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Apple Notes + AI — The Knowledge System Hiding in Plain Sight
Turn Apple Notes into an AI-powered knowledge system: Shortcuts automations, smart folders, OCR search, audio transcription summaries, local RAG export, and when Notes plus AI beats Obsidian or Notion.
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Cursor: Resetting indexes when completions start feeling stale
A field-tested take on resetting indexes when completions start feeling stale with Cursor: what it rewards, where it breaks, and how to keep the workflow honest.
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How to Recognize Technology That Will Still Be Relevant in Five Years
Learn how to identify technologies that will remain relevant for years versus those that will fade quickly. Discover practical signals, historical.
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How the People Who Build AI Actually Use It (It's Very Different from How They Describe It)
ML engineers at frontier AI labs use AI tools with heavy caution and human review. The gap between internal use and how AI is sold externally is enormous.
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Your MacBook Battery Can Handle 8 Hours of Local AI — Here's How
Local AI on MacBook battery power: measured battery drain for 3B, 8B, and 32B LLMs on Apple Silicon, OLLAMA_KEEP_ALIVE tuning, Low Power Mode, and offline AI workflows for flights.
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Google Gemini: Pairing Gemini with Code Assist for refactors that span a whole module
A field-tested take on pairing Gemini with Code Assist for refactors that span a whole module with Google Gemini: what it rewards, where it breaks, and how to keep the workflow honest.
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Why Most Product Reviews Have Zero Value for Real Decision Making
Discover why most product reviews fail to help real purchasing decisions. From affiliate bias to context mismatch, learn what makes reviews useless and.
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The Real Reason Silicon Valley 'Moved Fast and Broke Things' (It Wasn't a Philosophy)
Move fast and break things was never a philosophy — it was a rational strategy for conditions that no longer exist. AI startups still pretend otherwise.
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The AI Reading Workflow That Lets Me Process 50 Articles a Day
AI reading workflow on Mac: article capture with reader mode, local LLM triage with Ollama, a verbatim summarization prompt template, RSS newsletter filtering, and the honest math behind processing 50 articles daily.
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ChatGPT Codex: Keeping the human in the loop by requiring explicit acceptance
A field-tested take on keeping the human in the loop by requiring explicit acceptance with ChatGPT Codex: what it rewards, where it breaks, and how to keep the workflow honest.
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What Happens When We Stop Chasing New Features and Start Optimizing Old Ones
Explore what happens when software teams stop building new features and focus on optimizing existing ones. From reduced bugs to happier users, discover.
