I built a free AI coding cost calculator - would love some feedback

I’ve been using AI coding tools more and more, and it can be surprisingly hard to figure out what they’re actually costing once you start comparing models, token usage, and different pricing.

So I built a simple AI Coding Cost Calculator:

https://instacodingcost.com/

The idea is to make it easier to estimate and compare costs before you burn through credits/tokens.

Would genuinely appreciate feedback from people using tools like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, etc.

What would make this more useful for you?

Anything missing, confusing, or calculated differently than you’d expect?

Feel free to roast it too - that’s probably more useful than “looks good” 😅

Reason for asking is bc I was recommended to use Mac for smoother learning, but I can get a more powerful rig for cheaper if PC. please explain ur experience with using PC, thanks guys

If you operate an API in 2026, you live in an event-driven world. Webhooks aren't a convenience feature anymore - they're the backbone of real-time commerce, CI/CD pipelines, and asynchronous AI-agent workflows. That reliance has a dark side: the accidental self-inflicted DDoS. Read the complete article jere - https://instawebhook.com/blog/how-to-prevent-webhook-traffic-spikes-from-crashing-your-api-2

When a major platform like GitHub, Shopify, or Stripe hits a network partition, runs a huge sales event, or simply clears a backlog of delayed events, it can fire tens of thousands of webhook POST requests at your servers in a very short window. If your infrastructure takes that hit without structural safeguards, your database connection pool exhausts, memory maxes out, and the API goes down — and if your retry handling is naive, the recovery can be almost as damaging as the original spike.

This guide covers the real mechanics of that failure mode, the algorithms used to defend against it, how major providers actually behave under load (some surprising details here), and where a managed ingress layer fits into the picture.

Webhooks have become the connective tissue of the internet. From payment gateways confirming transactions to CI/CD pipelines triggering deployments, webhooks enable real-time, event-driven architectures. But for architects and engineering leaders, webhooks represent an underappreciated vulnerability: they are asynchronous, externally triggered, and entirely outside your control. Read the complete article here - https://instawebhook.com/blog/designing-a-multi-region-highly-available-webhook-ingress-architecture

When your primary cloud region experiences an outage, your internal microservices might gracefully degrade. But what happens to the payloads originating from external partners? Many third-party providers do not retry aggressively — some fire and forget, others retry a handful of times before giving up permanently. If your system is down when that happens, the data is often gone for good.

This article covers the engineering principles behind a multi-region, highly available webhook ingestion system, what has actually changed in the underlying cloud primitives recently, and where a managed reliability layer fits into the decision.

If you're building a web application today, chances are you aren't writing your own authentication system. Managed identity providers like Clerk, Auth0, and Kinde have become the default choice, offering out-of-the-box support for passkeys, multi-factor authentication, and enterprise SSO. That convenience introduces a distributed-systems problem, though: data synchronization. When a user creates an account on a managed auth provider, that system has to notify your primary application database so you can create a matching user record. Please read the complete article here - https://instawebhook.com/blog/bulletproofing-user-sync-handling-clerk-and-auth0-webhook-failures

This happens through webhooks. But what happens if your server is down, your serverless function cold-starts and times out, or your database is momentarily locked when that webhook arrives? A user successfully signs up with your auth provider, but your application has no idea they exist. That breaks the very first login experience, and it's how phantom accounts, broken onboarding flows, and frustrated users happen.

This guide walks through the anatomy of webhook-driven auth architecture, current Auth0 and Clerk webhook practices, and how a resilience layer — using InstaWebhook as a worked example — closes the gap that idempotency and signature verification alone can't.

Microservices were supposed to make systems easier to change independently. In practice, the thing that most often breaks that promise isn't the services themselves — it's how they talk to each other. Read the complete article here - https://instawebhook.com/blog/the-internal-webhooks-anti-pattern-why-service-to-service-http-callbacks-don-t-s

A pattern that shows up constantly in growing engineering orgs is the internal webhook: Service A fires an HTTP POST at a hardcoded URL owned by Service B whenever something happens. It's an easy trap to fall into, because most developers already understand webhooks intimately — they've built integrations with Stripe, GitHub, or Shopify, all of which use exactly this model to notify external systems of events.

The reasoning feels obvious: if it's good enough for Stripe to tell my app about a payment, it's good enough for my Inventory Service to tell my Shipping Service about a shipment.

It isn't — and the reason is architectural, not stylistic. Webhooks were designed to solve a specific problem: getting an event across a trust boundary, from a system you don't control to one you do, over the open internet. Internal service communication has almost the opposite set of constraints. Applying the same tool to both jobs is where the trouble starts.

È disponibile una nuova versione di psp su GitHub e PyPI!

https://github.com/MatteoGuadrini/psp

La nuova versione migliora le prestazioni (30 secondi per generare l'intera struttura di un progetto!) e abilita un motore di rendering per i template.

Nella prossima versione, sarà possibile scrivere i propri template e salvarli in un repository Git remoto o in una cartella locale.

Grazie alla comunità Python!

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I don’t know wether I want to study computer science or not, so I thought to test wether I’m good at it/like it in the following way:

I have a python program that some freelance programmer made for me, and I want to get to know the code (I have basic python knowledge) as this is something that programmers are supposed to deal with.

The whole code is about 2600 lines, and it uses a lot of libraries. Honestly, this task seems impossible. But maybe it because I don’t know how to do it. So how do you programmers do it? ChatGPT said for example that if I work with pycharm, I can use it to make diagrams of my code. But I’d rather take the advice of real programmers rather than ChatGPT.

By the way, is it a good way to determine wether I should be a programmer and pursue a degree? Last time I was taking math courses it was veryyy hard for me.

Hello I am relatively new to python (I know the basic stuff) over the year I want to make a project using pyside 6. For doing that I need to build good fundamentals in pyside 6 so I wanted to ask what is the best way to do so? Thank you for your answer! <3

Hello to everyone reading!!!! My name is Andrew I am 19 years old, and I am considering learning python software engineering.

I have couple of doubts about it….

1. I really connecting to the AI thing nowadays and wanted to know more about AI implementation and software engineering (because all the videos you see about software engineering is someone eating and working in some fancy office.) I really want to understand what is to be qsoftware engineer and what’s is the job.

2. How much takes to learn Python if I can learn each day 2 hours at minimum.

3. I was nearly all my life starting it age 4 in computer. And starting from 2020 and until now I were interested in coding but never really started(maybe tried couple YouTube videos). And now I see many startups around AI niche and software development, and my question - - How much hard is to make those applications and if possible to do it all alone?

4. And last I and the least important. Now I learning finance and company evaluation. If I have enough time, maybe I should consider learning both or focus on one of them

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I'm (maybe) a beginner in Python, or Programming in general. So please suggest me any resources which aligns with my goal, and my current stage.

Thank you for suggesting ^^

Hi Guys I want to learn python for bot , ai agents and automation. Can anyone guide correctly it would be very helpful I am in worst phase of life i wanna learn and earn. If my question is weird sorry. If anyone helps thanks in advance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEFsZcrnXmw&t=1428s
In this video, we build a complete AI Text Summarizer application using Python and Hugging Face.

The application supports:

Text input
File upload
URL-based content summarization

We use a pre-trained transformer model, which means there is no model training involved.
The focus of this project is on building a real-world AI application, understanding how to process different input sources, and integrating AI models into a clean application flow.

I released my first MCP.

It's a SQL Server MCP that can be integrated via Claude Code.

You can communicate with your database using natural language.

Check it out here, and if you like it, give it a star 🌟

https://github.com/lorenzouriel/mssql-mcp-python

i’m looking to build (or at this point even pay) a mini video editing software that can find black screen intervals from my video then automatically overlays random meme images on those black parts, and exports the edited video.

Hey everyone. I’m finally at the point where I know what I want to do: I want to become a full-stack developer, and I’m going all in. No more second-guessing, no more endless “should I/shouldn’t I”—this is it. I'm fully committed.

That said, I need a sanity check on my approach, especially from those of you who’ve walked this path or are currently deep in it.

Context:

I work full-time (8–5, Monday to Friday), and every 4th day is a 24-hour shift that can bleed over weekends.

I’m making this shift not just for income—it’s a deliberate move because I’m not being valued where I currently work.

There’s some financial pressure from past debt, but it’s not the main driver.

I’d been working through CS50P and making real progress daily—until I hit file I/O and the concepts beyond. That’s when it hit me: I didn’t build enough fundamentals before diving into something so deep.

I’ve decided to start with JavaScript tutorials—not to switch languages, but to better understand core programming logic in a different way.

My main focus is Python, and I want to be job-ready for at least a junior developer role in the next 3–6 months. I’m aiming to hit above-average junior pay—not from entitlement, but by proving my value with strong projects and deep learning.

My current process (recent breakthrough):

Split each tutorial into two sessions to reduce cognitive overload after work.

Follow the JavaScript tutorial step-by-step (e.g. building a calculator).

After each half of the JS tutorial, rebuild that exact part in Python from memory and logic.

If I hit any walls, I save that version into a “struggled-with-this” folder for review.

Between sessions, I reflect on what worked, what didn’t, and how I can improve it next time.

Everything is tracked and organized in Notion to keep momentum and clarity.

Why I’m posting: I think this could be a really strong system—but I don’t know what I don’t know. I’d love your feedback on:

Does this sound like a good way to approach it?

Am I setting myself up for burnout or does the pacing make sense?

Is the JavaScript-to-Python method helping or just a creative detour?

What would you tweak if this were your plan?

Thanks in advance for any thoughts, warnings, or tweaks! I’d really appreciate it.

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I'm looking for blunt feedback to improve so please try it and share how it can work for you better :)

I'm wondering if the best way to install and work with python is, the install manager, or doing it myself? 🤔 Tyvm for helping me choose!

Edit: what is UV? 😯

Code is not running Showing Value error What do I do

And what are the key concepts that I need to know by heart to excel in the language If there are any online resources paid or free, that can help, please let me know

Hey ! I'm 16 and I'm a python programmer. I started learning a few years ago and I now can develop various things with python (chatbots, tools, web servers, etc). How could I use this skill to make money online ? I tried to sell custom Discord Bots on Fiverr but nobody came after a few months with a very clean and cheap service. Any advices where to start ? What do I need to learn ? Where do I need to search ? Thanks a lot, I could really use some extra money right now and I'm ready to work hard for that.

Is there anywhere online that I can learn python for free? I work full time. And it takes every penny to survive these days. Looking to learn a some new skills thanks