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Dante Took Hours. The Shahnameh Is Seven Times Bigger. So I Ran 1,000 AI Calls at Once.
The sequel to the cost lesson. Once each unit was cheap, time became the wall. Why massive parallelism was the right bet for a 50,000-couplet epic, what it cost (about €170, and fast), the rate limits it hits, and the auto-backoff that keeps it safe.
$109 of AI Got Me One-Sixth of a Poem. The Fix Cost $25.
A free web reader that keeps books in their original language: hover any word for its meaning in context, click any phrase for grammar plus a translation. And the unit-economics lesson behind it.
I Built a Flashcard App That Verifies Its Own AI
Every card is written by one AI and then checked by a second, independent AI whose only job is to catch the first one being wrong. Free and open source.
I rebuilt Benjamin Franklin's 250-year-old self-improvement system as an app. It's free.
Franklin tracked his character with a notebook and a grid. I rebuilt it this week, made it local-first, and open-sourced it — proof that one person plus a good AI setup can ship a real tool in a week.