Tag: LLM

AI & Machine Learning Oct 14, 2026 • 4 min read

Stop Picking Between Code Review Tools, Pick Based on Your Actual Workflow

Last month, I spent two hours in a Slack thread with my team debating whether we should switch from CodeRabbit to Claude's code review offerings. The conversation kept circling the same question: which one catches more bugs? By hour two, I realized we were asking the wrong questi...

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AI & Machine Learning Oct 13, 2026 • 5 min read

The Local LLM Fantasy Nobody's Talking About: Why Your Benchmarks Are Lying to You

Last month, I spent a weekend setting up Qwen locally because I was tired of Claude API bills. I had a 24GB GPU gathering dust, I'd seen the SWE-bench scores, and the math seemed obvious. By Sunday afternoon, I had a working setup. By Monday morning, I realized I'd completely mis...

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Web Development Oct 9, 2026 • 5 min read

The AI Financing Arms Race Is Making Me Rethink Our Entire Cost Model

I was in a stand-up meeting last week when our DevOps lead casually mentioned we're spending more on inference calls than we budgeted for the entire quarter. Nothing new for any team scaling an AI feature, right? Except this time it hit different. I wasn't hearing about model rel...

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AI & Machine Learning Oct 8, 2026 • 4 min read

LLMs Can't Do Your Accounting: Why I'm Not Trusting ChatGPT With Financial Logic

I was sitting in a client meeting last month when someone casually suggested we use Claude to validate transaction reconciliations. I nodded politely, but internally I cringed. A few weeks earlier, I'd watched a model confidently flip a positive number to negative while claiming...

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AI & Machine Learning Oct 7, 2026 • 4 min read

Why I'm Suddenly Worried About the LLMs I'm Shipping to Clients

I was building a code review assistant last month when something unsettling happened. Claude gave me a perfect explanation of why you shouldn't mutate state in React hooks. Then I pushed back, confidently, casually, with "actually, I'm pretty sure React handles that automatically n...

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Web Development Oct 7, 2026 • 4 min read

I Gave Away My Code for Free, And Watched Someone Else Get Rich From It

Last year, I open-sourced a utility library that solved a real problem I'd been wrestling with in production. The documentation was solid, the code was clean, and I released it under MIT because that's what developers do, right? We share. We build in public. We contribute to the...

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LLM Startups

Web Development Oct 6, 2026 • 5 min read

Why I'm Finally Comfortable Letting AI Make Financial Decisions (Sort Of)

I spent three years building payment systems before I convinced myself that machine learning had no business near refund logic. I'd seen too many startups deploy models that either rejected legitimate claims out of pure statistical conservatism or approved fraud because the train...

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Web Development Oct 4, 2026 • 5 min read

Stop Building in the Cloud's Shadow: Why Local-First AI Actually Matters Now

A few months ago, I was debugging why a customer's AI workflow kept ordering duplicate items. Turned out the system had permission to execute transactions, and a loop in the agent's reasoning caused it to retry, successfully, three times. The customer caught it, but I realized in t...

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LLM OpenAI

AI & Machine Learning Oct 3, 2026 • 4 min read

Why I Finally Stopped Ignoring How LLMs Actually Work in Production

Last month, I hit a wall I should have seen coming. A client asked me to build a chatbot that could handle "a few thousand concurrent users" on a modest GPU setup. I smiled confidently, threw together a basic inference service with a popular LLM framework, deployed it, and watche...

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LLM Python

Web Development Oct 3, 2026 • 5 min read

Stop Fighting CI/CD Logs Like a Caveman: Let Claude Do the Archaeology

Three months ago, I spent ninety minutes debugging a GitHub Actions failure that turned out to be a missing `s3:GetObject` permission in an IAM role. Ninety minutes. The actual fix was changing one line in a Terraform policy document. I scrolled through what felt like ten thousan...

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