Published May 10, 2026, 10:30 AM EDT Nolen began their writing career in 2019, with three years dedicated to editing the Creative section at MakeUseOf . Their expertise lies at the crossroads of technology and creativity, covering areas like photography, video editing, and graphic design. Outside of work, you'll often find Nolen diving into a good book, writing their own stories, or playing video games. The longer I use Claude , the more I realize how many of my app subscriptions were covering problems it already handles. I use Claude every single day now - research, brainstorming, building things, processing information - and somewhere in that daily use I just stopped reaching for my other tools as much. Not because they're bad products necessarily, but because Claude was already doing the job and I was paying for overlapping use cases. There are also genuinely good free alternatives for most of what I was paying for, which makes the math even harder to justify.…