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The Vercel AI Gateway provides unified access to AI providers with pass-through pricing. But when debugging image handling issues while switching from OpenAI to Anthropic, the abstraction layer made troubleshooting harder. Sometimes clarity beats convenience.

How to handle image uploads to Claude Sonnet's API: solving the 5 MB limit with image resizing to 1568 pixels and proper EXIF orientation handling for mobile devices. Built while developing food tracking for zurzai.com.

Lessons from building a $350K AI headshot business: What do we owe large faceless corporations like Reddit and Google versus what do we owe our fellow humans using those platforms? The tactics that built Multiverse AI force us to confront that tension.

How switching zurzai.com from OpenAI API to Claude API delivered dramatically faster responses for complex health tracking queries. The Claude API is 3 to 4 times as fast, especially for complex queries analyzing multiple dimensions of health data.

When it comes to embedded development for the Arduino Uno, not all AI coding assistants are created equal. I recently put OpenAI's ChatGPT5 and Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5 head-to-head on several Arduino projects. Short version: Claude is the clear winner when it comes to embedded development.

Updates to Zurzai.com — you can now run long-range chat analyses with 30 or 60 days of data, and there’s a new progress modal so you know what’s happening during heavier requests.

Today I learned how to make a Claude skill using the Cursor AI code assistant, used GitHub Copilot agent to help build this site, and tracked food and activities with Zurzai.com. Overall, a productive day on the AI front!

Interesting with model first development: I've been practicing my Japanese and decided to enter exercise, weight, and lunch in the Zurzai calorie tracking app I've been building and using. Without any extra prompting it interpreted it all exactly as intended...

Unpopular opinion. Maybe. I don't want an AI generated follow up email. AI is a great tool and I use it all day every day. But it is not ok to masquerade as a human...