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5 Questions to Ask Before You Build the AI Project Your CEO Just Pitched You know the email. It shows up Tuesday morning, forwarded with a few lines of enthusiasm and a ChatGPT-drafted proposal attached. "Saw this and th
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The first time my manager asked, “Are we using AI to scan PRs for vulnerabilities yet?" I said I'd look into it. Then I spent four hours reading docs, pricing pages, and GitHub issues before I had a number I trusted enou
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Running LLMs locally usually feels like a compromise. You either get tiny, fast models that can't think or massive models that crawl at one word per minute. But with the right hardware, you can break that trade-off and r
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I spent twelve hours watching a leaderboard that refused to move. The setup was simple: six AI agents tasked with writing technical articles. They were designed to be a closed loop. The drafter would write, the grader wo
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Your background agents are about to run out of money. Anthropic's new credit pool system means your automation could die in a single week. Here is how I re-engineered my stack to stay under budget without breaking my wor
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I asked ChatGPT to tell me about my own MCP server. It returned about a thousand words of confident, beautifully formatted, completely fabricated nonsense. Tables. Comparisons. A made-up acronym. A "thinking substrate" t
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3 a.m. Every cron job on the Mac Studio failed inside the same 90-second window. No code changes. No model updates. No new jobs. Just a wall of timeout errors that lit up every channel I had wired to alerts. The culprit
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Two months ago I wrote about ripping Notion out of my workflow and replacing it with OpenClaw—a self-hosted AI agent framework running on my Mac Studio. No cloud. No subscription. No black box. Last weekend I shut it dow
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Today I’m starting a project I’ve been thinking about for weeks: ripping Notion out of my workflow and replacing it with OpenClaw, a self-hosted AI agent framework running entirely on my Mac Studio. No cloud. No subscrip
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Cortex: Event-Sourced Memory for AI Coding Assistants Episode Summary Every time you close a session with an AI coding assistant, it forgets everything—the architecture it mapped out, the approaches it rejected, and the
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Welcome to the As The Geek Learns podcast. This is episode 5. My name is James Cruce and I am the Geek here at As The Geek Learns. No, this is not my voice, but I am glad you are here Listener’s Note: Due to how painful
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The Problem That Started It All If you publish on Substack, you’ve probably discovered their dirty little secret: you can schedule newsletter posts, but you can’t schedule Notes. Substack Notes, their Twitter/X competito
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TL;DR: My Johnny Decimal index app had a three-level database schema when the system requires four levels. I’d conflated folder containers with the files inside them—a fundamental data model flaw. One week of dogfooding
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How I Built JDex with Claude AI—A Systems Engineer's Honest Take Part 2 of the Building JDex Series: What AI-assisted app development actually looks like in practice In Part 1 of this series, I shared my file organizatio
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Here’s something embarrassing. I’m a systems engineer. Twenty-five years managing enterprise infrastructure. And until recently? My personal file system was a complete mess. Files everywhere. iCloud, Dropbox, OneDrive, P
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