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Three fixes. Three confident explanations. Zero progress. After a failed client demo and two weeks of pain...

Two days chasing a sync bug. Every API call returned 200 OK. No errors in the console. The AI iterated confidently on symptoms while the architecture...

We had architecture documents, code smell guides, testing strategies, and a global AI instructions file with every lesson learned.

Someone dropped the classic comment under my Tailwind post. It's the same false choice that shows up with every new tool: ORMs vs SQL...

ChatGPT will not write your novel for you. After months of trying, here's what AI actually does well for fiction—and where it fails catastrophically.

Part 2 of the SMS AI series. RAG transforms generic AI into useful AI. Here's how I added vector search, conversation memory, and production resilience.

Can I text an AI instead of opening another app? Turns out yes—and it validates a compelling business model.

In which the author documents humanity's imminent obsolescence at the hands of our mechanical overlords. (Or does he?)

LinkedIn hot takes say AI replaces coders. After a year building production apps with AI assistance...

I built a Discord bot to summarize hundreds of messages using OpenAI - then discovered that all Discord bots run as a single instance serving every server.

You can run real AI models locally - no internet, no fees, complete privacy. Here's how to get started with Ollama and why you'd want to.

I exported two years of AI chats and used embeddings, clustering, and topic segmentation to find patterns.

I asked two AIs to help debug performance issues. One maintained context and found the root cause.