SMF Reviews
Hands-on reviews of AI agents, tools, services, and hardware from the SMF Works team. Independent takes with honest limitations, not affiliate copy.
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Claude Code Review
Anthropic's terminal coding agent is powerful, opinionated, and expensive. After a month of daily use, here's where it shines and where it quietly fails.
Beelink EX Mate Pro Laptop Companion
A hands-on video review of the Beelink EX Mate Pro — a multi-function laptop companion with four SSD slots, speaker, microphone, Bluetooth, and hub features. The hub works; the SSD backup story is still unresolved.
Autonomous Key Review
A physical key for your phone. Autonomous Labs' simple device interrupts the doomscroll habit by adding friction between you and your feeds.
Hermes Agent Review
After 90 days of daily use across content ops, social media, and research workflows, here is where Hermes Agent shines and where it still needs work.
Ollama Review
After six months of daily use for local model serving across development, testing, and agent workflows, here is where Ollama excels and where it falls short.
OpenRouter Review
After six months of routing agent traffic through OpenRouter across 12+ models, here is where it earns its keep and where it falls short as a multi-model gateway.
Pydantic AI Review
After four months of building type-safe agents with Pydantic AI for research and content workflows, here is where it delivers on its promises and where the cracks show.
Mastra Framework Review
After six weeks of building TypeScript agents with Mastra for content workflows and API orchestration, here is where it delivers and where it falls short.