AI Handbook

AI tools, explained by doing

Every page here answers one question: how do I actually do this. No release notes, no hot takes — the tool, the steps, the prompt, the command, and what it costs.

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Deep dive

Why Evergreen Guides Beat AI News, Even on Traffic

News gets the spike and the spike is real. But a page that is wrong in ten days cannot accumulate links, cannot be improved, and cannot carry a paywall. The durable middle ground is a weekly deep dive tied to an evergreen guide.

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Strategy
Publishing

Model

Nimbus 7B

A 7.2B instruction model with an Apache 2.0 licence and an 8K context window. Small enough to run on a single consumer card, and the first open model in a while whose quantised output does not fall apart on structured tasks.

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Text models
Local deployment

Tool

Aurora Canvas

A browser-based image generator aimed at people who need a usable product shot, not a toy demo. The free tier resets monthly and is generous enough to finish one small project before you decide to pay.

Sample
Image generation
Product photography

Tutorial

How to Make an AI Product Photo (Free, 4 Steps)

You need a phone photo of the actual product, a free image-tool account and about fifteen minutes. The whole method is to keep the product frozen and only change light, surface and framing — everything else goes wrong.