AI subscriptions add up faster than you notice. I'm paying $236/month across seven AI tools — and every company I'm giving money to says they're losing money on me. The math only works because of VC subsidies that won't last. When the bill catches up, you'll wish you'd built your own stack. This playlist tracks what AI actually costs, why it's about to cost more, and what happens when you stop renting and start owning your compute. Topics covered: • What you're really paying every month (the subscription audit) • Why "$20/mo" turns into $200/mo (the enshittification cycle) • Self-hosting the AI tools you actually use • Replacing SaaS with a homelab — what works, what doesn't • When AI is genuinely cheaper than humans, and when it isn't If you've ever stared at a credit card statement wondering when "just one more subscription" became $100+/month, this playlist is for you.
Curated by: Codacus (15 videos)
Perplexity just launched Perplexity Computer — a product that spawns a virtual sandbox per query and bills you twice: once for LLM tokens, a second time for sandbox runtime. By the minute. For a computer. I already own a computer. You probably do too. So I built AgentBox — the version you don't rent. It's not a better Perplexity Computer. It's the open-source version that runs on hardware already sitting on your desk. Under the hood it's embarrassingly simple: • An LLM orchestrator (OpenRouter, any model) • Docker for isolation — the one real reason sandboxes exist • A thin Next.js + Express manager • Per-chat persistent /workspace volumes • Sub-agents for dev, shell, browser, deploy, cron Nothing invented. Just assembled. ~2000 lines of code wiring pieces you already have into a local Perplexity Computer experience — with browser automation, terminal, live deploys, and scheduled tasks. The thesis: isolation is a solved problem. Docker has existed for a decade. Your laptop, your homelab, your idle mini PC already have more compute than any cloud sandbox you could rent by the minute. So why are we paying rent on both? 🔗 Repo + self-host guide: [https://github.com/thecodacus/agentbox] ⏱ Chapters 00:00 Already yours 00:45 Perplexity Computer, honestly 02:10 The absurd question 03:20 Isolation is Docker 04:15 Hardware on my desk 05:30 What I built — AgentBox 06:45 Live demo: "build me a todo app" 08:20 I didn't invent anything 09:10 Self-host it 🛠 Stack • Next.js 15 + React 19 • Express manager + Docker • SQLite for chat history • OpenRouter (minimax-m2 / any model) • Playwright + noVNC for browser_agent • Rendiv for this video's graphics If you've ever looked at your cloud bill and thought "I already own a server that could do this" — this one's for you. #selfhosted #docker #perplexity #localai #homelab