Elena' s AI Blog

Newsletter archive

Weekly notes on AI tools, Python, and what I'm actually building. Browse a few issues to see what lands in your inbox — then subscribe if it sounds useful.

5 June 2026

Copilot bills, Gemma 4 & MCP tutorial

Build your own AI coding workbench for the price of electricity — then find out why Copilot users are rage-quitting their subscriptions.

29 May 2026

The leaderboard broke. Pins got cheaper.

DeepSWE exposed a wider gap between coding models, while my Pinterest automation experiment came in at less than one cent per pin.

22 May 2026

Yielding to Claude's limits & Google I/O

From a single yield keyword that saves megabytes of memory, through a lawsuit dismissed in 90 minutes, to 900 million users — here is what is worth your attention this week.