Maya Chen

Maya Chen builds AI-powered products for a living and has spent the last several years integrating language models, image generators, and automation tools into real shipping software. She reviews tools the way an operator does: by putting them inside an actual workflow and measuring what changes.

Her reviews lead with the unglamorous parts, pricing tiers that bite at scale, rate limits, export friction, and the gap between a slick demo and a tool you can trust on deadline. When a tool is the wrong fit, she says so and names a better one.

• Ships production software built on LLM and generative-AI APIs
• Hands-on with 100+ AI tools across writing, code, image, video, and ops
• Tracks pricing and model changes weekly, not from press releases