AI & innovation.
The latest stories in this strand of studio work — filtered from the complete news and insights index.
ArtCraft vs Adobe: why this studio moved
We cancelled Adobe's subscription and moved the studio to ArtCraft, the free open-source suite built from a clean room in Rust. A week in: it's lightning fast, it skips thirty years of bloat, and it does the jobs we need.
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Our AI coding toolkit, 18 months in: the honest scoreboard
Copilot, Codex, ChatGPT, Cursor, OpenCode and Freebuff — eighteen months of daily use, no benchmark tables, just what each one is actually like to work with and what it does to your bill.
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From concept to creative platform: the story behind Veyra Studio.
How an AI-assisted creative production platform went from naming and branding in April 2026 to an interface-led web experience for planning video work before the shoot.
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NeoDrop: exploring a NAS-first approach to file storage.
Concept work on a NAS-backed file-storage and synchronisation experience: product identity, macOS menu-bar design and installer packaging.
Read the storyHow we use AI to accelerate software development without losing quality.
AI-assisted coding in practice: scaffolding, testing, debugging and review — accelerating experienced engineers, never replacing engineering judgement.
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Freebuff and the rise of the free coding agent
Freebuff gives away what others charge monthly for, funded by ads instead of subscriptions. We have been trying it — and it says something bigger about where agent pricing is heading.
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ChatGPT as a research partner: how we plan software before we build it
Before a line of code exists, most of the work is questions. Here's how we use ChatGPT to pressure-test ideas, compare approaches and turn loose briefs into buildable plans.
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