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Can you describe your personal and work AI spending and platforms?

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Craig

Work requires thousands in cloud/ChatGPT/multi-platform integration; personally $20 Anthropic, $20 ChatGPT, $100 GrokBot; considering Cursor. Also using Granola and evaluating Shadow to prevent cost overruns on pay-per-use platforms.

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37:53my my screen just went blank uh i'm not sure what happened i think my browser just crashed anyway I for AI I've got work and I've got personal and for work we need to integrate all sorts of AI platforms so we've got we're spending thousands on you know cloud on chat GPT and a bunch of others but for personal I have a $20 account with with Anthropic for cloud

38:2620 or so for chat GPT. And more recently, I did the $100 deal for GrokBot. And I might switch to cursor as well. I don't need the IDE, but I can't really justify 100. I'm splitting that with work, But I really want to explore more of this bot thing. I'm also using tools for like Granola to do meeting notes and whatnot, although I'm looking at switching out to use Shadow

39:05and a bunch of other sort of AI monitoring type things because some of these costs can go crazy if you're not watching out for it. especially on the work side because they you pay for everything you use but that's about what i use that's cool and uh guy you want to come back in yeah yesterday i had maxed out the max plan and

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