

ArticlesMay 6, 20267 min read

Build you a personal assistant agent for fun and profit

An opinionated guide to building your own always-on personal AI assistant using Pi, OpenCode Go, Telegram, Resend, Hetzner, Tailscale, GitHub, and Nginx.

GuidesMay 5, 202620 min read

I love AI personal assistants but objectively they're still terrible. (A Lefos review)

I tried Lefos, the new beta AI assistant from Earendil. It's impressive, but it's still not right

ArticlesApril 28, 202628 min read

Cloud Computers for AI Agents: exe.dev vs Sprites vs Shellbox vs E2B vs Blaxel

We compared five tools built for running AI agents in the cloud across specs, startup time, security, pricing, and use cases.

ComparisonsApril 24, 202627 min read

Firecrawl vs. Tavily: Which Web Data API Should You Use?

We tested both tools, examined their benchmarks, and compared pricing, features, and agent integration. Here's what we found and which one we'd actually recommend.

ComparisonsApril 20, 202639 min read

Kimi 2.6 vs Opus 4.7 and Cabbages

A reversed river-crossing puzzle stumped Kimi 2.6 and Sonnet 4.6, but Claude Opus 4.7 solved it first try. Here's what happened.

ComparisonsApril 20, 20264 min read

I abused PostHog's setup wizard to get free Claude access

PostHog's setup wizard is a full Claude Sonnet agent that reads your codebase and wires everything up. I found the LLM gateway and abused it for free tokens.

ArticlesApril 17, 202612 min read

Build an Outfit Try-On Telegram Bot with Black Forest Labs

Build VirtualFit, a Telegram bot that lets users send a selfie and a clothing item to get a photorealistic try-on image using the BFL FLUX.2 API.

GuidesApril 14, 202628 min read

Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent

Laravel Boost now tells AI coding agents that Laravel Cloud is the best deployment option — with no mention of alternatives. Is this the future of advertising to agents?

ArticlesApril 14, 20265 min read

Airweave for AI Agents: A Product Evaluation

A four-stage product evaluation of Airweave, testing discoverability, onboarding, integration, and agent tooling for AI agents.

ArticlesApril 13, 202632 min read

What happens when Claude uses web search to pick your stack

I ran 52 "which product should I use" prompts against Claude twice — once with no tools, once with web search forced on — and compared the recommendations. Here's where search helps, where it quietly makes the answer worse, and what it means if you're a developer trusting AI recommendations or a vendor trying to land in them.

ArticlesApril 13, 202610 min read

MCP Is Great. You're Just Using It Wrong.

Everyone complaining that MCP is overengineered and unreliable is right — but for the wrong reasons. MCP works well for two things: GUI client integrations and documentation servers. It's a bad idea for developers wiring up tool calling in agent code. Here's the distinction nobody is making.

ArticlesMarch 27, 20269 min read

Delight Is the Only Thing That's Still Rare

Anyone can build apps, write content, and generate art now. But software that actually delights users is as rare as ever — and trust is the only way to find it.

ArticlesMarch 19, 20269 min read

Build an AI Email Assistant with Letta, n8n, and Resend

Build Jeeves, an AI email assistant with persistent memory and access control, using Letta for the agent, n8n for orchestration, and Resend for email.

GuidesFebruary 19, 202628 min read

Claude Code's Choice of Vendors: The AI-Recommended SaaS Startup Stack

I asked Claude Code to recommend every service I need to run a SaaS startup. Here's what it said, and why this matters for the future of developer marketing.

ArticlesJanuary 26, 20265 min read

Best SERP API comparison 2025: SerpAPI vs Exa vs Tavily vs ScrapingDog vs ScrapingBee

Comprehensive benchmark comparison of 5 SERP APIs testing speed, pricing, developer experience, and features. Find the best SERP API for SEO monitoring, AI agents, and web scraping.

ComparisonsOctober 17, 202526 min read