I Built a YouTube Shorts Clipper for $0.65
Cheap AI models replace paid services. I built a $0.65 YouTube Shorts clipper that turns long videos into vertical, captioned Shorts.
The era of bespoke software starts today.
AI is far cheaper than most people realize — and it's here to stay. Its best use case is programming, which means learning to leverage these tools is the skill that matters now. Building your own software, running on your machine, is suddenly trivial. But it's not magic: you still can't vibe your way to success.
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$0.40 in tokens spent: watch DeepSeek V4 Pro building Adobe Lightroom clone
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Cheap tokens, cheap laptops, and the end of the CS gatekeeping era.
Hardware H.264 Decoding on Fedora 43 and 44 — The Fresh-Install Recipe
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Displaying 100K Rows Without Lag: wxListCtrl Virtual Mode
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