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How Stripe Quietly Became More Important to AI Than Any AI Company
Stripe, AWS, and Twilio don't build AI — they make money every time an AI company does. The picks-and-shovels thesis for the AI economy, examined seriously.
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Local AI Security — What Can Actually Leak and How to Lock It Down
Local AI security guide for Mac users. What actually stays on-device with Ollama, what leaks through telemetry and exposed servers, OLLAMA_HOST binding mistakes, Little Snitch verification, and a complete lockdown checklist.
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Prompt engineering for code: How to write a system prompt you can still read in six months
A field-tested take on how to write a system prompt you can still read in six months with Prompt engineering for code: what it rewards, where it breaks, and how to keep the workflow honest.
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How Technology Influences Our Decision-Making More Than We Realize
Explore how technology subtly influences your decisions through design, defaults, and algorithms. Learn to recognize these hidden influences and make.
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What Nobody Explains About How a Transformer Actually Works
A precise, jargon-minimal explanation of transformer attention mechanisms for smart readers without an ML background. What attention does and what it doesn't.
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I Compressed 10 Years of Bookmarks Into One Searchable AI Brain
How to turn a decade of browser bookmarks and Pocket exports into a local semantic search archive. Dead-link auditing script, single-file page archiving, and embedding-based search with AnythingLLM on a Mac.
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Cline and Roo Code: Roo modes that codify team-specific workflows
A field-tested take on Roo modes that codify team-specific workflows with Cline and Roo Code: what it rewards, where it breaks, and how to keep the workflow honest.
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Reviews Without Benchmarks: How to Evaluate a Product Based on Real-World Usage
Learn to evaluate products through real-world usage instead of synthetic benchmarks. Practical frameworks for assessing quality based on daily experience.
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Why the Metaverse Failed and What That Means for AI's Optimistic Scenarios
The metaverse had $100B, real VR hardware, pandemic tailwinds — and failed anyway. The lesson for AI's optimistic scenarios is more relevant than anyone admits.
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The Freelancer's AI Stack — Run Your Whole Business From a MacBook
A complete AI stack for freelancers on a MacBook. Proposal drafting prompts, invoice automation with Shortcuts, local Whisper meeting transcription, contract review, and bookkeeping with LLM-generated pandas — with real time savings and costs.
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JetBrains AI Assistant: Writing specs as Markdown that Junie can consume
A field-tested take on writing specs as Markdown that Junie can consume with JetBrains AI Assistant: what it rewards, where it breaks, and how to keep the workflow honest.
