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  • France Had the Best AI Research in the World in 1990. Then This Happened.

    Jul 13, 2026

    • Jakub Jirák

    France had world-class AI research in the 1980s. How it lost that edge — and whether Mistral can reverse it — is a lesson every country should study.

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  • The Spreadsheet Killer — Local AI Data Analysis on Your Mac

    Jul 13, 2026

    • Jakub Jirák

    Natural-language data analysis with local LLMs on Apple Silicon. Why LLMs should write pandas code instead of doing math, a local code-interpreter setup with Ollama and Jupyter, and prompt patterns for analyzing bank CSV exports privately.

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  • Agentic coding: Guardrails before autonomy, always

    Jul 13, 2026

    • Jakub Jirák

    A field-tested take on guardrails before autonomy, always with Agentic coding: what it rewards, where it breaks, and how to keep the workflow honest.

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  • How Apple Tests Products in Extreme Scenarios Users Will Never See

    Jul 13, 2026

    • Jakub Jirák

    Explore Apple's extreme product testing methods including temperature chambers, robot armies, and simulated disasters. Learn why testing for impossible.

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  • Why Neuroscience Got AI Wrong for Half a Century

    Jul 12, 2026

    • Jakub Jirák

    The brain-as-computer metaphor dominated AI research for fifty years and actively set the field back. Here's exactly how, and what replaced it.

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  • AI Voice Cloning on Mac — Useful, Creepy, and How to Do It Right

    Jul 12, 2026

    • Jakub Jirák

    How to clone your own voice locally on a Mac. macOS Personal Voice setup walkthrough, open-source TTS models on Apple Silicon, honest quality expectations, and the consent-based ethics rules for AI voice cloning.

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  • MCP servers: Least-privilege auth for MCP in a real enterprise

    Jul 12, 2026

    • Jakub Jirák

    A field-tested take on least-privilege auth for MCP in a real enterprise with MCP servers: what it rewards, where it breaks, and how to keep the workflow honest.

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  • The Future of Work: Hardware Is No Longer the Limit – We Are

    Jul 12, 2026

    • Jakub Jirák

    Discover why modern hardware vastly outpaces human productivity. Learn how cognitive limits, not processor speeds, now define work output and what you.

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  • The Data Center Workers Nobody Writes About

    Jul 11, 2026

    • Jakub Jirák

    AI runs on human labor the industry keeps invisible — from data center workers in 40°C server rooms to $1/hour content moderators in Kenya reviewing atrocities.

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  • Why Your Next Home Server Should Be a Mac Mini, Not a Raspberry Pi

    Jul 11, 2026

    • Jakub Jirák

    Mac Mini vs Raspberry Pi as a home server in the AI era. Real power consumption measurements, local LLM inference benchmarks, headless macOS server setup, used M-series Mini price math, and when the Pi still wins.

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  • AI coding workflows: Scorecard question: did this PR have to exist?

    Jul 11, 2026

    • Jakub Jirák

    A field-tested take on the scorecard question: did this PR have to exist? with AI coding workflows: what it rewards, where it breaks, and how to keep the workflow honest.

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