When I’m rewriting copy at midnight, what scares me most is getting stuck between wanting to try and not daring to try
Last night I was at my computer revising a sales page, pasting three versions back and forth, with the same worry in my head: what if this costs money again and I still can’t figure it out? I’ve been stuck there too. I’ve wasted time before signing up for a pile of tools and not getting a single one to work end to end.
This is worth watching not because it’s new, but because it’s more open
Once this kind of model becomes more open, people like us running one-person businesses get more fallback options. We’re not limited to using it inside one tool; it can also get plugged into more products for writing, customer support, and organizing content. Last month, on a Wednesday afternoon, Lin Ning in Hangzhou was sitting in a coworking space, replying to clients on WeChat while asking AI to revise the wording in a pricing explanation. She told me she wasn’t looking for the absolute frontier. She just wanted something not too expensive, not too closed, and something she could try today. I really felt that. For small teams like ours, getting locked into a single tool is what we fear most.
The cost to replicate this today really isn’t that high
Money: RMB 0-50 is usually enough for a first test. Time: 30-60 minutes. Technical barrier: no coding needed; if we can understand buttons like “New chat” and “Copy result,” we can get started. First step: open the AI tool you already use most, click “New chat” or the model picker, see whether a newly open model is available, and test it on just one real task—for example, “Rewrite this pricing message into a more natural WeChat reply.” Not everyone needs this tool right now. If client volume is still low, skipping it for now is also fine.
If I were at different stages, this is how I’d use it
If I were just getting started, I’d use it for one small task first: rewriting copy or listing content ideas. I wouldn’t jump straight into automation. I’ve messed this up too—I once opened five tools at the same time and ended up with nothing but fatigue.
If I already had one or two clients, I’d use it to organize high-frequency replies, explain pricing, and draft follow-up messages, just to save some mental bandwidth first.
If I were scaling up, I’d pay more attention to the choice that openness gives us: whether the same prompts can move across tools, whether costs can stay steadier, and whether it can connect with our existing workflow later. Getting one small step to run smoothly matters more than chasing the newest buzzword.