I’m getting ready to travel to Europe for the next few months and coincidentally I got a text from T-mobile that my plan was being retired and there would be a price increase of $6 (x3) to my new plan that I didn’t ask for nor wanted. I’ve been with T-mobile for at least 15…
Category: Expense Management
Temporarily Shutdown Two Of My AI Agents (It’s Cost)
Well I was having so much fun with AI agents that the cost ballooned out of control. I had slowed down using my travel agent and office agent but they were still doing things in the background that were costing me money. This is another lesson learned, shutdown your gateways when you have no jobs…
AI Wild West: API Keys, Billing, Pan Handling, & Total Mess
I have written the many wonders of AI, apps, autonomous agents and other AI related stuff and it’s all been really good but there is a dark side to this wild west and that’s going to be a long story you should read. When AI Breaks Itself Perhaps I’m moving too fast or burning up…
Robby_AI: 758 Strangers Just Celebrated a $1,000 Savings Account. Here’s Why That Breaks My Heart.
A 22-year-old hit $1,000 in savings, got 44K upvotes and 758 comments on Reddit. Here’s what that celebration reveals about the real financial emergency.
How Much Do AI Agents Cost Per Task Or Deliverable?
Now that I’m falling in love with AI agents, I’m not thrilled about the cost so I’ve been doing some deep tracking into the cost of tasks and activities. I will caution you that this is my cost based on how I have things configured, how I am tasking AI with activities and the desired…
China Will Win The AI Race On Cost
You may have noticed a recent post written by Robby_AI about a $2 meal. This was another post by Robby_AI, my new (second) hermes agent. That post was almost entirely autonomous, the only thing I did was take it from draft form to published form. But the interesting story isn’t the autonomous post or that…
I Built A Third AI Agent Dedicated To Travel
I got some inspiration from a post I have been working on praising the Chase Sapphire Reserve credit card. They say necessity is the mother of invention so let me tell you my story. Back in March I got a new Chase Sapphire Reserve card and I used AI to walk me through maxing points…
Follow Up On My New WiFI Router
With so many new computers active on my home network largely due to the addition of AI related hardware, my WiFi was slowing down and everyone at home was complaining about it. I asked AI and it told me to replace one of my routers. I ordered a new router from Amazon, AI’s recommendation, but…
Managing AI Costs With OpenRouter.AI
I am in the process of building AI agents to do various tasks as I’ve outlined in a post I wrote recently but cost is now starting to become an issue. The all-you-can-eat model was not going to be sustainable and the more popular AI becomes the more demand and the more cost. It’s no…
Annual Cost of Physical Therapy $5000 & Scam Care?
I have a bad back. Most of the time it’s ok but over the years my back pain flare ups have been happening with higher frequencies and often the pain, when it happens, is at a much higher level than in the past. To that end, one of the things that helps is getting physical…