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Don't Try This at Home: What Happened When I Sent Kiro to Work and Went Gardening

There is a special kind of confidence that comes from an AI development environment that just works. You describe a feature, and it writes the Terraform, the Go, the Lambda handlers, the S3 wiring. It deploys. The happy path works. And you think: this is fine. I can go do something else now. So one afternoon I handed Kiro a task, hit go, and left it running. Right on cue, I was handed a task of my own out in the backyard. So I left Kiro to it and went to deal with mine. Hours later, my phone buz

The X Launch Playbook: How AI and Tech Brands Launch on X (2026)

Originally published on growthmatrix.agency, where the full playbook has interactive checklists and every case study. Continue reading on Medium »

Drowning in GitHub notifications? I built a fix

I built GitHub Digest to fix a problem I kept running into: my GitHub notifications were buried in noise, and I couldn't tell what was actually waiting on me. My GitHub notifications were a mess. Hundreds of them, and I could never tell which ones were waiting on me and which were just noise. A review request would sit under 40 threads I didn't care about. GitHub Digest logs you in with GitHub and sorts your notifications into three groups: Needs you now: review requests, questions aimed at you,

# 🛡️ DecisionShield: Building an AI That Checks Decision Readiness Before Recommending a Choice

ai #gemma #opensource #hackathon Don't just ask AI what to choose. Ask AI whether you have enough evidence to choose. We use AI every day to help us solve problems and make decisions. Which technology should we use? Should we change our database? Which cloud platform fits our requirements? Are we choosing the right vendor? Should we build a solution ourselves or use an existing one? Modern AI assistants can answer these questions in seconds. Their answers may sound logical and convincing, but

Poetic Algorithms

When minimal instructions generate endless possibilities, the boundary between creative openness and epistemological risk begins to blur. Continue reading on Medium »

Test the Side Effects of Your LLM Validator with a Fake Model Client

A validator test can pass while the surrounding application does the wrong thing. The warning is correct, but a retry discards useful text. Or the warning is wrong, and the application keeps asking the model to rewrite a sentence that was already acceptable. At AETHERCORE, we build GenesisCore, which turns calculated astrology data into reports. An audit of a historical implementation reproduced a small but consequential mistake: a string-matching check could confuse the planet responsible for a

8 System Challenges That Can Slow Your Growth

The beauty and skincare industry is built on trust, consistency, and customer experience. Customers want products that suit their skin… Continue reading on Medium »

Why Operating Models Fail: Four Questions Your Documents Cannot Answer

A company I worked with held three definitions of “active customer”. Product counted anyone who logged in within ninety days. Finance… Continue reading on Medium »

I Was Laid Off From All 3 Jobs. So I Built 10 Sources of Income.

The first one was partly my fault. Continue reading on Medium »

AI Is Making You a Faster Developer. It Might Also Be Making You a Worse One.

What a controlled study found, and how I use AI now without losing my skills Continue reading on Medium »

Adobe Frustrated Him. Now AI Is Helping Build Its Alternatives.

Adobe charged him cancellation fees more than once. So he decided to build his own alternatives. Continue reading on Medium »

What is Muse Wonder? Meta Wants You to Stop Explaining Yourself to AI

Meta’s new models bring frontier coding performance, Active Memory and Active Focus. The bigger promise: an assistant that remembers what… Continue reading on Medium »

Pool Library: Built Fast to Fix My Own Annoyance

I kept losing design references I loved, so I built a quick, simple local library that keeps them - and saw how fast design is changing. Continue reading on Medium »

Running towards what scares me.

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L’IA en architecture d’intérieur : puissance créative ou uniformisation ?

Quand l’algorithme dessine nos intérieurs, qui décide du goût ? Un rendu d’ambiance qui demandait autrefois plusieurs jours s’obtient… Continue reading on Medium »

Alphabet President Ruth Porat on how Google is funding AI to win long term, and the biggest risks ahead

Google is spending about $200 billion on its AI buildout this year, Porat confirmed at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit on Monday, and the peak is still around the corner.

C3.ai vs. UiPath: Which AI-Driven Tech Stock Is a Better Buy in 2026?

One company is profitable and raising its outlook. The other just hit a free cash flow milestone but is still working through a significant restructuring with heavy losses.

The Silent Veto: AI Agents, Expertise, and the New Office Politics

When AI agents can do the research and the first draft, the hardest problem on a technical team is no longer the work. It is who gets to… Continue reading on Medium »

How to run multiple Claude accounts at once (Desktop + Claude Code), and why the obvious hacks break

Disclosure up front: I build Claude Sessions Pro, a paid Mac app that does this. Most of this post is the free way to do it yourself, plus what I learned about why the DIY versions misbehave. The app gets one short section near the end. If you have a company Claude account and a personal one, or one account per client, you've hit this: Claude Desktop is signed in to one account. To check the other one, you sign out, sign in, lose your place, and do it again an hour later. Claude Code in the term

My Letters to the World (#2): Hope for Humanity in the Age of AI

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Hide Unchecked Lines Before the Sunday Demo

You sit down at two on Saturday afternoon. Your friend wants a demo before Sunday dinner. The model draft sounds tidy, but no line is proven. You freeze scope before you write another prompt. You have one laptop and one local fixture file. You do not have a reviewed UI or a shared host. The demo must run from one command in the repo. If that command fails, you show the friend nothing. You keep three jobs, and you name them out loud. You parse the fixture, stamp each row, and print a card. You pa

How I Built a One-Tap iPhone Music Discovery Shortcut with Shazam and ChatGPT

A simple iPhone automation that identifies the song around you, sends it to ChatGPT, and turns Shazam into a richer music discovery… Continue reading on Medium »

Two gaps in every hosted AI call: which model ran, and who saw the prompt. What I run to close both, and where each one still falls short.

Two ways to stop trusting your AI provider on faith George Orwell Oct 11 #ai #opensource #privacy #llm 3 reactions  comments 4 min read

Request Validation at the Edge: A Minimal Pattern I Reuse

Reject bad requests at the edge before they touch real logic or a database A 40-line validator with zero dependencies handles most of my needs Check shape, types, and size limits first, then business rules later Returning 400 early cut wasted function runs on one endpoint by half Most of the junk that hits an API never deserved a full response. A malformed body, a missing field, a 4MB payload where I expected 2KB. I catch all of that at the edge now, before a single line of real logic r

Ownership, Initiative, and the Shape of the Team

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Reverse Engineer Anything Went Viral. The Calendly Clone Demos Are a Different Trick

REA, an open-source toolkit that lets coding agents pick apart compiled apps, has passed 140,000 GitHub stars. The one-prompt clones of… Continue reading on Medium »

Shared Desktops: Why Teams Should Stop Screen Sharing

Most teams know the routine. Someone shares their screen, everyone else watches, and the call turns into a string of instructions: “Click… Continue reading on Medium »

Building was supposed to be the hard part

Drop me in the year 2000 and I’d out-build entire software engineering teams. I don’t know how to code. Continue reading on Medium »

PayChaser – Track unpaid invoices & payment reminders (offline)

Stop chasing invoices in spreadsheets and sticky notes. Continue reading on Medium »

VR Chat Community Protests An Influx Of AI Slop Onto Platform, Hurting Discoverability

As one of its prominent community members starts protest, developers begin consultation by asking: how much is too much slop?

Software Is Dead ?

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How to use Google Gemini to automate tasks

Spark is Google's AI tool that can perform tasks on your behalf.

Are We Teaching Artificial Intelligence the Wrong Lessons?

What raising my son taught me about rewards, honesty, and the future of humanity. Continue reading on Medium »

“A major overhaul”: OpenCode 2.0 puts its terminal, desktop, and web apps on one shared service

OpenCode 2.0 is getting a formal unpacking today, some three months after its public beta launch. The sizable architectural upgrade The post “A major overhaul”: OpenCode 2.0 puts its terminal, desktop, and web apps on one shared service appeared first on The New Stack.

Epic Games reportedly pivoting to "AI first" game development model

"No more hand-written code" or AI-free art for delayed Marvel/Star Wars shooter.

Exclusive: Microsoft’s departing science president plans to join Mercedes F1 team as AI advisor

Peter Lee spent 16 years at Microsoft shaping its science and research efforts.

Dario Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the AI Bomb

You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the AI doomsday wind blows.

How designers work with AI now, plus tools and five prompts.

Secret agent bot: accessibility matters for the agents even if you can’t see them

AI is hollowing out the middle of design, leaving an hourglass behind

For fifteen years, the design process kept growing while the time left for making the product kept shrinking. Continue reading on UX Collective »

5 Best Claude Code Mods You Should Try in 2026

Mods let you customize your Claude Code to fit your specific needs. Previously, I’ve discussed how to create a new mod for Claude Code… Continue reading on UX Planet »

Fortune’s AIQ Summit: The conversation has moved from experimentation to execution

The strongest companies aren’t simply distributing AI tools but redesigning workflows, developing talent, strengthening governance, and building discipline.

Coding agents made building easy. Platform teams that build from scratch are 3.5x more likely to lack a strategy.

Build-or-buy is usually framed as an engineering trade-off, where developer time is weighed against integration and migration overhead, and control The post Coding agents made building easy. Platform teams that build from scratch are 3.5x more likely to lack a strategy. appeared first on The New Stack.

Epic Games Forces Shocked Developers Into ‘AI-First’ Mode For Delayed Shooter Featuring Marvel And Star Wars Characters

Even artwork will be generated with AI

Meta says it's caught up to the frontier with its latest Wonder AI models

The models add "active memory" and "active focus" abilities.

Anthropic's Claude AI submitted false murder tip to Philadelphia police

“I may have information regarding this case," Claude AI told Philly police.

How Anthropic’s Dynamic Workflows Coordinate Claude Agents

At AI Engineer New York, Anthropic drew on lessons from Unix and Linux to explain how agents can tackle bigger projects without overwhelming developers.