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  • Why the Next Financial Crisis Will Be Caused by an Algorithm Nobody Understands

    Jun 11, 2026

    • Jakub Jirák

    Algorithmic trading, AI risk models, and HFT have created systemic financial risks that regulators cannot understand or control before damage is done.

    financeartificial-intelligenceriskalgorithmic-tradingregulation
  • Apple Intelligence vs. Local LLMs — What Apple Doesn't Tell You

    Jun 11, 2026

    • Jakub Jirák

    An honest comparison of Apple Intelligence and self-hosted local LLMs on Mac. What runs on-device vs Private Cloud Compute, the 3B model's hard limits, and when to run your own models with Ollama instead.

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  • Windsurf: Keeping the editor quiet until you ask for help

    Jun 11, 2026

    • Jakub Jirák

    A field-tested take on keeping the editor quiet until you ask for help with Windsurf: what it rewards, where it breaks, and how to keep the workflow honest.

    windsurfai-idecascadeai-codingsoftware-engineering
  • M1, M2, M3, M4, M5: Does It Still Make Sense to Chase a New Mac Every Year?

    Jun 11, 2026

    • Jakub Jirák

    Analyze whether annual Mac upgrades still make sense in the Apple Silicon era. Explore the diminishing returns from M1 to M5 and discover the optimal.

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  • How China Built a Parallel Internet (And Why It's Actually Better for AI)

    Jun 10, 2026

    • Jakub Jirák

    China's internet isolation forced the creation of massive Chinese-language datasets that Western companies lack, creating unexpected AI training advantages nobody planned for.

    chinaartificial-intelligenceinternetdatageopolitics
  • Your Mac Can Summarize Any YouTube Video in 30 Seconds

    Jun 10, 2026

    • Jakub Jirák

    Summarize any YouTube video locally on your Mac with yt-dlp, Whisper, and Ollama. Includes a copy-paste shell script, no-code alternatives with Raycast and Shortcuts, and honest timing benchmarks.

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  • Cursor: Composer runs that land a feature in a single reviewable diff

    Jun 10, 2026

    • Jakub Jirák

    A field-tested take on composer runs that land a feature in a single reviewable diff with Cursor: what it rewards, where it breaks, and how to keep the workflow honest.

    cursorai-idedeveloper-toolsai-codingsoftware-engineering
  • Why Traditional Apps Will Soon Be a Thing of the Past

    Jun 10, 2026

    • Jakub Jirák

    Explore why traditional single-purpose apps are dying. AI agents, superapps, and voice interfaces are converging to replace the app model we've known for.

    artificial-intelligenceappstechnologyvoice-interfacesfuture-of-software
  • The Biggest Lie in Tech Is Being Told Again, Louder Than Ever

    Jun 9, 2026

    • Jakub Jirák

    From Facebook's 'connecting the world' to AI's 'democratizing intelligence' — tech's democratization promise always becomes centralization. Here's why it's structural.

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  • Run Stable Diffusion on Your Mac — No Cloud, No Limits, No Cost

    Jun 9, 2026

    • Jakub Jirák

    How to run Stable Diffusion and Flux locally on Apple Silicon with Draw Things and ComfyUI. Real generation times per chip, unified memory advantages, LoRAs, and an honest comparison with Midjourney.

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  • Google Gemini: Using Gemini CLI as glue between Cloud Run and your local repo

    Jun 9, 2026

    • Jakub Jirák

    A field-tested take on using Gemini CLI as glue between Cloud Run and your local repo with Google Gemini: what it rewards, where it breaks, and how to keep the workflow honest.

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