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Mountains of Misunderstanding: The AI Confidence Trap
The Mountains of Misunderstanding map the gap between what we think we know and what we actually know — a gap that AI widens by packaging fluency as expertise. A year after writing this article, spec-driven development became my structural answer to staying off the mesa.
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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