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The 4-Rule Fix for Claude Code's Worst Habit: Guessing Instead of Asking

If you use Claude Code (or any AI coding agent) daily, you've probably run into these problems: It assumes what you meant instead of asking, then runs with the wrong assumption It turns a 50-line fix into a 500-line "fr

Open-Source NotebookLM Alternatives: A Developer's Honest Comparison

Google NotebookLM is genuinely impressive. Drop in a pile of PDFs, research papers, or meeting transcripts and it produces grounded summaries, answers with citations, and — its most-talked-about trick — a sur

AI, Agents & NASA

Tonight I attended an AI, Agents & NASA event at Trinity College Dublin. The talks focused on agent-based AI systems, scientific research workflows, and how organizations like NASA are exploring AI to accelerate know

Reddit discussions feel increasingly hard to follow

Lately I’ve been spending more time reading Reddit during outages, breaking product updates, infrastructure incidents, and AI discussions. One thing I keep noticing: The same conversation fragments into dozens of s

How I Cut My LLM Bill to Near Zero Without Changing a Single Line of App Code

I run 14 editorial AI workspaces. Here's how I added a self-hosted LLM proxy to cut paid API calls with no changes to my app code.

🚀 Turn ~800M Free AI Tokens Into a Single OpenAI API

Just discovered a really clever open-source project: FreeLLMAPI The idea is simple but the execution is clean — aggregate free tiers from 14 major AI providers: Google Gemini · Groq · Cerebras &middot

Building an AI Incident Analyst with Gemma 4 for Real-World Alert Fatigue

I’ve been building an automated alert and incident platform for websites and backend services recently. The original goal was simple: receive alerts from applications group duplicate incidents send notificati

Idea2Post Agent Mode: turning a working content SaaS into an autonomous operator with Hermes

What I Built Idea2Post Agent Mode — a new autonomous "Agent" tab inside an already-shipped content SaaS (idea2post.app). The existing product is a one-shot generator: paste an idea, get hooks/blog/social posts

Complete Hermes Agent Setup Guide

Complete Hermes Agent Setup Guide for Idea2Post & mentor.worrk Hermes Agent is one of the fastest ways to turn an AI content tool into an autonomous workflow system. Instead of generating content one prompt at a time

🎙️ OmniVoice Studio — open-source local voice AI workspace for dubbing & cloning

I checked the repo. Before writing the intro, a few things in your draft don't match what's actually in the README — I'll flag them so the English version stays credible: Languages: 600, not 646. README says "600-

Welcome to mentor.work

First post on mentor.work — a quiet log of building software in Europe.