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From the vault: I Was a Mover for a Year Before I Got My First Software Job in America. It Paid $20 a Day...
I was driving around in a $500 Nissan with no starter, working as a mover in the City of Angels until I got my first break, so stop complaining.
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The Idiot’s guide to Model Training, fine-tuning, and RAG.
Training builds the brain, Fine tuning, the dress code. Neither one was ever how an AI learns your business.
Oct 27
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AI Coming for Your Job Is No Reason to Not Do It Well
Your CEO may have broken the deal first. Taking the sink on your way out still costs you more than it costs them.
Oct 26
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Tesla’s Roadster Demo Is Tech Bros’ Oldest Trick in the Book
Tech demos are built for the people watching them. AI agents are demo technology, and companies are already riding in them. Except Elon. He watched it…
Oct 25
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From the Vault: Joe’s Secret Horse Racing Exacta Formula
Every scraper works until it doesn’t (Unless it belongs to Perplexity).
Oct 24
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From The Vault: SAFER Systems Is an Example of How Good Software Cannot Save a Bad Company
SAFER Systems was a company that saved lives. Unfortunately bad management lead to its untimely demise.
Oct 23
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Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
I asked a model where it sees itself in 5 years. It gave me a great answer and spent the rest of the conversation proving itself wrong.
Oct 22
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Stop Giving Your Time Away to Companies That Are Window Shopping
How companies that have no interest in hiring you are wasting your time and what to do about it.
Oct 21
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Nano Banana Came for Getty Images in a Picture-Perfect AI Takeover
Getty spent years billing bloggers for pictures. Google now makes the picture for about three cents.
Oct 20
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Character.AI Is in Chapter 11. Its Replacement Runs on Your Laptop.
Regulators searched under the light and found an app with a US mailing address they can squeeze. The open models are still a free download so you can…
Oct 19
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From the vault: Kelsey National Is still Holding onto DentalInsurance.com. Are Directories dead?
A free domain from 1995, an $8.1 million sale, a 2004 argument about a homepage, and what DentalInsurance.com should do about AI search.
Oct 18
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Thank You for Mandating AI. We Still Work Here.
Two Harvard researchers tracked 718 companies through March 2026. The agents wrote 30 percent more code. The companies shipped about the same amount…
Oct 17
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