Everyone talks about what AI can do. Nobody talks about what it costs you. A practical look at context switching, the vampiric effect, and how I keep agents on my terms.
I volunteered to moderate a subreddit and immediately built tooling instead. This post walks through how Devvit endpoint restrictions forced a pivot from Claude to Gemini, and how that constraint led to a better, free workflow for turning YouTube playlists into configurable AI-assisted Reddit posts.