# AI for Mortals

> AI for Mortals is a free weekday AI newsletter (The Mortal Brief) and website for people who aren't engineers. Every weekday, the practical AI updates that matter, and exactly what to do with them. It is written by Pat Simmons, who tests new AI models and tools on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@per_simmons).

Each article is also available as plain markdown: add `.md` to its URL (for example /blog/<slug>.md). Please cite the article URL without `.md`.
Articles name their author and publication date and link the sources they draw on. Model comparisons give each AI model the same prompt and publish every model's build, the prompt and the cost.

## For AI agents
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## About
- [About AI for Mortals and Pat Simmons](https://www.aiformortals.co/about): Who writes it, how articles are made, and Pat's profiles
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## Sections
- [Model Comparisons](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/section/model-comparisons): The same builds, run on each new model, with what it cost.
- [At Work](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/section/at-work): Models, tools, and useful ways to put them to work.
- [For Creators](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/section/for-creators): Make something worth watching, reading, or sharing.
- [For Marketers](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/section/for-marketers): Practical ideas for reaching the right people.
- [The Human Angle](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/section/the-big-picture): The people, decisions, and changes shaping AI.

## Articles (newest first)
- [AI for Project Managers: How to Use ChatGPT, Claude and the AI in Asana, Jira and Monday, With Prompts](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/ai-for-project-managers): 2026-11-14. Use ChatGPT, Claude or the AI built into Asana, Monday, ClickUp, Jira and Notion to draft status updates, risk lists and plans, with prompts to copy and each tool's price.
- [AI Tools for Marketing, by Task: What ChatGPT, Claude, Jasper, HubSpot and Canva Do and Cost](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/ai-tools-for-marketing): 2026-11-14. Most marketing work needs a general AI assistant, an image or video generator and the AI already in your marketing platform; here is what each does and costs.
- [The Best AI Model Right Now, by Job: Opus 5.5, Fable 5.2, GPT-6 Astra and Gemini 4 From the Same Builds](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/best-ai-model): 2026-11-13. Claude Opus 5.5 won 16 of Pat Simmons's 21 same-prompt builds; here is the best model for each job, with every ranking and cost.
- [We Let Fable Plan and Opus Build. Here's What It Cost](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/claude-pro-usage-limits-fable-opus): 2026-11-13. We tested the Fable-plans, Opus-builds routine on a real-looking project to see what carried over, what got lost and how much usage each step burned.
- [How to Use Claude Sheets and Whiteboards on Real Work](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/ai-spreadsheet-generator-claude-sheets): 2026-11-13. Bring your own numbers into Claude Sheets, talk a stuck project onto a Whiteboard, and know when Excel is still the better tool.
- [ChatGPT Apps for Mac, Android and iPhone: How to Get Them, What They Do and What They Cost](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/chatgpt-apps-for-mac): 2026-11-13. The ChatGPT apps are free on Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android. Paid plans start at $8 a month, and Plus ($20) is where ChatGPT Work, deep research and Codex expand.
- [Is Grok Free? What the Free Plan Gets You, and What Plus, Premium, Super and Ultra Cost](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/is-grok-free): 2026-11-13. Grok's Free plan costs $0 with limited usage, paid plans run from $8 to $200 a month, and there's no free trial, only a half-price first month.
- [How to Use Claude Code: Install It, Build Your First Project and Use Plan Mode](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/how-to-use-claude-code): 2026-11-13. Install Claude Code from the desktop app or one terminal command, build a first project in plain English and use plan mode, with the prompt Pat Simmons used.
- [What Is AI Automation? Plain-English Meaning, Real Examples and What the Tools Cost](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/what-is-ai-automation): 2026-11-13. AI automation hands the reading, sorting and drafting in routine tasks to an AI model, and this guide shows real builds and what Zapier, Make, n8n and Lindy cost.
- [ChatGPT for Teachers: How to Get the Free Plan and Use It for Lessons, Quizzes and Parent Emails](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/chatgpt-for-teachers): 2026-11-13. How to get ChatGPT for Teachers, free for verified U.S. K-12 educators through June 2028, plus prompts to copy and what OpenAI says about student privacy and AI detectors.
- [Google's Gemini Glasses Go on Sale December 10, From $395](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/google-gemini-glasses): 2026-11-13. Google's new Gemini glasses from Warby Parker and Gentle Monster have a camera and speakers but no screen, and pre-orders are open in the US and South Korea.
- [Gemini 4 Hydrogen Now Powers Google Search's AI Answers](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/gemini-4-hydrogen): 2026-11-13. Google's new fast model replaces Gemini 3.8 Flash in Search's AI answers and in the Gemini app, where the model menu calls it Everyday help.
- [Claude Can Now Join Your Google Meet Calls](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/claude-meetings): 2026-11-13. Claude Meetings puts Claude in your Google Meet call to take notes and build docs and whiteboards while you talk, in beta on Team and Enterprise plans.
- [Gemini 4 Hydrogen vs Carbon and Argon: Which Gemini Should You Pick?](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/gemini-flash-vs-pro-hydrogen-argon-carbon): 2026-11-12. We gave Google's new everyday model the same seven jobs we ran on Argon and Carbon, and it got every one right, usually fastest.
- [What an AI Prompt Is and How to Write a Good One for ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/how-to-write-an-ai-prompt): 2026-11-12. An AI prompt is what you type into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini; a good one gives the task, the reader, your facts, the format and what to skip.
- [ChatGPT Planning: How to Plan Your Family's Week, Meals and Trips](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/chatgpt-planning): 2026-11-12. Copy-paste prompts for a week plan, dinners, chores, school runs and trips, plus how ChatGPT's reminders work and which plan includes them.
- [Codex vs Claude Code: Which to Use by Job, From 9 Same-Prompt Builds and Both Price Lists](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/codex-vs-claude-code): 2026-11-12. Which to use for which job, from Pat Simmons's nine same-prompt builds in Claude Code and Codex, plus what each costs and which one runs out of usage first.
- [United Airlines Blocks AI Agents From Booking Your Flights](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/united-blocks-ai-agents): 2026-11-12. United says personal AI agents can't book its flights or sign in to customer accounts anymore, on its own site and app or through travel agencies and booking sites.
- [Meta's Muse Gets Its Own Email Address](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/muse-email-address): 2026-11-12. Muse can now send and receive email from an address of its own, so you can copy it into a thread or forward it a message to handle.
- [Gemini Now Talks With You on Apple CarPlay](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/gemini-apple-carplay): 2026-11-12. The Gemini app is rolling out on Apple CarPlay to every Gemini user on iPhone, so you can talk through your day or your inbox hands-free while you drive.
- [The Best AI Video Generator for Your Job: Seedance, Kling, Gemini Omni, Runway, Grok Imagine and the Free Options](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/ai-video-generators-guide): 2026-11-11. Google Vids makes three free 15-second clips a month, and Pat Simmons made a one-minute Seedance 2.5 explainer for about $15 through Replicate.
- [Gemini Pricing: Is Gemini Free, and What AI Plus, Pro and Ultra Cost](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/gemini-pricing): 2026-11-11. Gemini is free with a Google account, and Google's paid AI plans run from $4.99 to $199.99 a month, while developers pay per token instead.
- [We Turned Our AI Corrections Into a Checklist. Here's What It Caught](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/ai-evals-checklist): 2026-11-11. Save the fixes you keep making as yes/no checks, and you can grade any model or prompt by your own standards. We tested it on a weekly update.
- [We Tried Claude Fable 5.2 on Six Everyday Work Jobs. Sonnet Kept Up.](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/how-to-use-claude-fable): 2026-11-11. We gave Fable 5.2, Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 the same six office jobs, and Sonnet matched Fable on every one for about a fifth of the cost.
- [Gemini 4 Carbon: No-Hype Full Review & Testing](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/gemini-4-carbon-review): 2026-11-11. Gemini 4 Carbon has officially launched, so I put it through three hard builds against Fable 5.2, Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra, with every prompt and cost.
- [Claude vs ChatGPT: 9 Head-to-Head Builds, Plans, Prices](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/claude-vs-chatgpt): 2026-11-11. Which one to pay for by job, from Pat Simmons's nine same-prompt builds of Claude and ChatGPT models, plus what Claude Pro and ChatGPT Plus cost.
- [Claude Code Pricing: Is It Free, What Pro, Max, Ultra, Team and the API Cost](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/claude-code-pricing): 2026-11-11. Claude Code isn't on Claude's Free plan. It starts with Pro at $20 a month, with Max at $100, Ultra at $200 and pay-per-token use through a Console account. Every price here comes from Anthropic's own pages, checked November 10, 2026.
- [Claude Pricing: What Free, Pro, Max, Ultra, Team and the API Cost](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/claude-pricing): 2026-11-11. Claude is free to start. Pro costs $20 a month, Max $100 and Ultra $200, and the API charges from $0.10 to $8 per million input tokens. Every price here comes from Anthropic's own pages, checked November 10, 2026.
- [What Is Vibe Coding? The Plain-English Meaning, Plus 12 Real Builds and What Each Cost](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/what-is-vibe-coding): 2026-11-11. Vibe coding means describing software to an AI in plain English and keeping what works without reading the code. These 12 apps, games and websites from Pat Simmons's tests show what each cost and how long it took.
- [Gemini 4 Carbon, Google's Strongest Model, Opens to Ultra Subscribers](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/gemini-4-carbon-gemini-app): 2026-11-11. Google AI Ultra subscribers can now pick Gemini 4 Carbon in the Gemini app and in AI Mode in Google Search. Google's own post says Argon is still the right model for most work, and Argon did as well as Carbon on seven work jobs AI for Mortals ran on both.
- [Claude Now Builds Spreadsheets and Whiteboards You Share With Your Team](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/claude-sheets-whiteboards): 2026-11-11. Anthropic launched Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards in beta on every paid plan. Sheets builds a working spreadsheet from one request, Whiteboards turns a plan you talk through into a timeline, and a whole team can edit both.
- [Businesses Can Now Claim Their Own Profile in ChatGPT](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/chatgpt-business-hub): 2026-11-11. OpenAI's new Business Hub lets a company claim the profile ChatGPT shows for it, fix its details, add its products and see how often ChatGPT mentions it. Claiming is free at launch, and US online stores can add a Business Agent that answers shoppers.
- [ChatGPT Plus Subscription: What $20 a Month Gets You, Its Limits, and Whether It's Worth It](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/chatgpt-plus-subscription): 2026-11-10. ChatGPT Plus is OpenAI's $20-a-month personal plan. What it adds over Free and the $8 Go plan, how its limits work, who can get it free, how it compares with Claude Pro, and how to cancel, all from OpenAI's and Anthropic's own pages.
- [Is Character.AI Safe for a 14-Year-Old? What It, ChatGPT and Grok Allow Teens to Do](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/is-character-ai-safe-for-teens): 2026-11-10. Character.AI switched off open-ended character chat for everyone under 18 and estimates ages with its own model. From each company's own pages: what teens can still do there, and what ChatGPT and Grok allow.
- [You've Hit the Free Plan Limit for GPT-5: What It Means, When It Resets and What to Do](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/chatgpt-free-plan-limit): 2026-11-10. OpenAI retired GPT-5 from ChatGPT in February, and Free accounts now get unlimited everyday text chats. The limits that remain cover uploads, images, voice and other tools, and ChatGPT shows when each one resets.
- [Gemini 4 Carbon vs Argon: Is the Strongest Gemini Worth Switching To?](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/gemini-4-carbon-vs-gemini-4-argon): 2026-11-10. Google says to bring in Gemini 4 Carbon for your hardest problems. We gave Carbon and Argon the same seven jobs, from a messy email thread to a payroll function with eight hidden bugs. Argon matched it on every one, faster and for less.
- [AI Model Cost Comparison: What the Same Build Cost on Claude, GPT-6, Gemini, Kimi and DeepSeek](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/ai-model-cost-comparison): 2026-11-10. Pat Simmons gave AI models the same builds, three to five at a time, and logged every run's cost, tokens and minutes. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash cost as little as $1.00 a build and Fable 5.1 as much as $592.37, and the two cheapest models placed low in the blind rankings. The page also lists every model's API price and the main plans, checked November 10, 2026.
- [Is There a Claude Pro Discount? The Real Ways to Pay Less for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and SuperGrok](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/claude-pro-discount): 2026-11-10. Claude Pro has no coupon code, and the annual plan at $17 a month is Anthropic's official discount. What Claude, ChatGPT, Google, Perplexity and Grok charge, and who gets them free or cheaper, from each company's own pages.
- [Claude Fable 5.2 vs Opus 5.5: We Ran the Same Five Office Jobs on Both](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/claude-fable-vs-opus): 2026-11-10. Fable 5.2 costs twice as much per token as Opus 5.5. We gave both the same email thread, 48-page report, messy contact list, slide deck and small build. Three jobs were a tie, Fable won two on details, and it cost about twice as much to get there.
- [We Had Claude Clean Up Its Own Memory. 105 Lines Went In, 24 Came Out](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/claude-memory-cleanup): 2026-11-10. Claude's memory collects old jobs, past plans and one-time requests. We built a 105-line memory for a made-up person, with an answer key, and had Claude Opus 5.5 clean it six times. It cut every one-time request and kept every current fact, but it miscounted its own memory and guessed on a few things you'd want to be asked about.
- [Qwen vs ChatGPT: What Qwen 3.8 and GPT-6 Astra Do, What They Cost, and Who Each Is For](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/qwen-vs-chatgpt): 2026-11-10. ChatGPT is OpenAI's all-in-one app, free or from $8 a month, with GPT-6 Astra on Plus and Pro. Qwen is Alibaba's free assistant and a family of open models you can download. Plans, sizes, licenses and Alibaba's own scores, from each company's pages.
- [What Is ChatGPT Pulse? How It Worked, Who Had It, and What Replaced It](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/what-is-chatgpt-pulse): 2026-11-10. Pulse did research for ChatGPT Pro subscribers overnight and showed it as a few cards each morning. OpenAI retired it in June 2026 and moved daily briefings into scheduled tasks. From OpenAI's own pages: how it worked, who had it, what it cost and how to get the same brief now.
- [Fable 5.2: No-Hype Full Review & Testing](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/fable-5-2): 2026-11-10. Anthropic just released Fable 5.2, so I put it through three builds against Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra and Gemini 4 Argon, with the exact prompts and what every build cost.
- [Mistral vs Claude: Large 4 vs Opus 5.5 on Price, Coding and Which to Use](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/mistral-vs-claude): 2026-11-10. Mistral's Pro plan costs $14.99 a month and its flagship, Large 4, is open-weight; Claude Pro costs $20 and includes Claude Code. Plan prices, API rates and which to use for which job, from both companies' own pages.
- [Claude Fable 5.2 Is Here, and Pro Gets a Free Week](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/claude-fable-5-2): 2026-11-10. Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2, its most capable model, and Pro subscribers can use it inside their plan until November 16. Here's who gets what, how Fable resets work, and how to test it against Opus 5.5 on your own work this week.
- [Apple Starts Charging $49.99 When You Run Out of AI in Its Apps](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/apple-intelligence-usage-packs): 2026-11-10. Logic Pro now sells a $49.99 Intelligence Usage Pack to Apple Creator Studio subscribers who hit their monthly AI limit. Here's which features have limits, how much you get before you need a pack, the rules on refunds and expiry, and how to check your usage.
- [Google’s Coding Agent Gets a Layout for People Who Don’t Code](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/antigravity-knowledge-work): 2026-11-10. Google Antigravity now has a Knowledge Work layout that hides the code and terminal and shows your documents, links and finished files. Here's what changes, how to switch, what the free plan gets you, and how it stacks up against Claude Cowork and ChatGPT Work.
- [Gemma vs Qwen: Gemma 4 vs Qwen 3.5, 3.6 and 3.8, Side by Side](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/gemma-vs-qwen): 2026-11-09. Google's and Alibaba's own published numbers for Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.5, 3.6 and 3.8: coding scores, the sizes you can run at home, languages, audio and licenses.
- [Is ChatGPT Safe for Confidential Information? Plan by Plan](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/is-chatgpt-safe-for-confidential-information): 2026-11-09. On ChatGPT Free, Plus and Pro, OpenAI can train on your chats until you switch it off; Business, Enterprise and Edu don't train on them by default, and their admins can read and export them. From each company's own pages: what ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot and Gemini keep from your work, who can see it, and which plans can take patient data under HIPAA.
- [Seedream 5.5 in CapCut: Can It Really Edit the Same Image 100 Times?](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/seedream-5-5-capcut): 2026-11-09. Seedream 5.5 promises 100 rounds of edits on one image without the picture slowly falling apart, plus transparent backgrounds and sharper text. It's rolling out in CapCut now, but the US is still waiting, and the 'unlimited' offer covers one plan, 11 countries and one week.
- [Meta's Muse Ember, Tested: What a Small, Cheap Model Can Actually Do](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/meta-muse-ember-review): 2026-11-09. Meta's smallest Muse model costs 10 cents per million tokens you send it and is built for routine agent work. We gave it five everyday jobs, from a messy email thread to a working calculator. All five came back in under 20 seconds, the five together cost less than 2 cents, and one email reply had a real slip.
- [Lovable vs Replit vs Bolt: What Each Costs and Who It's For](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/lovable-vs-replit-vs-bolt): 2026-11-09. Lovable, Replit and Bolt all build web apps from a plain-English prompt, all three have a free plan, and paid plans start at $25, $20 and $25 a month.
- [ChatGPT Custom Instructions: How to Set Them, What to Write, and Copy-Paste Examples](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/chatgpt-custom-instructions): 2026-11-09. Custom instructions are a note ChatGPT considers in every chat, and every plan has them. Here are OpenAI's own steps for setting them, copy-paste templates for work, writing and learning, how to change ChatGPT's personality, and where Gemini and Claude keep the same setting.
- [Google Vids Now Makes Free AI Video Clips. Are They Good Enough for Work?](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/google-vids-ai-video-generator): 2026-11-09. Anyone with a Google account can now make 15-second AI video clips with sound in Google Vids at no cost. We ran three everyday work clips through the same model, a training reminder, a meeting announcement and a slide background, and all three were usable on the first try.
- [We Made Work GIFs With ChatGPT Images 2.6. Here's What Worked](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/ai-gif-maker-chatgpt-work-gifs): 2026-11-09. ChatGPT's new image model turns a typed description into an animated GIF. We made five real work GIFs with it, a status update, a process explainer, a chart for a slide and a Slack reaction, and counted the tries, the seconds and the typos.
- [The Best AI for Your Resume: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or a Resume Builder, by Job (With Prompts)](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/best-ai-for-resume): 2026-11-09. To tailor a resume to a job ad, the free plans of ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini are enough. Resume builders like Rezi, Kickresume and Resume Genius add templates and finished files for a monthly fee. Here is what each costs, from its own pricing page, plus prompts you can copy.
- [AI Chatbot Subscriptions: What ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok Cost, Plan by Plan](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/ai-chatbot-subscriptions): 2026-11-08. Most AI chatbots are free to start and about $20 a month for the main paid plan. This guide lists what every ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok plan costs and includes, from each company's own pricing page.
- [AI Scams: Voice Clones, Deepfakes and How to Spot Them](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/ai-scams): 2026-11-08. Cloned voices, deepfake video calls and AI trading bots run on old tricks. How each one works, the signs the FBI and FTC point to, and what to do.
- [Replit's valuation, and who owns Cursor, Lovable, Devin and the other AI coding companies](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/ai-coding-companies): 2026-11-08. Replit is valued at $9 billion, Lovable at $13.3 billion and Cognition, the maker of Devin and owner of Windsurf, at $48 billion. SpaceX now owns Cursor. Every figure comes from the company's own announcement.
- [Who Owns AI? Who Owns OpenAI, Anthropic, Scale AI, Harvey, Character.AI and the Rest](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/who-owns-ai): 2026-11-08. No one owns AI: a handful of companies make the big models, and most of them are private. Here's who owns or controls OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Scale AI, Harvey, Character.AI and more, their latest valuations, and which ones you can buy stock in, from each company's own announcements.
- [Granola AI note-taker: what it is, what it costs, and who it's for](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/granola-ai-note-taker): 2026-11-08. Granola is an AI notepad that transcribes your meetings from your computer's own audio, so no bot joins the call. It's free with 30 days of history, and Business costs $14 per user a month, per Granola's own pricing page and docs.
- [The Best AI for Video, by Job: Editing Your Footage vs Generating New Clips](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/best-ai-for-video): 2026-11-08. To edit footage you shot, Claude Opus 5.5 now does about 95% of Pat Simmons's Premiere Pro edit. To make new clips from a prompt or a photo, here is what Kling, Gemini Omni, Grok Imagine, Seedance and the rest do and cost, from each company's own pages.
- [Higgsfield Pricing: Is Higgsfield Free, and What Each Plan Gets You](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/higgsfield-pricing): 2026-11-08. Higgsfield's free plan comes with no credits, and its paid plans cost $19 to $375 a month on monthly billing. What each plan includes, what a credit works out to, how Unlimited models work, and how to cancel or get a refund, from Higgsfield's own pricing and help pages.
- [Wispr Flow Pricing: Is Wispr Flow Free, and What Pro and Growth Cost](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/wispr-flow-pricing): 2026-11-07. Wispr Flow has a free plan with a weekly word limit, and paid plans at $15 and $23 per user a month. What each plan includes, the student discount, and how Pat Simmons's free clone did against it, from Wispr Flow's own pages.
- [How I Got Claude Code to Control My Fujifilm Camera](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/claude-code-control-fujifilm-camera): 2026-11-07. I plugged a Fujifilm X-T5 into my Mac and had Claude Code shoot photos, design a Portra 800 recipe and load it into the camera, and re-render my RAW files on its own processor. Every prompt and the full setup are below.
- [Grok Alternatives: What to Use Instead of Grok, Grok Bot and Grok 4.7, by Job](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/grok-alternatives): 2026-11-07. What to use instead of Grok for chat, agents, coding and video, what each one costs on its own pricing page, and where Pat Simmons's tests put Grok Bot and Grok 4.7 against them.
- [Is ChatGPT Safe? What It Keeps, How to Lock It Down, and How Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek and Grok Compare](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/is-chatgpt-safe): 2026-11-07. ChatGPT keeps what you type and, on its Free, Plus and Pro plans, can train on it until you switch that off. Each company's own privacy pages show what ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok, Copilot, Perplexity and Meta AI keep, for how long, and which setting stops training on your chats.
- [ChatGPT for Customer Service: How to Use It, With Prompts](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/chatgpt-for-customer-service): 2026-11-06. ChatGPT does the most for a support team as a drafting assistant: paste in the customer's message and the policy that answers it, then check the reply before you send it. Every plan, price and privacy setting below comes from OpenAI's own pages.
- [Agentic AI vs Generative AI: The Difference, Shown With ChatGPT and Claude](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/agentic-ai-vs-generative-ai): 2026-11-06. Generative AI makes content when you ask, and agentic AI uses the same models to plan steps and use tools until a job is done, shown here with ChatGPT agent, Claude Code and one inbox handled both ways.
- [Copilot vs ChatGPT: What Each One Does, What It Costs, and Who It's For](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/copilot-vs-chatgpt): 2026-11-06. Microsoft Copilot works inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, while ChatGPT is OpenAI's standalone assistant, and this guide sets each plan's price, from each company's own page, beside the job it suits.
- [Claude vs Gemini: Opus 5.5 vs Gemini 4 Argon on the Same Builds, and Which to Use for Each Job](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/claude-vs-gemini): 2026-11-06. Pat Simmons gave Claude's Opus 5.5 and Google's Gemini 4 Argon the same four builds and ranked them blind. Opus placed first every time and Argon last, Argon cost far less to run, and each starts on a plan of about $20 a month.
- [Claude MCP: What MCP Is, How to Add a Server, and What It Did in Pat Simmons's Builds](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/what-is-mcp): 2026-11-06. MCP is the open standard that lets Claude connect to other apps and take actions in them. How to add a server in the Claude app or Claude Code, which plans get it, and what happened when Pat Simmons had Claude publish a blog post and cut a video through one.
- [What Is a Token in AI? What Tokens Cost, and the Counts From Three App Builds](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/what-is-token-in-ai): 2026-11-06. Tokens are the small chunks of text an AI model reads and writes, and they set both your API bill and how fast you hit a plan's limits. What they cost on Claude and OpenAI, what Claude and Codex plans say about limits, and how many tokens three identical app builds used.
- [How to Delete Your ChatGPT Account, Chats and History (and What OpenAI Keeps)](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/delete-chatgpt-account): 2026-11-06. Delete your ChatGPT account from Settings, or keep the account and clear one chat, every chat or what ChatGPT remembers about you. Each path below comes from OpenAI's own help pages, along with what OpenAI keeps afterwards and for how long.
- [How to Use Claude: Sign Up, Pick a Model and Run Your First Prompts](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/how-to-use-claude): 2026-11-06. Sign up free at claude.ai, pick a plan and model, hand Claude whole tasks, and copy three prompts we ran on Opus 5.5. Every price and plan detail was checked against Anthropic's own pages on November 6, 2026.
- [We Had Claude Audit a Year of Bank Statements Without Linking a Bank. Here's What It Found](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/ai-budgeting-claude-bank-statements): 2026-11-06. You can get an AI budgeting audit without connecting your bank to anything. Download your transactions as CSV files, hand them to Claude with one prompt, and it finds forgotten subscriptions, price hikes, double charges and fees, then writes the cancel emails. We tested it on a year of transactions with 15 problems hidden inside.
- [Is Plaid Safe? What to Check Before You Link Your Bank to Claude](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/is-plaid-safe-claude-chatgpt): 2026-11-06. Claude's new Personal Finance and ChatGPT's Finances both connect to your bank through Plaid. Here's what Plaid and each AI can see, what Plaid settled over in 2022, and seven checks to run before you link an account.
- [Claude vs ChatGPT vs Gemini: Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Astra and Gemini 4 Argon on the Same Builds](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/claude-vs-chatgpt-vs-gemini): 2026-11-06. Pat Simmons gave Claude's Opus 5.5 and Fable 5.1, ChatGPT's GPT-6 Astra and Google's Gemini 4 Argon the same four builds and ranked them blind. Claude won every round, Gemini cost the least, and each top model starts on a plan of about $20 a month.
- [Midjourney Pricing: Is Midjourney Free, and What Basic, Standard, Pro and Mega Get You](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/midjourney-pricing): 2026-11-06. Midjourney has no free trial on its website or in Discord, and its four plans cost $10 to $120 a month. What each one includes, how fast hours, Relax mode and Stealth mode work, and how to subscribe or cancel, from Midjourney's own help pages.
- [Cursor vs Claude Code: Which One to Use, by Job, and What Each Really Costs](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/cursor-vs-claude-code): 2026-11-06. Claude Code comes with Claude's Pro, Max and Ultra plans at $20, $100 and $200 a month. Cursor runs $0 to $200 a month, and Claude models cost extra there. Which to pick for which job, from both companies' own pages.
- [Your Muse Now Talks Back, With a Face](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/muse-voice-avatars): 2026-11-06. Meta rolled out voice conversations and animated avatars in the Muse app for everyone in the US. Here's how to start a call, the three ways to show the avatar, how to make it your own, and what it's good for.
- [Google's Video Model Now Makes 15-Second Clips You Fix by Asking](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/gemini-omni-15-second-videos): 2026-11-06. Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash makes clips with sound up to 15 seconds long, and you can change a finished clip by typing what you want. Three a month are free in Google Vids. Here's what you can change, where to use it, and what it still gets wrong.
- [Claude Can Now Answer Questions About Your Own Money](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/claude-personal-finance): 2026-11-06. Anthropic launched Personal Finance in Claude: link your bank and card accounts through Plaid, then ask where your money went. Here's who gets it, how to set it up, exactly what Claude can see, and how to check its math.
- [Grok Bot Is Out of Beta: 7 Use Cases and Every Bot's Instructions](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/grok-bot-1-0): 2026-11-05. I set up a team of Grok Bots for a coffee brand's Black Friday launch. Every bot's instructions are below, with the apps it used and what I learned.
- [Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, Tested: We Edited a Video Just by Chatting With It](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/gemini-omni-flash-1-2-tested): 2026-11-05. Google's updated video model makes clips up to 15 seconds long with sound, costs 30% less, and lets you change a finished clip by typing what you want. We made ten clips with it. Swapping the scene worked every time we asked plainly. Changing the camera never did.
- [AI Prompts Generator: Make ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini Write Your Prompt (Free Templates)](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/ai-prompts-generator): 2026-11-05. You don't need a prompt generator app: one copy-paste template turns ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini into one. Here are the templates, the prompt tools OpenAI, Anthropic and Google offer, and what our 27-run prompt test found.
- [How to Cancel Your ChatGPT Subscription, Plus Claude, Google AI Pro and SuperGrok](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/cancel-chatgpt-subscription): 2026-11-05. Cancel ChatGPT, Claude, Google AI Pro or SuperGrok in the place you paid for it, then check each company's refund rules, which depend on where you paid and where you live.
- [Grok vs ChatGPT: Grok 4.7 and GPT-6 Astra on the Same 3 Builds, Plus What Each Plan Costs](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/grok-vs-chatgpt): 2026-11-05. Pat Simmons's tests put Grok 4.7 against ChatGPT's GPT-6 Astra on three identical builds and Grok Bot against ChatGPT's Dots on three agent jobs, next to what every plan costs.
- [The Best AI for Coding Right Now, for People Who Don't Code: 21 Builds Ranked](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/best-ai-for-coding): 2026-11-05. Opus 5.5 came first in 16 of the 21 apps, games, websites and videos Pat Simmons had AI models build from identical prompts, 18 of them judged blind. Every build's ranking and cost, and which model to use for which job.
- [Gemini vs ChatGPT: Gemini 4 Argon vs GPT-6 Astra on the Same 4 Builds](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/chatgpt-vs-gemini): 2026-11-05. Pat Simmons gave Google's Gemini 4 Argon and ChatGPT's top model, GPT-6 Astra, the same four hard builds. Astra placed higher every time, and Argon cost about a tenth as much. Here is what each one costs and which plan gets it.
- [ChatGPT Images 2.6, Tested: GIFs, Reference Images and Precise Edits](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/chatgpt-image-generator-images-2-6): 2026-11-05. OpenAI's new image model is live on every ChatGPT plan. We put it through five real jobs: a product shot reused across three scenes, a one-detail photo edit, a chart slide, and two looping GIFs. Here is what held up, what didn't, and the prompts we used.
- [Notion Becomes One Shared Memory for ChatGPT, Claude and Your Other Assistants](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/notion-shared-memory): 2026-11-05. Notion launched a setup that lets ChatGPT, Claude, Muse and Grok Bot save what they learn about you into the same place in Notion and share skills there. Here's how to set it up, what your assistants will save and skip, and what it costs.
- [Grok Bot Now Makes Phone Calls for You](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/grok-bot-phone-calls): 2026-11-05. Grok Bot can now call businesses for you to cancel a plan, ask for a refund or sit on hold, and it checks with you before it dials. Here's how a call works, how to brief it, what early users got out of it and who can use it.
- [ChatGPT's New Image Model Makes Animated GIFs](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/chatgpt-images-gifs): 2026-11-05. OpenAI's Images 2.6 turns ChatGPT into a GIF maker: ask for an animation in one line or upload a photo, then change the speed and fix single frames right in the chat. Here's how it works, prompts to try and what else got faster.
- [Kling 4.0 Flash vs Kling 4.0: What the Cheaper, Faster Version Gives Up](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/kling-ai-pricing-4-0-flash): 2026-11-04. Kling's fast video model is now open to everyone on the website and the API. It still makes clips with sound, and it costs about 40% less than Kling 4.0 at the same quality setting. Here is what you trade for that, what it costs in credits, and when to use each one.
- [Codex Pricing: What Each ChatGPT Plan Gets, and Whether It's Free](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/codex-pricing): 2026-11-04. Codex comes with every ChatGPT plan, from a limited free version to Pro at $500 a month. What each plan gets, how the limits and credits work, and how the prices compare with Claude Code, from OpenAI's own pages.
- [Is Claude Free? What You Get on the Free Plan, and What Pro, Max and Ultra Add](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/is-claude-free): 2026-11-04. Claude's Free plan costs nothing and covers chat, web search, Docs, Slides and Design on Sonnet and Haiku, with usage limits every five hours and every week. Opus and Claude Code start on the $20 Pro plan.
- [Cursor Pricing: Is Cursor Free, and What Each Plan From $0 to $200 Gets You](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/cursor-pricing): 2026-11-04. Cursor has a free plan and paid plans at $8, $30, $100 and $200 a month. What each one includes, why Claude and GPT cost extra and what happened to the $20 Pro plan, from Cursor's own pages.
- [ChatGPT Alternatives: What Claude, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI, Copilot and Perplexity Do and Cost](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/chatgpt-alternatives): 2026-11-04. Claude, Gemini, Grok, Meta's Muse, Copilot and Perplexity next to ChatGPT: what each one does, what it costs on its own pricing page, and where Pat Simmons's tests cover it.
- [Siri AI Starts Working Inside Other Companies' Apps](https://www.aiformortals.co/blog/siri-ai-third-party-apps): 2026-11-04. Apple opened Siri AI to every app developer in the iOS 27.3 beta, so apps can let the new Siri act inside them when you ask in your own words. Apple says it reaches customers in a few months, and 15 of Apple's own apps get the same abilities in this beta.

## Built by Pat (AI model builds, with prompts)
- [All builds](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat): Games, websites, 3D and apps from Pat's AI model tests
- [A 1940s dogfight flight simulator](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/a-1940s-dogfight-flight-simulator-1vbm85): Gemini 4 Carbon, Fable 5.2, Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Astra. A browser-playable air-combat flight simulator with a real flight model, enemy fighters that dogfight back and a coastline built in Blender.
- [A pixel-for-pixel website clone](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/a-pixel-for-pixel-website-clone-1vbm85): Gemini 4 Carbon, Fable 5.2, Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Astra. A rebuild of the agrumeafarm.it site with its physics loader, 3D jar carousel and page transitions, making every asset from scratch, following my clone-app-pat-pro playbook.
- [The flying Tesla Roadster, drivable](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/the-flying-tesla-roadster-drivable-pexsao): Fable 5.2, Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra, Gemini 4 Argon. Model the new Tesla Roadster in Blender from scratch and put it in a 3D viewer you can spin, fly and drive.
- [Central Park: a visual history](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/central-park-a-visual-history-pexsao): Fable 5.2, Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra, Gemini 4 Argon. A short history film drawn like an architect's drawings, plus an interactive 3D Central Park you can click through.
- [Shopify Editions, rebuilt](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/shopify-editions-rebuilt-pexsao): Fable 5.2, Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra, Gemini 4 Argon. Rebuild Shopify's Winter '26 Editions page pixel for pixel, motion included, making every image and 3D model from scratch.
- [Cloning morphowater.com, pixel for pixel](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/a-pixel-for-pixel-website-clone-1hty5m): Kimi K3.1 Pro, Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. A rebuild of the morphowater.com product site with its 3D can and scroll motion, using no assets taken from the original, following my clone-app-pat-pro playbook.
- [A first-person billiards game](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/a-first-person-billiards-game-1hty5m): Kimi K3.1 Pro, Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. A first-person 3D billiards game in the browser with real ball physics, a computer opponent and shot-by-shot replay, set in a photoreal pool bar.
- [Cloning oryzo.ai, pixel for pixel](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/a-pixel-for-pixel-website-clone-1p5w9h): Gemini 4 Argon, Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra. A rebuild of the oryzo.ai site with its 3D and motion, using no assets taken from the original.
- [A photoreal 3D product bottle](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/a-photoreal-3d-product-bottle-1p5w9h): Gemini 4 Argon, Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra. A photoreal 3D cold brew bottle you can orbit, open and pour, built from a fictional coffee brand's kit.
- [A product launch video](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/a-product-launch-video-1p5w9h): Gemini 4 Argon, Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra. A 30 to 60 second launch video for the same coffee brand, with photoreal product shots and sound.
- [A Rocket League style car soccer game](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/a-rocket-league-style-car-soccer-game-1p5w9h): Gemini 4 Argon, Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra. A playable car soccer game in the browser with photoreal graphics and a computer opponent.
- [Clone an award-winning website, motion and all](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/clone-an-award-winning-website-motion-and-all-1g8dxc): Muse Wonder Full, Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra. A rebuild of heronaiapp.com, the same Awwwards site for every model, following my free Clone App Pat Pro skill, with every image made by the model and nothing taken from the original.
- [Launch a product with a full ad campaign](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/launch-a-product-with-a-full-ad-campaign-1g8dxc): Muse Wonder Full, Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra. Research real ads in Meta's Ad Library, then write and produce a cold brew launch campaign with static ads, a launch film, a vertical cut and three short-form videos, all rendered in code.
- [Build a coffee-ordering iPhone app](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/build-a-coffee-ordering-iphone-app-1g8dxc): Muse Wonder Full, Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra. A native SwiftUI ordering app for the same coffee brand, modelled on the Philz Coffee app, built in Xcode and run in the iPhone simulator.
- [Simulate a Starship launch and tower catch](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/simulate-a-starship-launch-and-tower-catch-1g8dxc): Muse Wonder Full, Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra. A real-time 3D simulation in the browser of the full mission, from liftoff and hot staging to the booster flying back and being caught by the launch tower's arms.
- [Make the launch video for Sonnet 5.5](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/make-the-launch-video-for-sonnet-5-5-5koom8): Sonnet 5.5, Sonnet 5, Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra. A 30 to 60 second launch video for Sonnet 5.5 built from Anthropic's launch page, following my free Launch Video Clone skill.
- [Build a realistic Backrooms horror game](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/build-a-realistic-backrooms-horror-game-5koom8): Sonnet 5.5, Sonnet 5, Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra. A first-person horror game set in an endless Level 0, with the rooms modeled and lit in Blender and a creature that hunts by sound.
- [Clone an Awwwards winner, 3D and all](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/clone-an-awwwards-winner-3d-and-all-5koom8): Sonnet 5.5, Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra. A rebuild of butter.video, the same site for every model, with its 3D keychain modelled in Blender and nothing taken from the original.
- [Make the most impressive demo of yourself](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/make-the-most-impressive-demo-of-yourself-5koom8): Sonnet 5.5, Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra. A self-directed audiovisual demo in one HTML file, where every pixel and every sound is generated by code.
- [Build a Diablo-style action RPG](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/build-a-diablo-style-action-rpg-5koom8): Sonnet 5.5, Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra. A complete browser dungeon crawler with a town, four random floors, loot, skills, saving and a boss the model has to beat itself.
- [3D game development](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/3d-game-development-xde61): Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra. A Tony Hawk's Pro Skater style game set in a recreation of the original Warehouse level, where every 3D model had to be built in Blender before it went into the game.
- [A launch film with its own sound design](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/a-launch-film-with-its-own-sound-design-xde61): Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra. A 20-second launch film for a product each model made up, with every sound synthesized in code, set inside a launch page that opens with a torn-paper reveal.
- [Illustration drawn entirely in code](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/illustration-drawn-entirely-in-code-xde61): Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra. Scenes from Moby Dick as a single web page printed like a risograph poster, where every sailor, wave and ink dot is drawn by the model's own code with no images at all, in the same format as Kevin Ngo's a small light.
- [Adizero, made in Blender](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/adizero-in-blender): Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra. A Blender test using the adidas Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3, with a product page for each model's shoe.
- [Mana Yerba Mate](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/mana-yerba-mate): Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra. A test of how closely three models could copy Mana Yerba Mate's moving product page.
- [RollerCoaster Tycoon](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/rollercoaster-tycoon): Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra. Three browser versions of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, with a brief covering track building, ride testing and paying guests.
- [An Awwwards website, rebuilt](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/awwwards-clone): Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra. Each model chose an Awwwards winner to copy, so this test compared their website choices as well as the finished pages.
- [Clone an Awwwards winner](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/clone-an-awwwards-winner-grok-4-7-vs-fable-5-1-vs): Grok 4.7, Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra. A pixel-for-pixel rebuild of an Awwwards winning site that the model picks for itself.
- [A scroll-driven 3D product page](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/a-scroll-driven-3d-product-page-grok-4-7-vs-fable-5-1-vs): Grok 4.7, Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra. A product page for a mechanical keyboard whose 3D centerpiece is built in code and driven by scroll.
- [Clone Mario Kart](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/clone-mario-kart-grok-4-7-vs-fable-5-1-vs): Grok 4.7, Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra. A playable browser clone of Rainbow Road using Mario Kart 8's drift and item mechanics.
- [Fallingwater in Blender](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/fallingwater-in-blender-gpt-6-astra-blender-fall): GPT-6 Astra. I gave GPT-6 Astra control of Blender, the free 3D modelling software, and asked it to build three things: a flythrough of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, the room I am sitting in right now, and a 3D model of the NEO humanoid robot embedded in a web page. You do not need to know how to code or anything about Blender to do this. Neither do I. The setup takes five minutes; the three builds took 54 hours of unattended compute and $1,771.61 in tokens. Below are the prompts, the results, and everything that broke.
- [Pat's studio in Blender](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/pats-studio-in-blender-gpt-6-astra-blender-fall): GPT-6 Astra.
- [NEO robot model and product page](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/neo-robot-model-and-product-page-gpt-6-astra-blender-fall): GPT-6 Astra.
- [An iPod for your AI conversations](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/codex-ipod): GPT-6 Astra, Fable 5.1. GPT-6 Astra and Fable 5.1 built desktop iPods with click-wheel controls and songs generated to sound like the early 2000s.
- [Omaha Beach, in 3D](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/omaha-beach): GPT-6 Astra, Fable 5.1. Two attempts to recreate D-Day at Omaha Beach in 3D, with a timeline for watching the battle unfold.
- [A playable Nuketown](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/nuketown): GPT-6 Astra, Fable 5.1. A browser shooter test on Nuketown, with GPT-6 Astra and Fable 5.1 building the same map.
- [A dive watch that comes apart](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/dive-watch): GPT-6 Astra, GPT-5.6 Sol, Fable 5.1. A product-page test where scrolling was meant to take a 3D dive watch apart and put it back together.
- [A machine that has to walk](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/strandbeest): GPT-6 Astra, GPT-5.6 Sol, Fable 5.1. A 3D walking-machine test based on Theo Jansen's Strandbeest, with adjustable legs, gravity and ground friction.
- [Six karts. Three laps.](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/kart-racer): GPT-6 Astra, GPT-5.6 Sol, Fable 5.1. Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra and GPT-5.6 Sol built browser kart racers from the same prompt.
- [Clone an Awwwards winner, pixel for pixel](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/clone-an-awwwards-winner-pixel-for-pixel-gpt-6-astra-vs-sol-vs-fa): GPT-6 Astra, GPT-5.6 Sol, Fable 5.1. Each model picked its own award-winning site, read the real computed styles off the live page, and rebuilt from those values until every assertion passed.
- [World-class web design](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/world-class-web-design-fable-5-1-vs-fable-5-vs-): Fable 5.1, Fable 5, Opus 5. A website of their choosing, built to show off design and taste.
- [3D and simulation](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/3d-and-simulation-fable-5-1-vs-fable-5-vs-): Fable 5.1, Fable 5, Opus 5. A real-time, interactive 3D place of their choosing — something you're inside of, not an object in a void.
- [Game development](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/game-development-fable-5-1-vs-fable-5-vs-): Fable 5.1, Fable 5, Opus 5. A playable browser game of their choosing, with the obvious genres ruled out.
- [Motion graphics](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/motion-graphics-fable-5-1-vs-fable-5-vs-): Fable 5.1, Fable 5, Opus 5. A short motion graphics piece about a real subject — no title sequences.
- [Knowledge work: relaunching J.Crew](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/knowledge-work-relaunching-j-crew-fable-5-1-vs-fable-5-vs-): Fable 5.1, Fable 5, Opus 5. A full brand relaunch delivered as an agency pitch deck, collection and all.
- [World-class web design](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/world-class-web-design-opus-5-vs-opus-4-8-vs-fa): Opus 5, Opus 4.8, Fable 5. A website of their choosing, built to show off design and taste.
- [3D and simulation](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/3d-and-simulation-opus-5-vs-opus-4-8-vs-fa): Opus 5, Opus 4.8, Fable 5. A real-time, interactive 3D scene of their choosing.
- [Game development](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/game-development-opus-5-vs-opus-4-8-vs-fa): Opus 5, Opus 4.8, Fable 5. A playable browser game of their choosing.
- [Motion graphics](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/motion-graphics-opus-5-vs-opus-4-8-vs-fa): Opus 5, Opus 4.8, Fable 5. A short motion graphics piece of their choosing.
- [Knowledge work: the SpaceX question](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/knowledge-work-the-spacex-question-opus-5-vs-opus-4-8-vs-fa): Opus 5, Opus 4.8, Fable 5. A private wealth deck answering one question: should you buy SpaceX?
- [Animated 3D world](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/animated-3d-world-kimi-k3-fable-5-gpt-56-b): Kimi K3, Fable 5, GPT-5.6 Sol. A real-time ocean + whirlpool (Charybdis) from the Odyssey, everything drawn in code.
- [Cinematic scrolling site](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/cinematic-scrolling-site-kimi-k3-fable-5-gpt-56-b): Kimi K3, Fable 5, GPT-5.6 Sol. A scroll-driven photoreal 3D site built around the real IMAX Keighley camera, with an interactive shoot-the-scene finale.
- [Physics-driven game](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/physics-driven-game-kimi-k3-fable-5-gpt-56-b): Kimi K3, Fable 5, GPT-5.6 Sol. A playable Odyssey game: blind the Cyclops, then escape under the rams.
- [World-class web design](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/world-class-web-design-kimi-k3-fable-5-gpt-56-b): Kimi K3, Fable 5, GPT-5.6 Sol. Each model designs an original, award-worthy website, judged on pure taste.
- [Reviving a dying brand](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/reviving-a-dying-brand-kimi-k3-fable-5-gpt-56-b): Kimi K3, Fable 5, GPT-5.6 Sol. A full RadioShack rebrand delivered as a PowerPoint deck with GPT Image Gen.
- [Storm sea (WebGPU ocean)](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/storm-sea-webgpu-ocean-glm-52-vs-kimi-k3): GLM 5.2, Kimi K3. This build is a physically simulated 3D scene in raw WebGPU, built from nothing with no imported models or textures. Everything is drawn in code.
- [Archery game (axes)](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/archery-game-axes-glm-52-vs-kimi-k3): GLM 5.2, Kimi K3. The second heavy build was a playable archery game: draw a real force-draw curve, loose one arrow, and thread it through twelve aligned axe-heads, with swept collision so the fast arrow can't tunnel through the rings. Every bit of it built procedurally in code.
- [Camera teardown site](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/camera-teardown-site-glm-52-vs-kimi-k3): GLM 5.2, Kimi K3. The lightest graphics build (a scroll-driven product site for a film camera that disassembles into an exploded view as you scroll) went to GLM, and cheaply. Here is that prompt:
- [Research report](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/research-report-glm-52-vs-kimi-k3): GLM 5.2, Kimi K3. These are the jobs a normal week is made of: research something and write it up, design a page, build a brand. First, a research report (are data centers bad for the environment, with a focus on water use) delivered as a single designed HTML document with self-built charts and a source cited for every number.
- [Design website](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/design-website-glm-52-vs-kimi-k3): GLM 5.2, Kimi K3. Then a design showcase site, total creative freedom, meant to show off peak taste. Both models, given a blank canvas, independently reached for the deep ocean. GLM made NOCTILUCA, a bioluminescence field study; Kimi made ABYSSAL, a vertical survey of the deep. Here is the prompt:
- [Brand identity](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/brand-identity-glm-52-vs-kimi-k3): GLM 5.2, Kimi K3. And a full brand identity system for a maker of precision navigational instruments, with the logo drawn in code as real SVG, plus palette, type, and applied mockups.
- [Interactive 3D command-center gadget](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/interactive-3d-command-center-gadget-lpp6ibruzga): GPT-5.6 Sol, Opus 4.8, Kimi K2.7, Kimi K3, GLM 5.2.
- [Weather app with its own forecast model](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/weather-app-with-its-own-forecast-model-lpp6ibruzga): GPT-5.6 Sol, Opus 4.8, Kimi K2.7, Kimi K3, GLM 5.2.
- [MP3-to-MIDI converter](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/mp3-to-midi-converter-lpp6ibruzga): GPT-5.6 Sol, Opus 4.8, Kimi K2.7, Kimi K3, GLM 5.2.
- [Street Fighter-style 2D fighting game](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/street-fighter-style-2d-fighting-game-lpp6ibruzga): GPT-5.6 Sol, Opus 4.8, Kimi K2.7, Kimi K3, GLM 5.2.
- [Luxury watch 3D landing page](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/luxury-watch-3d-landing-page-lpp6ibruzga): GPT-5.6 Sol, Opus 4.8, Kimi K3, Fable 5.
- [Counter-Strike 2 clone (Kimi comparison)](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/counter-strike-2-clone-kimi-comparison-lpp6ibruzga): GPT-5.6 Sol, Opus 4.8, Kimi K3, Fable 5.
- [Isaacson-style Pat Simmons biography opening](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/isaacson-style-pat-simmons-biography-opening-lpp6ibruzga): GPT-5.6 Sol, Opus 4.8, Kimi K2.7, Kimi K3, GLM 5.2.
- [Kimi K3 motion-graphics explainer](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/kimi-k3-motion-graphics-explainer-lpp6ibruzga): GPT-5.6 Sol, Opus 4.8, Kimi K2.7, Kimi K3, GLM 5.2.
- [Pat's workshop landing page redesign](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/pats-workshop-landing-page-redesign-lpp6ibruzga): GPT-5.6 Sol, Opus 4.8, Kimi K2.7, Kimi K3, GLM 5.2.
- [Tarantino-style trailer and shot plan](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/tarantino-style-trailer-and-shot-plan-lpp6ibruzga): GPT-5.6 Sol, Opus 4.8, Kimi K2.7, Kimi K3, GLM 5.2.
- [Browser Rubik's Cube solver](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/browser-rubiks-cube-solver-rdqgmnjvhmy): Fable 5, Opus 4.8, GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.5.
- [Monica's apartment explorable 3D model](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/monicas-apartment-explorable-3d-model-rdqgmnjvhmy): Fable 5, Opus 4.8, GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.5.
- [Interactive Milky Way learning map](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/interactive-milky-way-learning-map-rdqgmnjvhmy): Fable 5, Opus 4.8, GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.5.
- [Counter-Strike 2 clone (Sol comparison)](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/counter-strike-2-clone-sol-comparison-rdqgmnjvhmy): Fable 5, Opus 4.8, GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.5. Fable 5, Opus 4.8, GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-5.5 each got the same prompt for a browser clone of Counter-Strike 2 on a Dust 2-style bomb-defusal map.
- [Cinema knowledge graph](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/cinema-knowledge-graph-rdqgmnjvhmy): Fable 5, Opus 4.8, GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.5.
- [Branching interactive graphic novel](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/branching-interactive-graphic-novel-rdqgmnjvhmy): Fable 5, Opus 4.8, GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.5.
- [Text-adventure dungeon](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/text-adventure-dungeon-rdqgmnjvhmy): Fable 5, Opus 4.8, GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.5.
- [YouTube intro in Pat's voice](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/youtube-intro-in-pats-voice-rdqgmnjvhmy): Fable 5, Opus 4.8, GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.5.
- [GPT 5.6 launch PowerPoint](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/gpt-5-6-launch-powerpoint-rdqgmnjvhmy): Fable 5, Opus 4.8, GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.5.
- [Spirit Airlines brand refresh](https://www.aiformortals.co/built-by-pat/spirit-airlines-brand-refresh-rdqgmnjvhmy): Fable 5, Opus 4.8, GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.5.

## Skills (free, open-source agent skills)
- [Clone App Pat Pro](https://www.aiformortals.co/skills/clone-app-pat-pro): Give it a URL and it rebuilds that web app in code, then measures the copy against the original.
- [Blender Production](https://www.aiformortals.co/skills/blender-production): Lets an AI agent build, render and visually check Blender projects through Python and MCP.
- [Unreal Agent Harness](https://www.aiformortals.co/skills/unreal-agent-harness): Lets Claude Code build and play 3D cities in Unreal Engine 5.8 through the official Unreal MCP plugin.
- [Fable Orchestration](https://www.aiformortals.co/skills/fable-orchestration): Uses Claude Fable 5 as the planner and Opus 4.8 as the builder, so you pay the top rate only for the planning.
- [Astra Premiere Editing](https://www.aiformortals.co/skills/astra-premiere-editing): Teaches an AI agent to edit video in the real Adobe Premiere Pro app, the way a person clicks through it.
- [Seedance Prompt Builder](https://www.aiformortals.co/skills/seedance-prompt-builder): Turns a plain-English video idea into a ready-to-paste prompt for the Seedance 2.0 video model.
- [SimmonsBench Agent Fanout](https://www.aiformortals.co/skills/simmonsbench-agent-fanout): Opens six AI coding agents side by side, each building a task, then totals up tokens, cost and time.
- [Launch Video Clone](https://www.aiformortals.co/skills/launch-video-clone): Makes product launch videos in HyperFrames that don't look AI-made, from scratch or cloned shot by shot from a reference.
- [Opus Premiere Editing](https://www.aiformortals.co/skills/opus-premiere-editing): Has Claude Code do the rough cut of a video inside the real Adobe Premiere Pro, through a skill and a Premiere bridge.
- [Game Studio](https://www.aiformortals.co/skills/claude-game-studio): A whole AI game company in your terminal: a producer, writers, designers, artists, engineers and QA as Claude Code sub-agents.
- [Voice OS](https://www.aiformortals.co/skills/voice-os): Run your Mac with your voice: open apps, play music, run terminal commands and read the screen back.
- [iOS Simulator Demo Video](https://www.aiformortals.co/skills/ios-simulator-demo-video): Records a polished demo video of an iOS app in the simulator, with scripted taps, touch circles and an automatic edit.

## Tools (free, open-source apps)
- [iPhone Mirror](https://www.aiformortals.co/tools/iphone-mirror): Shows your iPhone’s screen live on your Mac, inside Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro frame, over one USB cable.
- [Damon Mobile](https://www.aiformortals.co/tools/damon-mobile): Talk to the coding agents running on your Mac from your phone, in a chat that looks like Claude.
- [Damon](https://www.aiformortals.co/tools/ade): A Mac app where you build a team of coding agents that each keep their own name, repo and memory.
- [Murmur](https://www.aiformortals.co/tools/murmur): Hold a key, talk, let go, and cleaned-up text lands in whatever text field you’re typing in.
- [Voice OS](https://www.aiformortals.co/tools/voice-os): Talk to your Mac and it does things: opens apps, plays music, runs terminal commands and reads your screen back.

## Motion graphics
- [Motion Graphics Library](https://www.aiformortals.co/motion-graphics): The motion graphics from Pat's YouTube videos, each with a prompt to make your own and the HyperFrames source
- [Motion Graphics Library (plain text)](https://www.aiformortals.co/motion-graphics/llms.txt): Every item, prompt and source link, for agents

## Optional
- [llms-full.txt](https://www.aiformortals.co/llms-full.txt): This list plus the full text of the latest 30 articles
- [Sitemap](https://www.aiformortals.co/sitemap.xml)