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Developing BossFight - A Tool For Midterm Election Voters
Watch an AI agent and a solo developer build a midterm voter tool from scratch, dead ends and all
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What I've Learned After 21 Months of AI Coding (Part 1 of 2)
From "I'm apprehensive" to "am I still a programmer?" Come take the trip with me.
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The Ripoff World of the "Anti-AI" Movement
There is no pro-AI side and anti-AI side. There are real concerns, and there are falsehoods being sold to the people who have them.
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The Adults in the Room Have an IPO
The media gave you the five-minute version of the Hugging Face hack, then found an ex-engineer to wrongly simplify it. Here's the whole story, and why…
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The AI Came for the Department. The Boss Left Instead.
The AI replaced the reason they were busy, and someone had put it there on purpose.
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Skynet Needs Admin Rights
The real danger of AI is much dumber than Terminator and much more believable.
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Sorry Vibe Coders. You Still Need to Learn to Code After All.
Not because vibe coding is shameful. Because the thing that graduates you out of it is easier than you think.
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Don't Vibe Your Shit When It's This Big
Here's a chat I'm currently having with Claude Sonnet. Not Fable, not Opus. Sonnet, the "general" one.
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How Bad Do You Really Want This?
Four years, three kids, and everything nobody tells you before you sign up for travel baseball and softball.
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A veteran developer's honest take on building software with AI, the tech industry's BS, and the things that actually matter - from the field and the keyboard.
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