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Practical guides for engineers who ship AI.
Step-by-step builds with free AI tools, what just shipped in AI and why it matters, and Forward Deployed Engineer playbooks on interviews, pay and client work.
Step-by-step builds using free AI tools & LLMs.
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Build Guides
Build a Screenshot-to-Code Agent Using Gemini Vision Free Tier & Playwright
Turn UI screenshots into clean HTML/CSS with a free CLI agent. We wire Playwright to Google Gemini Vision's free tier so you can go from pixel to code in seconds.
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Build a YouTube-to-Blog Repurposing Agent Using Whisper and Gemini Free Tier
Engineer a zero-cost content repurposing pipeline: download YouTube audio with yt-dlp, transcribe with OpenAI Whisper, and generate SEO-ready blog posts via Google Gemini's free tier. Full Python code included.
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Build a PR Review Bot That Comments on GitHub PRs with a Free LLM
Ship an automated code reviewer that spots bugs, security flaws, and style issues on every pull request. Uses GitHub Actions, Cloudflare Workers AI free tier, and Octokit—zero cost, full control.
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Build a Notion Knowledge Assistant with Free LLMs and RAG
Index your entire Notion workspace using the API, store embeddings in Pinecone's free tier, and build a RAG chatbot with Groq's Llama 3.1 8B. Full code, zero cost.
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Build a Free Lead Enrichment Agent from Domains (OpenRouter + Playwright)
Build a hands-on lead enrichment agent that scrapes company websites from a CSV of domains, then enriches each with AI summaries and ICP scoring—all using free-tier tools.
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Build an AI Cron: Turn RSS Feeds Into a Personalized Morning Newsletter
Use Ollama, n8n, and Hugging Face’s free tier to build a scheduled AI pipeline that fetches RSS feeds, summarizes articles locally, and emails you a custom digest every morning.
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Build a GitHub Issue Triager With Free LLMs: Auto-Label, Route Bugs
Ship a GitHub App that classifies issues, applies labels, and routes bugs using Groq’s free LLM tier and Cloudflare Workers AI. Full step-by-step with code, no paid tools required.
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Build a Free Competitor Monitoring Agent with Playwright and Groq
Build an autonomous agent that scrapes competitor websites, diffs changes, and summarizes updates using Playwright and Groq's free Llama tier. Complete with Supabase storage.
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Build a Gmail AI Agent to Triage Inbox & Draft Replies with Free LLMs
Ship a free Gmail AI agent that labels, prioritizes, and drafts one-click-send replies using the Gmail API and Google Gemini free tier—hosted on Vercel. No credit card needed.
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