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AI

Machine learning, assistants, and the shape of software.

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Technology,  AI

In the Era of ChatGPT and friends

If you can no longer tell whether ChatGPT or a human wrote a piece of text, what does that do to authenticity and trust in what we read?

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Technology,  AI

Bing's great comeback

Microsoft wired ChatGPT into Bing and used the waitlist to push Bing onto millions of devices — pure marketing genius in my book.

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Technology,  AI,  Opinions

DeepSeek R1 and the week the pricing story broke

When DeepSeek dropped R1, my first reaction was not hype — it was spreadsheet panic. The comfortable pricing story suddenly had a counterexample.

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Technology,  AI,  Code

The week coding assistants stopped pretending to be autocomplete

Claude 3.7 Sonnet was the first time I caught myself delegating context, not lines. AI coding assistants stopped pretending to be autocomplete.

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AI,  Opinions,  Code

AI code review is the bottleneck — writing got cheap

Agents fill the merge queue faster than humans can read. The constraint moved from typing to verification — and most teams still review like nothing changed.

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Technology,  AI,  Code,  Opinions

Vibe Coding: An Honest Take After Three Years of AI-Assisted Development

Three years of AI-assisted development later, vibe coding is real. The thinking is yours, the judgment is yours — the typing was never the point.

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AI,  Code,  Tools

Using Claude Code's parallel agents to collaborate on a feature

The single-agent model has a ceiling. Claude Code's parallel agents let you split a feature into independent pieces and work like a focused team.

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Ionic,  Technology,  AI,  Code,  Personal

Three similar Ionic apps, one Nx monorepo, and a lot of AI-assisted glue work

How we merged three Ionic/Angular/Capacitor codebases into a single Nx workspace so a small team could stop maintaining the same code in three places.

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AI,  Code,  Testing,  Opinions

Guardrails beat guidelines — how to keep AI-generated code honest

You cannot prompt AI-generated code into being reliable. What works is what always worked with new hires — guardrails that say no.

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AI,  Code,  Tools

Let the big model write the manual — using Fable 5 to make smaller models better

I stopped pointing the frontier model at my backlog and started using it to write the Skills and guidelines my cheaper models read.

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AI,  Tools,  Tips

One AGENTS.md for every coding agent — stop maintaining three rule files

Put shared project rules in AGENTS.md, keep a thin CLAUDE.md that imports it, and leave Skills for verbs — so Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex stop drifting apart.

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AI,  Tools,  Tips

Building a second brain in Obsidian — and telling my AI agents what not to write there

I finally built an Obsidian second brain that stuck — by writing down what my AI agents are and aren't allowed to put in it.