📰 Dev.to · Henry Godnick

Last month I opened an AI bill and felt that very specific founder panic: the kind that happens when...

A few months into building with Claude, I realized I had a dumb habit: I only checked AI spend after...

I thought I was being smart. Every time I opened a new chat with Claude or GPT-4, I'd paste in the...

Last month I had a weird realization: I was shipping less, using AI less deliberately, and somehow...

Everyone's vibe coding right now. You prompt, the AI writes, you ship. It's legitimately amazing. I...

I've been building solo for about eight months now, and for most of that time I had zero visibility...

I've been building with LLMs for about two years now. Claude, GPT-4, Gemini — I rotate through them...

I used to think I had a handle on my AI spending. I had a rough mental model: Claude is cheap, GPT-4...

Everyone who builds with AI eventually hits the same moment. You're deep in a coding session. Claude...

A few weeks ago I got surprised by an AI bill and built TokenBar because I wanted a dead-simple way...

A surprise AI bill is what pushed me to build TokenBar, but that wasn't actually the most expensive...

A lot of AI products feel like they were priced by a VC spreadsheet. You land on the site, see a...

A few weeks ago I got hit with an AI bill that was way higher than I expected. That part was real,...

A few weeks ago I had one of those dumb founder moments. I was happily using Claude and other LLM...

A few months back I got my monthly API bill and felt sick. I had been vibe-coding pretty hard with...

If you work with Kubernetes, Terraform, or any flavor of cloud infrastructure on a Mac, your workflow...

When you become a parent, your relationship with side projects changes overnight. That marathon...

Sprints are all about shipping fast with minimal friction. But most developer tooling guides ignore...

If you build for both macOS and iOS, your workflow is different from most developers. You're juggling...

We talk a lot about productivity tools. How to ship faster, automate more, squeeze extra hours out of...

You've been building things for years — side projects, tutorials, open-source contributions. But...

If you're a developer at a startup — or building your own thing — you're not just writing code....

Big tech companies spend millions on developer tools. But some of the best Mac software I use daily...

When you're building an MVP, speed is everything. You don't need a 47-tab Notion setup or a Jira...