I'm Palak Patel, an IT engineer and developer. ToolNest covers the software I work with: what it costs, where it broke, and the sources behind every claim, with the date I checked them.
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AI for Professionals2 min read
I gave Claude chapter PDFs for classes 6, 7 and 8 plus a few of my own questions. It wrote 50 with answers, easy to hard. Some repeated, reworded.
AI for Professionals2 min read
I used both for research questions and email drafts. Free ChatGPT won because it always answered. DeepSeek sometimes said its server was busy, and slow replies took 10 to 30 seconds.
updated AI for Professionals2 min read
I built a parent-student app on Replit Agent in 10 to 15 prompts over about 4 to 5 hours. It checked its own work and suggested the next task. One feature took several retries.
AI for Professionals2 min read
OpenAI retires custom GPTs on 11 December 2026. I set up a free Claude Project for a chartered accountant instead, and its knowledge filled after 4 to 6 of his files.
AI for Professionals1 min read
Setup took under 10 minutes. The graphic it made was fine, but it couldn't pull up the specific template I wanted, so I used a generic one instead.
AI for Professionals2 min read
I ran a draft through Grammarly's free plan before publishing. It surfaced one suggestion per paragraph at a time, not every issue, so I switched to a manual read for the rest.
AI for Professionals2 min read
The Gmail connector I set up for a doctor drafted a reply with an incorrect medication dose. He caught it on review, before it went out.
AI for Professionals2 min read
I set up DeepSeek Coder in Ollama for coding. It took 2 to 3 hours, each reply took 30 to 120 seconds, and one answer used a function that does not exist.
AI for Professionals2 min read
Higgsfield says connecting it to Claude takes about a minute. Mine took 30 to 40 minutes. After that I made a 5-minute video straight from the Claude app.
AI for Professionals2 min read
I connected Gmail, Calendar and Drive to Claude Pro for a doctor. It saved about 30 minutes a day, and the usage limit ran out on busy clinic days.
AI for Professionals2 min read
I used Claude Code for small parts of this site, paid per token through the API, and wrote most of the code myself. Here is where it helped, where it cost me time, and who it suits.
AI for Professionals1 min read
Higgsfield's free tier gives you 10 credits. I found out one video generation spends all of them, so the free allowance is really a single clip.
AI for Professionals3 min read
I ran out of Cursor requests sooner than I thought, so I added my own OpenAI key. Chat and the agent carried on, Tab autocomplete did not, and the key ran me about $10 a day.
AI for Professionals2 min read
I connected Gmail, Drive and Calendar for a chartered accountant with about 5 years of mail. The searching is the point, and incomplete searching is the thing nobody warns you about.
AI for Professionals2 min read
Three months of Search Console for a small site, with the real numbers: 1.2% of the people shown a link clicked it, and 23 of the 25 who did were in one country.
AI for Professionals2 min read
The memory use is what made me look. What survived the clear-out was a content blocker and one developer tool, and I have not missed anything I took off.
AI for Professionals3 min read
If time blocking is supposed to make the day predictable, mine fails most of the time. It is still worth doing, for a reason that has nothing to do with the estimates being right.
AI for Professionals2 min read
Opus 5.5 costs 60% less than Fable 5.1 on the API. On my Pro plan I code with Opus and write with Fable, and Opus hit the usage limit first.
AI for Professionals2 min read
The steps to connect Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Drive to Claude, what each one can reach, and the Google permission screen that slowed me down.
updated AI for Professionals3 min read
Every article says Next.js caches fetch by default. On 16.3.1 it does not, caching is opt-in. You still get stale data, for a different reason, and that is why the usual fix does not work.