Author: Max Li
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Why I Moved My AI Agent from Cloudflare to Hetzner (and Saved $30/mo)
A few weeks ago, I shared a guide on how to run OpenClaw on Cloudflare for what I thought would be a flat $5/month. While the "serverless" promise is enticing, three weeks of real-world usage taught me a hard lesson about hidden costs and rate limits. If you are looking for a high-performance AI agent […]
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How to Run Your Own AI Agent on Cloudflare for $5 (No Servers Required)
Let’s be real: paying $20/month for every AI tool adds up fast. But what if you could run your own powerful, personalized AI assistant for just $5 a month? That’s exactly what OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot) allows you to do. It’s an open-source AI agent that runs entirely on Cloudflare Workers. It’s fast, it’s private, and […]
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The OpenClaw Bible: A Masterclass in Building Your Own 24/7 AI Agent
Introduction: The Death of the Chatbot For the past three years, we have been living in the era of the "Chatbot." We’ve grown accustomed to the routine: open a browser tab, log in to ChatGPT or Claude, type a prompt, and wait for a reply. It’s brilliant, yes—but it’s also remarkably passive. These models are […]
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Meet Ralph Wiggum: The Chaotic AI Loop That Writes Code While You Sleep
If you’ve been lurking around the AI engineering watercoolers (aka X or Reddit) lately, you might have heard developers whispering about "Ralph Wiggum." No, they aren’t quoting The Simpsons ("My cat’s breath smells like cat food"). They are talking about a brute-force AI coding technique that is quietly changing how we interact with autonomous agents. […]
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From Vibe to Glory: Launching My First 2026 App in Under 4 Hours
It is January 2nd, 2026. While most of the world is still shaking off the New Year’s Eve fog or contemplating resolutions they’ll break by Tuesday, I’ve already shipped. A few weeks ago, I laid out a manifesto for the year: Vibe Coding: How I Build Revenue-Generating Apps at Speed. I made a public commitment […]
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Vibe Coding: How I Build Revenue-Generating Apps at Speed (and My 2026 Challenge)
They call it "Vibe Coding." Some people still think it’s just hype; I think it’s the most liberating shift in software development I’ve seen in a decade. As we close out 2025, the debate between "AI will replace us" and "AI is useless" is officially over. The reality is somewhere in the productive middle: AI […]
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Claude Opus 4.5 vs. Gemini 3 Pro vs. GPT-5.1: The 2025 Frontier Model Showdown
The AI landscape has shifted again. Just when we thought we knew the hierarchy, Anthropic dropped Claude Opus 4.5, effectively kicking over the table. If you are a developer, a CTO, or a power user, you aren’t just looking for "smart"—you’re looking for ROI. You want to know which model will refactor your legacy code […]
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The Code Wars: Antigravity, Cursor, and VS Code Battle for the Future of AI Development
The development world is rapidly evolving past simple line completion. The choice of an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is no longer solely about feature sets. Instead, adopting an IDE today is about choosing a strategic philosophy: augmentation, assistance, or full agentic delegation. We are analyzing the three platforms leading this revolution: the ubiquitous Visual Studio […]
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From Blank Screens to AI-Powered Coding: How I Went from Writing Every Line by Hand to Shipping Apps with Cursor, Claude, and More
A year ago, my coding workflow looked like what most developers are used to: Staring at blank screens Writing boilerplate code by hand Wrestling with database setups, API integrations, and front-end logic until things finally worked Fast forward to today, and everything feels different. In the past month, I’ve launched two apps on the App […]
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Vibe Coding: The Future of Development is Here (and It’s Conversational!)
In the ever-evolving landscape of software development, a revolutionary approach is taking hold, promising to democratize coding and accelerate innovation: Vibe Coding. Coined by renowned AI researcher Andrej Karpathy in early 2025, this method moves beyond traditional syntax and complex programming languages, embracing natural language as the primary interface for building software. But what exactly […]