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What's Coming Next for AI on Mac — and How to Be Ready
Where on-device AI on Apple Silicon is heading: shrinking open models, rising memory bandwidth, Apple's Foundation Models framework, agentic AI, and local multimodality. Practical advice on hardware, skills, and the local AI stack to be ready.
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Agentic coding: Planning outputs as the real product of the first turn
A field-tested take on planning outputs as the real product of the first turn with Agentic coding: what it rewards, where it breaks, and how to keep the workflow honest.
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Monthly Retrospective: What Technology Taught Us in June 2026
June 2026 brought AI maturation, disappearing technologies, productivity wisdom, and the eternal debate between open and closed systems. Here's what we learned.
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The Attention Economy Was Just the Prototype. AI Is the Real Thing.
Social media's dopamine loops were the first generation of algorithmic influence. Conversational AI represents a qualitative leap in the capacity to shape human behavior.
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The 7 AI Mistakes Mac Power Users Keep Making
Seven common local LLM mistakes on Mac and how to fix them. Covers Ollama context length, quantization tradeoffs, VRAM limits on Apple Silicon, swap death spirals, Modelfiles, and hybrid cloud-local routing with exact commands.
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MCP servers: Testing MCP servers with a plain JSON-RPC client first
A field-tested take on testing MCP servers with a plain JSON-RPC client first with MCP servers: what it rewards, where it breaks, and how to keep the workflow honest.
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What the Ideal Home Office Looks Like According to Science
Science reveals what makes home offices effective: lighting, temperature, acoustics, ergonomics, and psychology. Build a workspace that works as hard as you do.
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Why Democracy and AI Are on a Structural Collision Course
AI's speed creates a structural threat to democratic governance that deepfakes and disinformation barely capture — decisions are being made faster than democracy can evaluate them.
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Mac Studio as a Family Photo AI — Find Any Memory in Seconds
How to build local AI photo search on a Mac Studio. Apple Photos semantic search tips, CLIP-based natural-language indexing of 100k+ photo libraries, deduplication of decades of camera rolls, and a weekend project plan.
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AI coding workflows: Pair-with-AI rituals that survive a team of ten
A field-tested take on pair-with-AI rituals that survive a team of ten with AI coding workflows: what it rewards, where it breaks, and how to keep the workflow honest.
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Technologies That Will Disappear Within Five Years
Some everyday technologies are living on borrowed time. From charging cables to passwords to physical SIM cards, here's what's disappearing by 2031—and.
