Blog
Ashot's personal articles — the primary source.
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An ad video without a camera crew: how an AI employee shot it in one evening
13 seconds of talking video with no camera and no editor — three steps any small business in Tashkent can repeat.
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Why I Named Her Mila
Mila — from “dear” and “gracious”. Why my AI assistant's name is not decoration but the rule she works by every day.
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A Telegram site in one day
A mini app right inside the bot: practices, meditations and a quiz. A coach's portal built in one day with no programmers, with an AI assistant.
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Subscription or API: how I pay for intelligence
The same model costs $20 a month or exactly as much as you used. My numbers, three questions to choose by, and what the September 22 price war changed.
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Five Co-Founder Roles: How to Find Yours — Now That Expertise Is No Longer Earned Over Years
AI hands out expertise instantly and for free — so your role is now defined by character, not profession. Five roles by product life stage (an idea by Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code): Inventor, Builder, Jeweler, Gardener, Keeper. Each one's essence, strength and shadow — plus the quiz “Which of the five are you?”.
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How to Get Powerful AI for Free: A Roundup of APIs That Don't Ask for Money
Not a “14-day trial”, but permanently free LLM APIs: Groq, Cerebras, Gemini Flash, Mistral (1 billion tokens a month). What actually works, how to plug it in within 5 minutes, and where the pitfalls hide.
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Who Is Ashot. Why I Took This Name
My name is Shakhruz Shavkatovich Ashirov. Ashot has been my pen name since 2022. This is a story about roots, nationalities, and what it means to me to be a citizen of the world.
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