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Building with AI

Hands-on patterns and code for people shipping AI features.

  1. Issue 09

    10 October 2026 · Building with AI · 7 min read

    Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and the voices endpoint: a narrated product tour

    Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS went GA on 22 September with a voices endpoint. Prices, limits, a Next.js route that narrates a page, and the 17 November shutdown to plan for.

    • Gemini TTS
    • text to speech
    • Next.js
    • Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS
    • voice design
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  2. Issue 03

    10 October 2026 · Building with AI · 8 min read

    Jev as a programming primitive: typed questions, not prompts

    Jev answers typed questions with calibrated probabilities instead of writing text: how Choice, Score and Noul work, what confidence means, and a worked intake example.

    • TypeSafe Jev
    • System One
    • structured output
    • classification
    • confidence
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  3. Issue 02

    10 October 2026 · Building with AI · 8 min read

    Prompt caching economics: what a RAG bill looks like in 2026

    Cached input now costs 5 to 10% of list price on Claude, Gemini and GPT-6. The rules, minimums and traps, plus a 10,000-call-a-day RAG bill priced on three models.

    • prompt caching
    • LLM pricing
    • RAG
    • Claude Sonnet 5.5
    • Gemini 3.8 Flash
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