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The Weekend I Finally Installed Claude Code — And Everything Changed

The Weekend I Finally Installed Claude Code — And Everything Changed

I'd been watching Claude Code from a distance for three months. It launched in February as a "research preview" — a terminal-only tool that let an AI read your…

Gemini 2.0 Experimental Advanced: Google's Context Window Changes the Equation

Gemini 2.0 Experimental Advanced: Google's Context Window Changes the Equation

I've been spending time with Gemini 2.0 Experimental Advanced this week, and I need to talk about it. Look — I've written before about the various models and…

Why Every AI Group Needs Rules Before It Needs Members

Why Every AI Group Needs Rules Before It Needs Members

I've been thinking a lot about how we share information in the AI space — and more specifically, how we do it BADLY. If you're anything like me, you're in a…

GPT-4o and the Race to Run AI Locally on Your Phone

GPT-4o and the Race to Run AI Locally on Your Phone

OpenAI just dropped GPT-4o, and there's a lot to unpack here. But honestly, the thing I'm most excited about isn't the model itself — it's what it signals…

The $4.4 Trillion Question: Why Sitting on Your Hands With AI Could Be Fatal

The $4.4 Trillion Question: Why Sitting on Your Hands With AI Could Be Fatal

McKinsey dropped a report recently that I think deserves more attention than it's getting. The numbers are staggering, and I don't use that word lightly.…

Why the Future of AI Isn't One Model — It's All of Them Working Together

Why the Future of AI Isn't One Model — It's All of Them Working Together

I've been spending a lot of time with Gemini lately, and I have to say — I'm pretty impressed. Google's finally shipping something that feels like it belongs…

Groq and the Case for LLMs as Logic Engines, Not Knowledge Bases

Groq and the Case for LLMs as Logic Engines, Not Knowledge Bases

I just spent some time with Groq.com and — wow. Maybe I'm late to the game here, but this is pretty incredible. We're talking LLM response times in…

Launching Ragu: Why We Built a Simple RAG Platform for Everyone

Launching Ragu: Why We Built a Simple RAG Platform for Everyone

I've been quiet for a while. Those who've been following my writing know I usually can't shut up about what's happening in AI — the models, the tooling, the…

From Screenshot to Code: Why HuggingFace's New Tool Changes Everything

From Screenshot to Code: Why HuggingFace's New Tool Changes Everything

I've been watching the AI-to-code space pretty closely, and this week something dropped that I think deserves more attention than it's getting. HuggingFace…

Gemini Pro Is Good — But GPT-4 Still Thinks Different

Gemini Pro Is Good — But GPT-4 Still Thinks Different

I've been away for a couple of weeks, and the AI landscape shifted again while I wasn't looking. Pretty typical at this point. I spent a solid two hours this…

OpenAI DevDay Just Supercharged My AI Assistant

OpenAI DevDay Just Supercharged My AI Assistant

I've been building AI tools for months now. Quietly, expensively, and with a level of infrastructure paranoia that would make a cybersecurity consultant proud.…

The Second Wave: Why Smart AI Entrepreneurs Are Building Boring Businesses

The Second Wave: Why Smart AI Entrepreneurs Are Building Boring Businesses

I've been watching the AI startup landscape pretty closely for the past year and a half, and I think we're entering a fundamentally different phase for…