It’s amazing that ChatGPT is just 4 years old and quite frankly the first year it wasn’t that great. Image generation was pretty crappy, it had a ton of hallucinations and other issues but now things are starting to git good. I like to take a retrospective look at things twice a year, half-way through…
Category: Expense Management
VEVO Insect Control & Money Saving Hack!
Now that I’m retired I’m looking more carefully at my spend and the products I use to see if there is a way to optimize what I have or alternatives that I can use. I absolutely love my VEVO insect traps. My front door and back door seem to be magnets for all sorts of…
I Spent $10,000 To Re-Pipe My House
One of the projects I immediately started working on after I retired was fixing up my home. I had put off work on the house ever since COVID. Prior to COVID we had remodeled different parts of our home including the kitchen and bathrooms in the house. After COVID, labor, materials and supplies became so…
Another Price Increase? Goodbye T-Mobile!
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…
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…