About
What this site is
SaikoDev is for anyone who wants to put AI to real use: developers sharpening how they work, product managers who need to understand what they are shipping, founders and small-business owners automating the unglamorous parts, people building their first AI side project — and non-profits doing good work with small teams, for whom I build AI systems free.
Content is pitched by level, not by job title. Some of it explains how LLMs actually work; most of it is about using them well on your own use case, from first prompt to shipped application.
The bar is simple: nothing gets published here that has not been read, run, or shipped first. That rules out most of what a search for “best AI tools” returns, and it means this site grows slowly on purpose.
The end goal is AI for everyone — the advantage should not belong only to the people who already speak the jargon.
What you'll find
The blog
Write-ups from building AI systems — LLM applications, agents, and the engineering around them. The decisions, the dead ends, and the reasoning behind both. Not tutorials rewritten from documentation.
Tooling worth your time
A short list rather than a directory. A tool only appears here after it has been used on real work, and each entry says what it is actually good for. There are no star ratings and no scores — this site has no community to average, and a number invented to fill a column is worse than no number.
Builds
Whole projects taken end to end and written up the way they were actually built — architecture calls, what broke, and a repo you can clone. Not demo videos.
Starter kits
Clone-and-go starter kits — working repos that stand up in minutes with the boring parts already decided, so your time goes into the part that is actually yours.
Notes
A learning log of the sharpest thinking from the people ahead of you — interviews, threads, and talks summarized in my own words with their takeaways, timestamps wired into the original video. Chinese-language sources get surfaced for English readers.
What it isn't
An SEO surface, an affiliate funnel, or a feed of everything that trended this week. There is no value in another list assembled by someone who never opened the thing they are recommending.
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