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  Week 4 of my AI Tool Tuesday series, where I test AI tools in real scenarios so you don’t have to. What is GPT-5? OpenAI dropped GPT-5 on August 7, 2025, and it’s not just another incremental update. This is their most advanced model yet, featuring built-in reasoning capabilities that put “expert-level intelligence in everyone’s hands.” But here’s the kicker: instead of testing it through ChatGPT like everyone else, I integrated it directly into Cursor IDE (remember Week 1?) to see how it performs in real development workflows. The result? Cursor themselves called GPT-5 “the smartest model we’ve used” and “remarkably intelligent, easy to steer, with a personality we haven’t seen in other models.” After spending about a week coding with it, I understand the hype. My Real-World Test I put GPT-5 through the ultimate development challenge: building a mobile AI chatbot app with personalized memory and learning capabilities. This wasn’t just a simple chat interface, it required c...

  Week 3 of my AI Tool Tuesday series, where I test AI tools in real scenarios so you don’t have to. What is Ideogram Character Consistency? Forget everything you know about AI image generation struggling with consistent characters. Ideogram’s Character feature, launched just last week (July 29, 2025), lets you upload one single reference image and generate infinite variations of that character across different poses, scenes, styles, and lighting — all while maintaining perfect visual consistency. Unlike Midjourney or DALL-E where you’d get a different-looking “same” character in every image, Ideogram actually understands and preserves character identity. Think of it as having a character designer who never forgets what your protagonist looks like, no matter how many scenes you need to create. My Real-World Test I put Ideogram through the ultimate consistency challenge: creating a complete comic book with a recurring main character. This involved generating the same character acr...

Week 2 of my AI Tool Tuesday series, where I test AI tools in real scenarios so you don’t have to. What Are These Tools? Unlike last week’s Cursor review (which was an AI-enhanced editor), both Gemini CLI and Claude Code are  coding agents  — AI assistants that work directly from your command line to understand, modify, and debug your entire codebase without needing a specific IDE. Gemini CLI  leverages Google’s Gemini model with a massive context window, letting it read extensive logs and trace runtime execution like a detective following breadcrumbs through your code. Claude Code  (Anthropic’s command-line tool) excels at structured exploration and agentic searches, using tools like grep and find to navigate large projects methodically before making changes. Think of it as having two different senior developers: one who’s incredible at spotting bugs in real-time, and another who’s meticulous about understanding your entire project structure first. My Real-World Tes...