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AI & Machine Learning Oct 6, 2026 • 4 min read

I Wasted $200 on an AI Tool Before Learning This Lesson

Last month, I signed up for one of those shiny all-in-one AI platforms. The landing page had everything: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, image generation, document summarization. Twelve different features arranged beautifully. The price seemed reasonable for a month of "productivity." I...

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Claude ChatGPT

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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LLM Startups

AI & Machine Learning Oct 5, 2026 • 4 min read

I've Been Sleeping on Network Protocols While My GPUs Burn Money

Last month, I got pulled into a late-night Slack thread about our training jobs taking longer than expected. My colleague casually mentioned switching from TCP to something called Homa, and I had the embarrassing realization that I'd been treating network transport as a black box...

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AWS Machine Learning

Web Development Oct 5, 2026 • 5 min read

Why I'm Skeptical About MCP as the "Universal Agent Interface"

I spent three hours last week debugging why my error-tracking agent couldn't create bug reports automatically. It turns out the tool I was relying on didn't actually support *creating* anything, only reading. I was staring at beautifully organized API documentation that showed me...

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Claude AI Agents

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

AI Assistants Are Great Until They Need to Actually Do Your Job

I've been watching the OpenAI Dot conversation with genuine interest, and honestly, it hit something I've been frustrated about for months. Last Tuesday, I asked Claude to help me set up a new Postgres migration, and after thirty minutes of back-and-forth, I realized the assistan...

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Claude ChatGPT

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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Claude LLM

AI & Machine Learning Oct 2, 2026 • 5 min read

The AI Agent Tax: Why My Code Gets Dumber Every Week

I realized something frustrating last month. Claude Code had just suggested an error handling pattern that I'd explicitly *not* used in my codebase for the last six weeks. It was suggesting the old way, the way I'd deliberately moved away from. I'd spent an afternoon refactoring t...

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Claude AI Agents

Web Development Oct 2, 2026 • 4 min read

Why Vector Search Made Me Reconsider Everything I Thought I Knew About Search

I built my first search feature in 2015. It was a simple keyword matcher, split the query, look for exact matches in a database table, return results. It worked until it didn't. A user searched for "fast shoes" and got results for "quick footwear" and "speedy sneakers," but not th...

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I Wasted $200 on an AI Tool Before Learning This Lesson

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

I've Been Sleeping on Network Protocols While My GPUs Burn Money

Why I'm Skeptical About MCP as the "Universal Agent Interface"

AI Assistants Are Great Until They Need to Actually Do Your Job

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

Why I Finally Stopped Ignoring How LLMs Actually Work in Production

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

The AI Agent Tax: Why My Code Gets Dumber Every Week

Why Vector Search Made Me Reconsider Everything I Thought I Knew About Search

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