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How to Avoid Wasting Credits on Cursor AI When You’re Stuck Someone recently asked me how to avoid getting into those repetitive loops where you just keep hitting “Run” in Cursor AI without making any real progress, and worse, you’re burning through credits while the bug still isn’t solved. This happens more often than we…
Is Google finally going to start to decline? They have dominated search, and along with it, paid ad advertising, for more than a decade. Apple published to report for April 2025 that users of Safari used google search less than a year ago, and it was the first time this has happened in a couple…
Interesting story where Meta torrented nearly 100 TB of books from the pirate site LibGen and Z-library. This is virtually ALL books. It would follow that they will be using this to populate their database that powers their AI so that it has access to all of humankind’s published works. And of course it says…
Last night I installed the new LLM chat tool called DeepSeek, and I found it to be quite awesome! First of all, it is much faster at replying and you don’t have to sit there and wait for it so long. And second, the answers are very well written and verbose. There’s also the ability…
I’ve been getting some messages from my Chinese friends that everybody is switching from TikTok, over to a Little Red Book 小红书. I’ve used it before and this is something I thought about a long time ago when they first started talking about banning TikTok. They were already way ahead of us. What’s interesting about…
Is it just me or is Facebook putting more ads inside the feeds these days? When I scroll down, I feel like there’s more ads than before. I just to comment on this kind of thing… Sometimes a company can dominate the market for quite a number of years. But I think we’re probably gonna…
So after hearing some good things about Replit, I decided to give it a try. It’s basically an AI application for building apps and writing software. At first, I was really excited about it because it quickly got together a lot of the needed libraries and file structure and got everything set up pretty good…
One improvement that I haven’t seen mentioned by many is the improvements ChatGPT is making on a wider and wider array of languages in terms of spoken language. Just a month ago, I tested it on Thai and Cantonese languages, and it’s spoken language was terrible. But now it is sounding pretty good. It’s really…
I just made an interesting discovery about how Google’s Core Web Vitals can impact AdSense earnings—and it’s not what I expected! Here’s what I’ve noticed: After I fix page experience issues (like improving load speed or visual stability), my earnings don’t increase immediately. But when I ask Google to recheck my Core Web Vitals through…