jamin labs

My AI stack · updated Oct 20, 2026

Every AI plan and app I use, and what I switched from

I pay $430 a month for AI: $200 each for Claude Max 20x and ChatGPT Pro, and $30 for Grok Bot. Google AI Ultra (₩300,000, about $224) is cancelled and runs out on Oct 29. Almost everything else I use is free or open source.

Most of my switches came from heat or from getting blocked. My MacBook couldn't stay cool running agents in Orca, so on Oct 6 I moved the work to a Linux PC that I control from T3 Code. Google kept blocking my agent browsers in Flow, so I cancelled Ultra.

Watch: my AI setup in 7 minutes My weekly plan meters

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What I pay for every month

What I'm billed in October 2026. Prices and limits change, so check each link before you buy.

Also on the bill

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Everything I use now, by job

Free unless it says otherwise. Click any card to open the tool's own site.

Agents and the models behind them

  • Claude Codein my Claude plan

    The agent I give most of my work to: it writes my apps, scripts and automations.

  • Codexin my ChatGPT plan

    The second opinion. It fact-checks and reviews what Claude made, clicks through websites and draws thumbnails.

    Since Sep 2025

  • Antigravity CLIin Google AI Ultra, until Oct 29

    Gemini in the terminal. It watches my rough cuts and points out what to fix.

    Since Jun 18, 2026

Where I run and watch agents

  • T3 Codefree, open source

    One window for every agent thread. The app on my Mac and on my phone talks to the Linux PC, so work keeps going when I close the laptop.

    Since Oct 6, 2026

  • OpenMausBotfree, open source

    Runs my research bots around the clock on the Linux PC. On Oct 17 that was 17 bots and 25 routines.

    Since Oct 14, 2026

  • Grok Bot$30 a month

    X search. In my test it brought back 15 posts, all real.

    Since Oct 15, 2026

Computers

  • Linux PC on OmarchyPC about $1,200 used; Omarchy is free

    RTX 3090 Ti, bought for Stable Diffusion. Every agent, bot and render runs here, day and night.

    Since Oct 1, 2026 (Omarchy)

  • MacBook Pro (M2 Pro)bought used

    The control screen: I type to my agents in T3 Code here and keep my logged-in accounts here.

  • iPhone 15my phone

    I film every video on it. The clips go to my Mac, and the PC picks them up from there.

  • Tailscalefree

    Connects the Mac, the PC and the phone as if they were on one network.

Browsers for agents

  • ego litefree, open source

    The browser my agents use for research on social media and websites. On the Linux PC it's my own port.

  • Asidefree

    For sites with bot protection, and for tedious forms. It remembers how to fill them in.

Voice, video and the rest

  • FluidVoicefree

    Dictation on my Mac. It's fast and fixes my words as I talk, so I don't need a paid dictation app for now.

    Since Oct 19, 2026

  • HyperFramesfree, open source

    Turns HTML into video. Titles, captions and animations in my edits are made with it.

  • WhisperX and FFmpegfree, open source

    Transcribe my phone footage and cut it on the exact word.

  • resticfree, open source

    Nightly encrypted backup of the PC to my Mac.

    Since Oct 16, 2026

  • Bitwardenfree

    Passwords and 2-step codes.

  • GitHubfree

    A private copy of every project, and the public share repo with the files from my videos.

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What I switched, and why

Dates come from my notes, my agents' logs and install dates on my machines. Quotes are what I said at the time, translated from Korean where needed. Each chip links to the product.

Before 2026

  1. 2022 or 2023

    A used PC with an RTX 3090 Ti

    Bought for Stable Diffusion and ComfyUI, for about $1,200. I used it to test image, music and video models.

  2. Mar 2024

    Started paying for Claude

    It's still my main plan, now Max 20x.

  3. Sep 2025

    Codex on my Mac

    A second coding agent next to Claude. Today it mostly checks Claude's work.

2026, before October

Agents on the MacBook

  1. May 30

    ChatGPT Pro

    Mostly for Codex, plus its image generator for thumbnails.

  2. Jun 18

    Gemini CLIAntigravity CLI

    Google stopped serving Gemini CLI to my accounts.

  3. Jul 28

    Macs Fan ControlMacFanSpeedy, my own app

    Running several agents made my MacBook hot, and the free fan app has no keyboard shortcut. Codex built mine in about 36 minutes.

  4. Aug 6

    PaseoOrca

    Paseo ran coding agents on my Mac and let me check them from my phone. I started Orca on Sep 17, and Paseo's last run was Sep 22. I didn't write down why.

Oct 1–9

The work moves to the Linux PC

  1. Oct 1

    UbuntuOmarchy

    A lot of engineers work on it and it keeps getting better. At first it was more annoying to run than Debian-style Linux, so I added a tool that makes the keyboard work like a Mac's.

  2. Oct 6

    Orca on my MacBookT3 Code and the Linux PC

    “I was using Orca on my Mac to control a lot of agents … but then your fan just can't keep up with it.” Now I close the Mac and the work keeps running on the PC.

  3. Oct 9

    BrowserOSego lite

    Google flagged my copied BrowserOS profiles for “unusual activity” and signed them out. ego lite hadn't had that problem.

Oct 10–16

Cutting what doesn't pay for itself

  1. Oct 13

    A local LLM (Qwen) on my GPUthe AI plans I already pay for

    “Useless for me, it just makes the GPU fan loud.” What I have spare is plan usage, not GPU time.

  2. Oct 14

    Hermes AgentOpenMausBot

    “The Hermes bots don't seem to do the work well.” OpenMausBot turned out easier to customize, and it runs on the plans I already have.

  3. Oct 14

    Someone else's Linux fork of ego litemy own port, egolite

    “I have to log in every time, and sessions clash between browsers.” So my agents ported ego lite to Linux themselves.

  4. Oct 15

    Hetzner serversthe Linux PC

    My earlier bots and a Telegram bridge to Claude and Codex ran there. The PC already runs all day and I didn't need the Telegram bridge, so I cancelled one server on Oct 8 and deleted the last on Oct 15.

  5. Oct 15

    My own agent scrolling XGrok Bot

    My agent scrolled 185 posts and missed 13 that Grok Bot found. “Just use this for X search.”

  6. Oct 12–16

    HeyGen, then a Google Flow avatar of mefilming myself on my phone

    HeyGen felt fake. The Flow twin's voice matched mine at 0.88, but the episode was boring, and the next option cost $387 a month. “I'll just film it myself.”

  7. Oct 16

    AI voice cleanupa real microphone

    “I'll just use a mic, no need to burn compute.”

  8. Oct 16

    Google AI Ultracancelled, ends Oct 29

    “That's the only reason I have subscribed”: 25,000 Flow credits. Flow blocks the browser automation I'd need to use them, and I'm not prompting by hand ten hours a day.

  9. Oct 16

    Backups to Google Driverestic to my Mac

    Without Ultra, my Drive drops from 30 TB to the free 15 GB.

Oct 17 to now

  1. Oct 19

    Added FluidVoice for dictation

    “I'm surprised it's a lot better than what I have expected. … I don't really need the paid ones as of now.”

  2. Oct 19–20

    Fixed fan speeds in MacFanSpeedya Steady Comfort mode

    Fixed speeds left either the fan loud or the keyboard hot. The new mode waits for 90 seconds of warmth before it steps up, changes at most once every five minutes, and has “Keyboard too warm” and “Prefer quieter” buttons to tune it.

  3. Next

    ChatGPT Promaybe a second Claude plan

    I'm waiting for OpenAI's next model. If it doesn't keep me, I'll “add another Claude subscription because I usually run out of it.”

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Apps I built for myself

Small apps for my own problems, mostly written by Claude Code and Codex. The code isn't public yet.

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