Personal takes, experience pieces, and editorial perspectives on AI tools and the industry.
Copilot Cowork went generally available on June 16 with pay-as-you-go pricing layered on top of your Copilot license. I ran my own usage through the calculator and it came back $500–900 a month. Before you panic, here is the optimistic, practical way to think about it — and exactly how to keep the bill sane.
Before I knew anything, I built my wife’s real estate advertising by screenshotting Google Ads, Leadpages, and DNS screens and asking ChatGPT “what’s next?” It was slow, but I learned everything that way. Here is the honest story — and why I still love the tool even as I move on.
I pay full price for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity. Here is how each one earns its keep, which one I am cutting, and the single feature making that decision harder than the math says it should be.