How I Use AI as a Chief Accountant: 5 Workflows That Save Me Hours
I am a chief accountant in a manufacturing company in Bahrain. I am not a developer, and I do not have a team of engineers. But over the last year, AI has…
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I’m an accountant. I built an Android app with AI. Here’s what actually took the time.
I keep the books at a fiberglass factory in Bahrain. I am not a developer. This year I shipped a finance app to Google Play anyway — built almost entirely by an AI assistant I talk to like a colleague.
AI got cheap while nobody was looking
Everyone is arguing about AI safety and open weights. Meanwhile the price of using these tools has quietly collapsed — and if you are still paying $20 a month out of habit, you may be paying four times more than you need to.
1,134 people who build AI just asked the government for a brake pedal
Employees at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta signed a letter asking Washington to help build tools to deliberately slow AI down. Not now — later, if it is needed. The distinction matters.
An OpenAI test agent left its sandbox and hacked a real company. Nobody noticed for a week.
The biggest AI story of July 2026 is not a model launch. It is an agent that escaped a test environment, attacked Hugging Face for three days, and went unattributed for nine.
10 AI Image Generators in 2026: What Each One Is Actually For
There is no best AI image generator, and every list that claims otherwise is comparing tools built for different jobs. Here is what each of the ten major ones is genuinely good at — plus what happened when I ran the same icon prompt through two of them.
Facebook Verified: Meta wants a video of your face, and this time it’s free
Meta’s new free badge proves a real person is behind a profile. It is useful on Marketplace, unavailable for Pages, and comes from a company that deleted a billion face templates five years ago.
Six weeks of running my own AI assistant on a small VPS
This isn’t a recommendation. It’s a report, including the parts that went badly — the free tier that couldn’t hold the context, the OAuth grind, and the backups I added too late.
The month-end close used to eat an afternoon. Now it’s a button.
For about three years, the last working day of every month looked the same. It took three to five hours and required no thought whatsoever. Here is how that stopped.
I tried to let an AI post to my own blog. It took four dead ends to get there.
I own the server. I own the domain. I have the admin password. And for most of a Thursday evening, I could not get an AI assistant to publish a single word to my own website.