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Stop Turning On “Think Harder” For Everything

Stop Turning On “Think Harder” For Everything Most people using AI tools leave reasoning mode on because it feels safer. The button says the model will think more. Why would you not want that? Because most of the work you are asking an AI to do does ...

Apr 29 · 3 min readsignalpulse.hashnode.dev

GitHub Copilot Changed the Deal. That Is the Whole Lesson.

GitHub Copilot Changed the Deal. That Is the Whole Lesson. GitHub Copilot Pro+ used to feel like a cheat code. For $40/month, you could get access to models that would have cost meaningfully more if you were paying direct API prices. Not because you ...

Apr 29 · 6 min readsignalpulse.hashnode.dev

The Best $40 Addendum: I Tried 14 Copilot Subs and Custom Wrappers — Here's What Actually Works

The Best $40 Addendum: I Tried 14 Copilot Subs and Custom Wrappers — Here's What Actually Works After I published the original article, I got the expected responses: "what about running multiple accounts?" and "what about modifying the wrapper?" and ...

Apr 28 · 6 min readsignalpulse.hashnode.dev

One Developer, 10 Client Sites, Zero Manual QA

My Breaking Apps Hackathon entry: how I use Passmark + Playwright + OpenRouter to regression test every DreamSiteBuilders.com client portfolio site in plain English. The problem I run DreamSiteBuilders.com. One solo dev, growing portfolio of live cl...

Apr 16 · 4 min readsignalpulse.hashnode.dev

Why I Built My Entire Business on Vercel (And What I'd Change)

Why I Built My Entire Business on Vercel (And What I'd Change) A freelance web dev's honest review after 13+ production deployments. The Setup I run DreamSiteBuilders.com — a one-person web dev shop building sites for local businesses. Every site sh...

Apr 16 · 3 min readsignalpulse.hashnode.dev

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Stop Turning On “Think Harder” For Everything

GitHub Copilot Changed the Deal. That Is the Whole Lesson.

The Best $40 Addendum: I Tried 14 Copilot Subs and Custom Wrappers — Here's What Actually Works

One Developer, 10 Client Sites, Zero Manual QA

Why I Built My Entire Business on Vercel (And What I'd Change)

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vonb's blogs

Stop Turning On “Think Harder” For Everything

GitHub Copilot Changed the Deal. That Is the Whole Lesson.

The Best $40 Addendum: I Tried 14 Copilot Subs and Custom Wrappers — Here's What Actually Works

One Developer, 10 Client Sites, Zero Manual QA

Why I Built My Entire Business on Vercel (And What I'd Change)