<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>practical — NestFrontier</title><description>Technical AI analysis and research on practical.</description><link>https://nestfrontier.com/</link><item><title>Your AI agent burns $2 per click. The API version costs $0.05.</title><link>https://nestfrontier.com/your-ai-agent-burns-dollar2-per-click-the-api-version-costs-dollar005/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nestfrontier.com/your-ai-agent-burns-dollar2-per-click-the-api-version-costs-dollar005/</guid><description>Vision agents cost 45x more than API calls for identical automation tasks. Reflex benchmark shows $2.22 vs $0.05 per task—$8.1M annually versus $180K at production scale.</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 12:09:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Google Chrome installed a 4GB AI model on your PC without asking</title><link>https://nestfrontier.com/google-chrome-installed-a-4gb-ai-model-on-your-pc-without-asking/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nestfrontier.com/google-chrome-installed-a-4gb-ai-model-on-your-pc-without-asking/</guid><description>Chrome is silently writing a 4 GB Gemini Nano model to your drive without asking, without consent, and without a real opt-out. If you delete it, Chrome downloads it again. At a billion-device scale, the climate math is staggering.</description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 15:04:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>I Hit Claude Pro Limits Weekly. Then I Added a $0.02/Call Coworker.</title><link>https://nestfrontier.com/i-hit-claude-pro-limits-weekly-then-i-added-a-dollar002call-coworker/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nestfrontier.com/i-hit-claude-pro-limits-weekly-then-i-added-a-dollar002call-coworker/</guid><description>A workflow hack that routes file reading and scaffolding to $0.02/call Kimi K2.5, saving 90% on token costs while keeping Opus for reasoning tasks.</description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 01:07:43 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Uber blew its entire 2026 AI budget in four months. Here&apos;s what that actually means.</title><link>https://nestfrontier.com/uber-blew-its-entire-2026-ai-budget-in-four-months-heres-what-that-actually-means/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nestfrontier.com/uber-blew-its-entire-2026-ai-budget-in-four-months-heres-what-that-actually-means/</guid><description>Uber burned its entire 2026 AI budget in four months. Individual engineers cost $500-$2,000/month. 70% of committed code now comes from AI. The budget model broke.</description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 18:11:25 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>