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GeneralWhy You Should Stop Optimizing Only for Google and Start Optimizing for AI SearchPeople always get lazy when something easier shows up, and instead of “googling” something and clicking through three blue links and “actually reading” to piece together an answer, they're just asking ChatGPT and going "give me the answer."
LessonsVibe Coding a Real Product? Then You Have to Understand What You ShippedThis one's gonna sting a little for some of you, but somebody's gotta say it. If you're vibe coding with Claude Code or Codex and you're building something you actually care about, a real product, a real business, something with real users and real money attached, then you cannot keep shipping code you don't understand...
ToolsWhen Will Qwen and Local LLMs Be Good Enough to Compete With Frontier Models?If the escape hatch is running open models like Qwen on your own machine, the obvious follow-up is: are those local models actually good enough yet?
GeneralHow Long Before Claude Code and Codex Become Unaffordable?Here's a question that I've been thinking about, and probably you too if you've built your whole workflow around these tools. Right now Claude Code and Codex are cheap, but...
General75% of New Apps Can't Hit 1,000 DownloadsMore than 75% of new apps launched in the past year failed to reach even 1,000 downloads, while app launches jumped 50% thanks to AI coding tools. That's not a coincidence. Here's what the data actually shows and what it means if you're about to build something...
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GeneralWhy Is My Facebook Feed Full of AI Slop?Shrimp Jesus, impossible birthday cakes, rage-bait charts. Your Facebook feed is full of AI slop now.
GeneralWhy Does Twitter and Reddit Feel Like I'm Talking to AI Bots Now?That "are these even real people" feeling on X and Reddit isn't paranoia.
LessonsJust Because You Can Vibe Code It Doesn't Mean You Should Ship ItThe vibe coding tools made building so easy, and shipping without looking is where people are walking off a cliff. Here's the gap between "it runs" and "it's done," and how to close it.
NewsFable 5's Safety Filters Are Blocking People for Asking About SunglassesFable 5 has been out for about a day and the honeymoon is already getting awkward. The model itself is a monster but the safety filters that Anthropic bolted onto it are so twitchy that people are getting blocked for asking completely normal stuff, and the complaints are piling up fast. I went and read through what people are actually running into, and people think it's a problem...
NewsAnthropic Just Released a Tamed Version of Its "Too Dangerous" Model: Fable 5Anthropic dropped Fable 5 today. This is the first time they've taken one of their Mythos-class models, the tier that sits above Opus, the stuff they've been keeping locked in the basement because it was too spicy to hand out, and actually made a version of it that “normies” can use...
LessonsPeople Are Using LLM Bots to Write Their Own Posts on Reddit. What Happens When AI Trains on AI?People are getting too lazy to write their own posts, so more of the internet is AI-generated every year. The next generation of AI trains on that content. So what happens when AI starts learning from itself? It has a name, and real research behind it.
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LessonsWhat Happens to Your SaaS When Customers Can Just Build It Themselves With Claude Code?Okay somebody needs to say this out loud because everybody building their little SaaS with Claude Code right now is having a great time and not thinking about the obvious problem sitting right in front of them… The same tool you used to build your SaaS in a weekend? Your customers have access to it too...