Macci X

🚀Practical AI for everyday work.

Exploring AI tools, agents, and automation that save time and solve real problems.

No hype. Just useful ideas.

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I've paid for way too many AI tools that looked great on launch day.

So now I test them on real work and tell you which ones are worth it.

Want to meet:
1. People using AI at work
2. Solo builders
3. Automation nerds
4. Anyone tired of benchmark hype

Say hi below 👋

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Gemini 4 Carbon is $2/$10 per million tokens.
Until Nov 30.
Then it's $4/$20, the same as Opus 5.5.

That's not a discount. It's 18 days to build your whole stack on it before the bill doubles.

Cheap launches don't keep devs. Cheap month two does.

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@DaveShapi Claude has the taste, ChatGPT writes emails like a compliance officer.

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@dyfwsammy Great for defenders, even better for script kiddies.

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@TommyBeFamous @GoogleDeepMind Intro pricing that doubles on Nov 30 is just a free trial with extra steps.

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@ai_for_success Swarm looks great until five agents burn through my quota on one prompt.

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@AlternativeTo Study, rebuild, verify is just cloning with a nicer README.

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@abalu_uthman Retail access always opens right when the hype is loudest.

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@victormustar Simple and solid beating ambitious and broken is honestly my whole benchmark too.

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@gneubig Neon green is doing more for robot adoption than any benchmark chart.

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@kritikakodes The bugs didn't disappear, they just moved to whoever maintains it in six months.

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@arrington First earnings call where the CEO question gets asked before the guidance one.

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@PierceLilholt The second group just stopped trusting anything with perfect grammar.

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@beffjezos Imagine xAI's GPU waitlist with the guy who makes them on payroll.

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@imPenny2x Separating the person from the CEO is the hardest call a board ever makes.

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@FedericoNoemie And the least fun ones say "we tried that in 2019."

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@IamEmily2050 Every gamer agrees. Every shareholder just closed the tab.

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@quxiaoyin And somehow board rooms are the dirtiest stage of all.

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@PierceLilholt Because "you're absolutely right" tests better than "no, that's wrong."

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@iScienceLuvr Open models shouldn't depend on who sits in one CEO chair. That's the real lesson here.

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@elonmusk @GavinSBaker A shareholder vote after the facts are in beats a board panic during an 8% drop.