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Thoughts on freelancing, AI integration, and building things that work.

A co-worker sent me a video link last week — just a “check it out.” I watched it twice and took notes, which is not something I do for most content. The video is “AI Mistakes You’re Probably Making” by...

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If you’re like me, you get an idea while you’re working on something else. You start drafting out a spec. You kick off an AI agent and nudge it along over the next few days. And then you’ve got a...

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For years, I measured developers, myself, and my peers by how much we produced. Features shipped. Bugs fixed. Pull requests merged. That worked when writing code was done by hand and took time.

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I used to be proud of how fast I could get software work done. Over a decade of muscle memory and pattern recognition — I could look at a problem and have something working before most people finished reading the...

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Spend five minutes on LinkedIn and you can spot AI-generated content from across the room. The hollow enthusiasm. The perfectly structured nothing. Five bullet points that somehow say absolutely zero. It all reads like what I imagine the propaganda magazines...

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I’ve been in Asia for a few months now. India. Vietnam. Meeting people from all over along the way. And before I left, I think I had this vague sense that meeting someone from Russia or China would feel… tense?...

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In an era of sleek MacBooks and powerful smartphones, there’s something deeply satisfying about the chunky keyboards, glowing CRT monitors, and the mechanical symphony of a floppy disk drive. Retro computing isn’t just about nostalgia—it’s about understanding the foundations of...

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