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What the Newspaper Industry's Death Teaches the Web About Surviving AI
Newspapers misunderstood what they were selling. Web publishers are making the identical mistake with AI — here's the asset that actually survives disruption.
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Make Siri Actually Smart — The Local LLM Bridge Trick
How to bridge Siri to a local LLM using Apple Shortcuts, Ollama's API, and Tailscale. Voice-query your Mac's AI from your iPhone anywhere, with the exact JSON config and realistic latency numbers.
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GitHub Copilot: Copilot Spaces as shared context libraries for team onboarding
A field-tested take on Copilot Spaces as shared context libraries for team onboarding with GitHub Copilot: what it rewards, where it breaks, and how to keep the workflow honest.
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Why Most AI Features Today Don't Actually Solve Anything
Explore why most AI features in consumer products fail to deliver real value. Learn to identify genuine AI utility versus marketing theater and what.
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Why 'Alignment' Is the Wrong Word for What We're Actually Worried About
AI alignment sounds like engineering. It isn't — it's political. The word hides this, and the safety field has been paying for that mistake ever since.
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I Tracked Every AI Query for a Month — The Results Changed My Setup
I logged every AI query for 30 days using Open WebUI logs and the llm CLI. The data showed 80% of queries run fine on a local model — here's the routing setup and cost savings that followed.
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Local LLMs with Ollama: Thermal budget of a MacBook pretending to be a server
A field-tested take on the thermal budget of a MacBook pretending to be a server with Local LLMs with Ollama: what it rewards, where it breaks, and how to keep the workflow honest.
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Invisible Details That Separate Premium Products From Average
Discover the hidden details that make premium products feel special. From material choices to interaction design, learn what separates exceptional.
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France Had the Best AI Research in the World in 1990. Then This Happened.
France had world-class AI research in the 1980s. How it lost that edge — and whether Mistral can reverse it — is a lesson every country should study.
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The Spreadsheet Killer — Local AI Data Analysis on Your Mac
Natural-language data analysis with local LLMs on Apple Silicon. Why LLMs should write pandas code instead of doing math, a local code-interpreter setup with Ollama and Jupyter, and prompt patterns for analyzing bank CSV exports privately.
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Agentic coding: Guardrails before autonomy, always
A field-tested take on guardrails before autonomy, always with Agentic coding: what it rewards, where it breaks, and how to keep the workflow honest.
