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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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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.
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)
No. 05AIGoogle Gemini 2.5 Pro is now my go-to coding partner
No. 06Driving in the USFour Utah National Parks in Winter: A Red Rock Journey
No. 07AICrewAI is Good! - My First Impressions
No. 08AII Cheated: Sydney Can Now Read the Narrative in 10-K Reports
No. 09AILess Is More
No. 10AIS&P500 Agent MVP Launched: Answering Financial Questions Grounded with SEC Data
No. 11GeopoliticsThe Changing World Order: Ray Dalio’s 2024 Great Powers Index and What Lies Ahead
No. 12AIThree months later: Still coding, still learning, still stuck (sometimes)
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