The story of building Aroi Care — a bilingual EN/TH AI food-safety advisor — from a one-line idea to a live app with a Gemini-powered analysis pipeline, two-tier caching, and a hard budget kill switch.
A Technology Polymath who has spent 20 years telling clients to embrace AI finally turns the mirror on himself. What followed was a zero-server, near-zero-cost blog built almost entirely with Claude — and only mildly embarrassing.
The forty open browser tabs aren’t a to-do list. They’re forty tiny unpaid debts, each one whispering that you’re behind. Once a week, forgive them all.
An autonomous trading agent that can’t stop itself isn’t automated — it’s unsupervised. The circuit breaker is the least glamorous and most important line of code you’ll write.
Traditional caches only recognise a question they’ve seen letter for letter. Semantic caching recognises meaning — and for the thousandth shopper asking ‘does this run small?’ in slightly different words, that difference is most of your bill.
A two-minute weekly habit that quietly rewrites how you’re perceived — and how you see yourself.
Language models can turn a flood of headlines into a tradable mood score — but the edge lives in the plumbing, not the model.
The first cloud bill that made a CFO flinch was for servers nobody remembered switching on. The next one is for tokens — and the discipline that tames it is one we already learned a decade ago. A deeper field guide to AI FinOps.
