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My 30 Favorite Free AI Tools in 2026 — Not a Single Cent Spent, Every One Genuinely Good
Thirty free AI tools across writing, image, video, productivity, research and coding — all genuinely usable without paying, with the catches spelled out.
After 100 AI-Written Articles, Here's the Workflow That Actually Works
After 100 AI-assisted articles, this is the seven-step workflow that survived: outline in passes, inject your own material, then edit for voice.
Six Months Into Claude: 15 Tricks That Genuinely Work, and Most People Don't Know Them
Fifteen Claude tricks from six months of daily use: XML tags, Projects, Artifacts, the reroll habit, plus the 10 prompt templates I run every day.
Prompting Isn't Magic — I Worked Out a Method Anyone Can Learn
How to write prompts that actually work: a learnable method — the 6 core elements, 5 techniques, 3 traps and 10 templates to steal.
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I Tested 7 AI Agent Platforms in 2026 — Honest Rankings, Don't Pick Wrong
We paid for seven AI agent platforms and ran identical real workflows on each one. n8n won on cost and control; two of the seven we would not recommend.