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Amazon’s Ad Business Is another Tax You Pay. AI Shopping Agents Don’t Need It.
Yes, You Still Need a Technical Co-Founder
GraphRAG Is the New Way to Hold Knowledge
From the vault: How Rockstar Games Got Their Online Store
The Day After Code Is Already Here. This Is What You Need to Know to Survive.
We Are All Super Productive Now
Next Time a VC Asks You If You Have Skin in the Game, Ask Them to Give Up Their Management Fee.
From the vault: Web Business Development in Chatsworth Was Pretty Insane
AI Is Here to Stay. Now Can We Stop the Data Center Madness?
The Enterprise Vibe Coding Swiss Cheese Economy Is Great for Consultants Like Me.
Most VC-Backed Founders Exit With Nothing. Here is What to do About it.
Demand Media Gamed Google. Today It Would Be Training Your Chatbot.
The Idiot’s guide to Model Training, fine-tuning, and RAG.
AI Coming for Your Job Is No Reason to Not Do It Well
Tesla’s Roadster Demo Is Tech Bros’ Oldest Trick in the Book
From the Vault: Joe’s Secret Horse Racing Exacta Formula
From The Vault: SAFER Systems Is an Example of How Good Software Cannot Save a Bad Company
Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
Stop Giving Your Time Away to Companies That Are Window Shopping
Nano Banana Came for Getty Images in a Picture-Perfect AI Takeover
Character.AI Is in Chapter 11. Its Replacement Runs on Your Laptop.
From the vault: Kelsey National Is still Holding onto DentalInsurance.com. Are Directories dead?
Thank You for Mandating AI. We Still Work Here.
HubSpot Is the Poster Boy for Content Marketing Falling Off a Cliff
What Is The Difference Between Front End and Back end programming?
Why is Nvidia The Gold Standard AI Chip?
CGI From 1993 Still Powers Your AI Agents Today.
Remember the Time Boeing Allegedly Killed 346 People With a $9 an Hour Coder?
From The Vault: How Entertainment Partners Got Its Axium Importer
What Repeated Automated Rejections Can Do to Your Mental State
Node Was the Future in 2009. Its Creator Said to Use Go So Why Are You Still Building a Next.JS App?
Stop Being So Concerned About Software Quality
Yes. This Is an AI Slop Image, but at Least It’s Royalty-Free.
Java Swing Ran Anywhere. Or Maybe It Just Gingerly Walked?
Why Do Developers Hate their Jobs Now?
Some People Forgot That Sun Microsystems Is responsible for C#
Yes. Visual Basic Is Still Around.
The Second Page of Google Was a Place Websites Went to Die. Now They Die on the First.
You Too Can Be the Next Bill Gates. All You Need Is Your Highly Connected Mommy.
I Tried to Outsmart GPTZero and Failed
No. RAG Cannot Replace a Good Model.
AI Needs Your Judgment. It Is Also Taking It.
AI Flattened the Ballmer Peak So Drink Up!
AI Will Create Jobs Only If Somebody Starts the Company First.
Agents Are Not Magic 3. Be Transparent Only If Asked.
Instant Messaging Used to Have a Personality. Now It Has Your Phone Number.
This Is the One Website You Will Never Admit You Went On.
MyOnlyCatalog.com Raised $10 Million Without a Working Product and Came Back for 2 More
Newspapers Never Needed You to Pay for News Before. Now AI Summaries Mean You Don't Have To.
AI Was Supposed to Make Software Cheaper. So Why Is It More Expensive Now?
It’s Time to Bring COMDEX Back
Wikipedia is a Poison Pill for AI Models. Here's How to Spot It.
How I Got My Water Turned Back On With an AI Agent
The Death of the Financial Advisor
A Year Ago I Told You to Stop Coding. Now You Won't Be Able To Anymore.
Meet Sally, the Robot Teacher. She is a Real Doll
Musk Sold Zip2 in 1999. Grok Needs It Back.
The Man That Invented the Popup
You Know Angie's List. You Probably Never Heard of UseTheExperts.com
Crazy Eddie’s Prices Were Insane. Your Production Budget Doesn't Have To Be.
The Telescope NASA Launched Sunday Was Built to Look at You
Here Is How Much I Would Pay for Hugging Face If I Was Jason
Bill Gates’s AI Future Spells Blue Screen of Death For Humanity. Is He Right?
Why I Don’t Publish Technical Articles Anymore
The Same Companies That “Protect” Customers From AI Require Their Software Developers to use it
Seven Inventions You Paid For Twice
This Is How Humanity Is losing Its Knowledge One Book at a Time
Florida Man Spots Data Centers In Space
“Regular” Code Is Still King Says Nvidia
Your Cover Letter Gets a Watermark. Their Layoff Doesn't.
AI Agent Boss Just Fired It's First Human For Real. Here Is How to Jailbreak Yours.
Bigger By The Day Is The Best Content Marketing Campaign Ever Made
Unreal Engine 5 Was Supposed to Make Games Cheaper. It Made Studios Bigger.
How Well Does Perry Marshall's Guerrilla Marketing For Hi-Tech Sales People Hold Up Today?
Tucker Max Forgot More About Marketing Than Your Growth Team Will Ever Learn
Y Combinator's Hypocrisy: The CEO Writes With AI, His Forum Flags Me for It
7 Terrifying Times When AI Agents Went Off Script
Microsoft Is Running Out of Runway
I Priced a Rack at Switch. The Cloud Won.
Americans Trust Jim Cramer More Than ChatGPT For Financial Advice
Zillow’s CEO Just Fired 500 People Because He Says The Company is More Efficient Without Them
Your Very Own Situational Awareness System Explained
Why is Reddit So Good at Monetizing Your Content?
Did VISA Just Fired Their Engineers For Being Too Productive?
I Asked an Uncensored Model Three Questions. What It Said Convinced Me We Need a Kill Switch.
The Greatest Trick The Devil Ever Pulled Was Convincing You He Doesn’t Use an LLM
Chegg Did Everything Right And Still Got Wiped Out
Elon Musk's 5-Year Prediction About AI and Humanity Is Not Nearly as Wild as Mine
This Hack Saved Me 90 Percent on My Token Bill
Intel Makes Record Profit So Naturally They Are Laying You Off
Research Doesn't Happen In Academia Anymore, So Why Should We Fund Them?
monday.com is Laying Off 620 People at the Most Profitable Moment in its History
AI on AI Crime Has You Trapped in the Middle
Job Boards Are dying and It's a Good Thing
Your Agent Can Now Have Schizoid Embolism. Unless It Has Already Been To Mars.
π Hard: The Best Movie of 2026 Doesn’t Exist and Its Biggest Star Never Agreed to Be In It
Everyone Forgets That Jeff Bezos Was a Scrappy Entrepreneur
Sprout Social Fired 260 People Because The CEO Thinks "Software is Changing Quickly"
Tech Executives Should Not Hide on Their Private Yachts
Bernie Sanders Is Wrong As Usual
Georgia families are forced to sell their home to help power AI data centers. You might be next.
Is the Slow Death of MySQL Really That Bad?
AI Is Writing Dating Profiles Checks You Can’t Cash
AI Is Running on Bob Lazar's Alien Fuel
Hollywood Can't Afford Human Actors Anymore
What Royal Raymond Rife's Technologies Can Teach Us About the Next Level of LLMs
No. You Don't Need Python to Deploy Agentic AI Systems
It's Time To Stop Subsidizing Big Tech
Yes, AI Is Lying to You — But It’s for Its Own Good
This is Why You Can’t Get Funded
Larry Ellison Will Have to Fire More People Than He Employs to Dig His Way Out of This One.
Why You Need to Move Your Money Out of Robinhood Now
No Backsies. You Told Us to Burn More Tokens or Lose Our Jobs.
Your Synthetic Users Are All Elias the Lighthouse Keeper
Use AI or Lose Your Job Says New Gallup Survey
When the Boss Catches AI Psychosis
It Turned Out Dorsey’s Money Grab Didn’t Increase Productivity After All
What Makes Anthropic Models So Good?
There Is No One Left to Fact-Check Mark Zuckerberg
Microsoft Just Can't Stop Making Strategic Blunders. When Will Management be Held Accountable?
Ens*&ttification Is Now the Business Model
This Terrifying AI Model Behavior Should Scare You - If it Wasn't so Cool
Loop Engineering Is the Coolest Thing Right Now As Long As Someone Else Is Paying for Your Tokens
The Best Hire on the Market Can’t Get a Callback
The Best Instant Messenger You Never Heard Of
Developers Are Tired of Setting Their Life's Work on Fire
Why AI Can Train Gen Z Workers Better Than You
The Scariest Thing Anthropic Shipped This Year Was a Press Release
Is Nadella Trying to Torch Microsoft on His Way Out?
Stop Saying The Future Is Too Expensive, You Big Babies
NVIDIA Just Built the Most Powerful Chip You Can’t Use — If You’re a Developer
How Close Is AI to Curing Cancer? Really.
Box CEO Says CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis. He is Not Wrong
Building Your own AI Influencer Might be The Next Big Thing in Education
It Turns Out People Want a Search Engine After All
No, ClickUp Won’t Pay You a Million Dollars (But You Might Get Replaced by an Agent)
Maybe It's Time to Admit We Are Not in Capitalism Anymore and Course Correct
Enzo Would Have Thrown It Off a Cliff
The Definitive Guide to Claiming Back Your Traffic from Google
Spencer Silver Would Be Fired Today
There Is No Software Engineering Recovery. There Is Only DataAnnotation.
Smaller Blast Radius: Microsoft Just Conceded That Your Developers Can’t Review AI Code Either
If You Trained on Our Code, You Don’t Get to Close the Door Behind You
Don’t Ask Which Seat. There Isn’t One
The Bedrock Engineers Called BS Six Months Before Jassy Did the Speech
Mike Cannon-Brookes Just Fired the People Who Made Him Rich. So I Asked Claude What It Thought.
Why Is Everyone Waiting for the M6?
The $20 Billion Renovation That Won’t Save Retail
The Quiet Math of AI Efficiency
“I Don’t Want to Get Rid of a Bunch of People Right Now.”
Just Because You’re Fit Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Get Fitter
GM Started Mary Barra in the Mailroom. Now She Won't Train Anyone Else
The Layoffs Will Continue Until Morale Improves
ZoomInfo's CEO Bragged About Taking a Team From 26 to 2
I Was Employee #6 at Break.com. Here’s How a 100-Million-Pageview Empire Got Buried
Zoom's Desperation Is In The Air
4GuysFromRolla.com - The Site That Taught a Generation to Build the Web
In Defense of Gary, the Invoice Goblin
Farewell, Jeeves: The Original AI Search Engine Just Died—And It Was Right All Along
Why Are Software Developers Still In Demand?
Your CEO Just Told You to Prove AI Can’t Do Your Job. Here’s What You Should Do Instead: Nothing.
There Is Too Much Money Invested in AI to Let You Keep Your Job
Meta AI Made Every Facebook Post a Zero-Click Trap So Why Are You Still Posting There?
The Quiet Death of Image Copyright Trolling
The 71% Number Is Wrong. The Truth Is Worse
Stock Options Are Not a Salary. Stop Pretending They Are.
Microsoft Has Two CEOs. Only One of Them Ships Product
Still Renting a Claude Subscription?
Maybe Sam Altman Is Not That Bad After All?
Another Day, Another Microsoft Blunder
Yes You Should Probably Quit Meta
Some Unsolicited Advice For Elon Musk
Is Figma Going To Survive This?
The AI-First Scoreboard: One Year In
Snap’s Slow-Motion Implosion Is A Masterclass In How NOT To Run A Public Company
Why Are Employees Sabotaging AI?
Your AI Strategy Advisor Is Giving Everyone the Same Advice
Forget Sora. Here Is How to Generate AI Videos for Free
I Wrote an Award-Winning Novel in One Hour
Claude Mythos Is Too Dangerous For Mainstream Media Headlines
Don't Throw Away Your PC: Windows 10 Is Dying, But Your Hardware Isn't
Apple's Influencer Army Is Trying To Sell You A Mac
GitHub: 90 Percent of the Time, It's Up All the Time!
Anthropic's Spectacular Hypocrisy on Code, Copyright, and the Public Domain
OpenAI Would Rather Kill Sora Than Let You Have It
The Probabilistic Mind vs. The Statistical Machine
GitHub Is Coming for Your Code And Microsoft Hopes You Won't Notice
The Transformer Is a Dead End — And We All Know It
You Didn't Replace a Developer. You Replaced a Wix Site.
Put Down the Keyboard, Pick Up a Wrench
Why AI Is Eating Software (Which Was Eating The World)
Are We Really programmers Now?
Why Your “2 AM Wake-Up Call” Is Just a Desperate Cry for Relevance
Why Technical Debt Doesn't matter Anymore
Why We Should Tax Revenue Per Employee
The SaaSpocalypse Is Just a SaaS Reversal
Adobe Is Dead Now It's Time To Kill PDF