How I AI: Jev for beginners + I left Claude for months, Opus 5.5 brought me back + Opus 5.5 vs. GPT-6 Sol bench

The weekly How I AI digest leads with Claire Vo spending a week inside Jev: nine cents to make sense of two years of ChatPRD pull requests, about four dollars for 200,000 classifications, and a working answer to which tasks still deserve a frontier model.

What it does

Eight takeaways accompany the episode, several with numbers worth stealing: her AI usage fell from nearly all engineering in January to under 40% by September as agents took over, and pairing Jev's cheap sorting with GPT-6 Astra reasoning kept a 1,100-signal insights graph near four dollars. The post also links ChatPRD's written walkthroughs of each workflow.

Maker-reported (not independently measured by JevMade): Author-reported: 1,700 ChatPRD pull requests compared across 17,000 pairs for about nine cents · Author-reported: 4,500 How I AI YouTube comments classified, 58 containing episode ideas · Author-reported: 1,100-signal product-insights graph processed 200,000 operations for about $4 on the Jev side

Newsletter post ↗Episode walkthrough (ChatPRD) ↗

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Added: Sep 29, 2026
Project created: Sep 29, 2026

Source checked 2026-09-29 — opened the primary source directly.