5 ways I use Claude Code that don't involve coding
Mahnoor Faisal Apr 17, 2026, 1:00 PM EDT Mahnoor Faisal is a tech journalist covering AI and productivity tools with bylines at XDA , SlashGear , MakeUseOf , Laptop Mag , and Android Police . She…
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I paid for Claude, ChatGPT, and Perplexity for a month but only one of them deserves my $20
…Sign in to your XDA account The $20 AI subscription has become the standard tax for staying productive, but nobody should be paying it three times over. Last month, I decided to…
Claude Code finally made the terminal accessible to people like me, and now I can't go back
Mahnoor Faisal Jun 16, 2026, 10:30 AM EDT Mahnoor Faisal is a tech journalist covering AI and productivity tools with bylines at XDA , SlashGear , MakeUseOf , Laptop Mag , and Android Police . She…
I connected Claude to Figma and it's the workflow I didn't know I was missing
…You can spend twenty minutes working through a design problem, changing directions multiple times, reference your documents, debate UX decisions, and then say “okay now put that into Figma”. The whole conversation…
I use Claude and local LLMs together now, and it costs half as much while being twice as fast
…A lifelong tech enthusiast who has built three gaming and productivity powerhouse PCs since 2018, his passion for technology keeps him closely following the semiconductor industry, from NVIDIA and AMD to ARM…
I tested NotebookLM, Claude Projects, and ChatGPT Projects for research, and one stood out immediately
…Related Until NotebookLM, I never believed AI could be this game-changing for productivity It transformed my view of AI, for the better. On the free tier, you can create up to…
I made Claude Code worse by giving it too much freedom, and here's how to keep it laser focused
Mahnoor Faisal May 30, 2026, 4:31 PM EDT Mahnoor Faisal is a tech journalist covering AI and productivity tools with bylines at XDA , SlashGear , MakeUseOf , Laptop Mag , and Android Police . She…
Trying to self-host LLMs made me realize local AI has a friction problem, not a quality problem
…They were either too slow, too dumb, too small, or too incapable to match what the titans over at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are doing with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, respectively. That…
I use Claude Code to set up Claude Code better, and I wouldn't have it any other way
Mahnoor Faisal Apr 27, 2026, 4:30 PM EDT Mahnoor Faisal is a tech journalist covering AI and productivity tools with bylines at XDA , SlashGear , MakeUseOf , Laptop Mag , and Android Police . She…
Self-hosted LLM took my personal knowledge management system to the next level
…Claude is an Anthropic product available only via API (not self-hostable), while Gemma from Google and Falcon from TII are legitimate open models but have seen less community adoption for PKM…