Everyone Is Marketing With AI, and Nobody Is Listening
Everyone uses AI to market their stuff now. It writes the cold emails, the LinkedIn posts and the ads. It even writes the comments…
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Most “Investing” Is Just Speculation
The words people choose often reveal more about how they want to be perceived than what they're actually doing. Take the term "investing" -…
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Your app just went viral. Congratulations! Yes, you might be dealing with what @andrewchen calls "shitty users" who won't stick around. But instead of…
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According to PagerDuty's 2025 State of Digital Operations Report reveals an interesting divide in how different levels of IT organizations view AI agents. While…
Read postCan AI-Generated Text be Reliably Detected?
AI detection tools don't work. And they're not going to work. Not because we haven't found the right algorithm yet, but because the entire…
Read postBuilding an AI-Friendly Codebase
This post explores practical strategies for making your codebase more AI-friendly. The goal isn't to constrain your architecture to AI limitations, but to find…
Read postPick Your Fights: A Pragmatic Approach to Coding with AI
Parents learn to "pick their fights," understanding that not every small disagreement warrants a battle. This wisdom translates remarkably well to the realm of…
Read postAI in 2025: Two Major Shifts
The ability to train competitive AI models at 1/45th the traditional cost is fundamentally changing who can develop AI systems and what they can…
Read postShould I Implement Soft Deletes In My Laravel Spark-Based Billing System?
I recently investigated whether I should (or needed to) add soft deletes to my Laravel Spark-based billing system. Laravel Spark for Paddle is a…
Read postDeepSeek and the Effects of GPU Export Controls
Last week, DeepSeek unveiled their V3 model, trained on just 2,048 H800 GPUs - a fraction of the hardware used by OpenAI or Meta.…
Read postAnalyzing a Year of Hacker News Traffic
After several of my blog posts made it to the Hacker News front page over the past year, I decided to dive deep into…
Read postTrae AI IDE: ByteDance’s Answer to Cursor
ByteDance recently launched Trae, a new AI-powered IDE that's generating buzz in the developer community. As someone who has extensively analyzed various AI coding…
Read postStartup Winter: Hacker News Lost its Faith
In 2013, a failing founder posted their story on Hacker News (link). The responses were overwhelmingly supportive: "Failure is just an event, not who…
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