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Your AI Ghostwriter is a Bad Idea. Here's How to Use an AI 'Thought Partner' Instead
I rebuilt my AI tool after watching it confidently spout wrong information about my own expertise—here's the 4-step workflow that puts you in control instead.
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493 posts about AI, learning, and building products
•AI
One AI Parameter Change Cost Me $54/Month
I thought my Cloud Run migration was flawless until a single AI parameter—temperature set to 0.7 instead of 0—caused 30% failed API calls and cost me $54/month in wasted tokens.
•AI
From Advertising to Engineering: Technical Lessons from Building DIALØGUE
I migrated from AWS to GCP and achieved 92% cost reduction with 10x faster performance—here's what I learned ditching "best practices" for pragmatic architecture that actually works.
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DIALØGUE: Building an AI-Powered Podcast Generator from Scratch (And Learning a Ton Along the Way)
I built an AI podcast generator that lets you shape the content before it's created—because I was tired of AI just reading Wikipedia at me during my commute.
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Google Gemini 2.5 Pro is now my go-to coding partner
After 5,000 hours testing AI models, Gemini 2.5 Pro beats Claude and ChatGPT for coding—here's why it became my default tool for building complex applications.
•Driving in the US
Four Utah National Parks in Winter: A Red Rock Journey
Winter transforms Utah's red rocks into something magical—we discovered snow-dusted arches, empty scenic roads, and a sense of community that rivals the landscape itself.
•AI
CrewAI is Good! - My First Impressions
After 10 days building AI-generated podcasts with CrewAI, I learned that while the framework is remarkably easy to use, quality content still demands real human effort.
•AI
I Cheated: Sydney Can Now Read the Narrative in 10-K Reports
I scaled Sydney to read 10 years of narrative content from Big Tech's annual reports by strategically limiting scope to 7 companies—here's how I balanced cost vs capability.
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Less Is More
I combined two AI agents into one multi-talented assistant that can analyze S&P 500 financials AND my 15 years of blog content—proving less really is more.
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S&P500 Agent MVP Launched: Answering Financial Questions Grounded with SEC Data
I built an AI agent that answers financial questions using 10 years of SEC data—and finally solved my streaming challenges to make it real-time and verifiable.
•Geopolitics
The Changing World Order: Ray Dalio’s 2024 Great Powers Index and What Lies Ahead
Ray Dalio's 2024 Great Powers Index reveals the US holding steady at #1, but internal conflicts hit century highs while China closes the gap—here's what it means for your money.
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Three months later: Still coding, still learning, still stuck (sometimes)
After 10 months of coding with AI assistants, I've learned they're like interns—powerful but needing specific instructions, which means I must deeply understand frameworks to solve real problems like making my slow chatbot fast.