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I Spent Three Years Chasing AI Models. Cursor Taught Me I Was Wrong

Let me tell you about last Wednesday night. I sat there staring at Cursor's three technical blog posts for four straight hours. Not skimming—actually reading, l

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I Pay for 5 AI Subscriptions Every Month—Here’s Why That’s Actually Not Stupid

Last Wednesday, a mate pinged me on WhatsApp with a question that stopped me mid-scroll. “Which AI do you actually use the most these days?” I stared at my phon

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Vibe Coding Almost Ruined My Team—Here's How We Survived the AI Gold Rush

I got absolutely schooled by a 48-year-old paper last month. Humiliatingly so. In 1978, Edsger Dijkstra—you know, the algorithm guy—wrote something with the agg

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I Pay for 5 AI Models Every Month, and Honestly? They're All One-Trick Ponies

I just checked my bank statement and realised—again—that I'd renewed my Grok subscription. Ten dollars. Gone. Poof. Look, I know writing this kind of piece is a

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The Night I Stayed Up Till 2:30 AM Reverse-Engineering OpenAI's o1 (And What It Actually Means for U

It was half two in the morning when I dug up Zhang Junlin's article on reverse-engineering o1. o3-mini had just dropped, and I'm staring at my screen when it hi

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I Almost Quit AI-Assisted Coding — Then DeepSeek Changed Everything

Last November, I took on a project that nearly broke me. Building a CI/CD pipeline for a startup that wanted to go all-in on AI-native development. Claude Code

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Why Your CLAUDE.md Is Making Claude Worse (And How to Fix It)

Last Wednesday at 11pm, my phone buzzed. A friend sent me a screenshot of Claude Code's error log with one sentence: "I'm going to smash my keyboard." He'd aske

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The Real o1 Breakthrough: RLHF Is Dead, Long Live Self-Play RL

o1 isn't about model architecture. It's about a training paradigm shift so fundamental that I think we'll look back on 2024 as the year everything changed for L

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I Tracked How ByteDance Saved $1.4 Billion on Infrastructure—Here's What Actually Worked

Have you ever gotten paged at 3 AM? I have. December 2022, 3:12 AM. My phone lit up and my heart just... stopped. Production incident. Error logs flooding in. I

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I've Tested Five "Unified" Multimodal Models — BAGEL Is the First One That Actually Works

I've got PTSD from "unified" multimodal models. Proper trauma. You know the drill. Someone publishes a paper with "Unified Architecture" in the title, and you c

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Your Agent's "Memory" Is Just a Fancy Database Query — and I Can Prove It

Last Tuesday, I did something that made me wildly unpopular in a tech Slack community. I said: "90% of Agent 'memory' systems are just glorified database lookup

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I Spent 3 Months Learning Context Engineering the Hard Way — Here's What Actually Works

Last fall, I built a customer service agent that nearly broke me. Seriously. I'm not being dramatic. GPT-4o, 27 prompt revisions (yes, I counted), 12 few-shot e

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