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Applied AI, machine learning, data analysis, and the practical limits of intelligent systems.
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Ithaka Gave You the Journey: AI-Assisted Development
A follow-up to 'Dependencies I Never Outgrew,' tracing three years of AI-assisted development from a language-blind PHP experiment through the imagination floodgates of agent mode to the specification discipline behind DevSpark.
Thinking About Stack Overflow Made Me Ponder the Real Lessons of Disruption
Thinking about Stack Overflow made me ponder the deeper lessons of how organizations respond to market disruption. Stack Overflow did pivot—it just didn't pivot in a way that preserved the developer Q&A community that defined its cultural relevance.
Building MuseumSpark - Why Context Matters More Than the Latest LLM
A deep dive into building MuseumSpark, showing how a modular, context-first architecture with smart caching reduced LLM costs by 67% while improving accuracy from 29% to 95%. Learn why gathering evidence before asking LLMs to judge beats trying to use them as researchers.
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Measuring AI's Contribution to Code
Mountains of Misunderstanding: The AI Confidence Trap
AI Observability Is No Joke
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