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Products I paid for and actually ran, with the price, the limits and the failures
Products I paid for and actually ran, with the price, the limits and the failures
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Seedance 2.5 Hands-On: 725 Credits Buy 27 Seconds, and the CLI Costs Extra
A ¥69/month membership buys 725 credits — enough for 27 seconds of finished video, about ¥2.5 per second. The Dreamina CLI needs the ¥998/month premium tier, which is where my agent-driven pipeline stopped. Three blockers, one cost calculation done on what I actually paid, and four things wrong with the subtitles.
Claude Code vs Gemini CLI vs Aider: Which Terminal Coding Agent Should You Use in 2026?
A working comparison of the three major terminal coding agents as of mid-2026: Claude Code's autonomous agent loop, Gemini CLI's open-source free tier (and its Antigravity turbulence), and Aider's git-native pair programming. Comparison matrix, honest strengths and weaknesses, and a decision framework.
Claude Code vs Cursor vs Amazon Q: One Year Honest Review
After a year of daily AI-assisted coding — what actually works, what doesn't, and which tool wins for what.