"Code Is Dead"? What Building a Platform and App Solo With AI Actually Taught Me
Codex framed the app, Cursor did the surgical edits, and a working SIP call-center app got built by one person — the rough UI is the actual lesson here.
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Deleting My Fine-Tuning Notes: From 'Taming a Model' to 'Steering a Process'
Clearing out a year-old Obsidian folder on model fine-tuning made the shift obvious: from chasing model capability to chasing business results through workflow and RAG.
My AI Content Workflow: From Logic Outline to a High-Quality Deck
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A three-step pipeline — outline with Gemini, flesh out a transcript, then let NotebookLM turn both into a presentation — that cut a week of course prep down to a day or two.
Two Days Deep in Moltbot: AI Is Reshaping the Deploy-Configure-Use Path
Watching an agent diagnose its own missed schedule, switch itself from passive to active wake mode, and confirm the fix — without me tracing a single step of it myself.
A Failed Attempt: Tracking a Google Account Suspension and Appeal
Registered a new Google account to pay for steadier API access after hitting rate limits on the free tier — and got flagged as bot-created within a day of paying.
Clawdbot 2026: VPS Deployment and Hardening Diary
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Working around a broken systemd installer, teaching a model to fetch stock data itself when the plugin store isn’t reachable, and locking the firewall down to SSH-only.
Today's Ops Log: Switching AI Tools and Reworking the Network
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Moving from Cursor to OpenAI Codex, two days spent simplifying the network layout, a fix for Podsync’s YouTube rate-limiting, and a disposable-container trick for benchmarking a NAS.
From Dragging Nodes to Stating Intent: Claude Skills Is Ending the Old AI Workflow Era
Why describing what you want in plain language and letting Claude auto-apply a Skill beats another afternoon spent wiring up nodes in Dify, n8n, or Coze.
TPU vs. GPU: A Deep Dive, and Who's Actually Using TPUs
GPUs are the flexible all-rounder with a mature ecosystem; TPUs are the specialist that’s brutally efficient at large-scale matrix math — plus a rundown of who actually trains on TPUs.
What Two AI Models Concluded From My Accident's Dashcam Footage
Asking Gemini Pro and ChatGPT 5.2 to do an engineering-style read on whether emergency braking was slow to react — and what the physics of a ‘ghost probe’ collision actually allow.
Head-to-Head: How Mainstream AI Models Judge a Real Traffic Accident
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After my own Tesla was hit by a car pulling out from under a bridge, I ran the accident photo past ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Copilot, Claude, and a few domestic models to see which ones actually got liability right.
When AI Starts Thinking Like a Designer: Comparing Gemini, Claude Opus, and GPT on a Real Redesign
Three models, one vague brief to redesign a blog’s UX, visuals, and SEO — and a clear split between models that plan first and models that just ship a result.