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AI Is Still Cheap. But for How Long?
For heavy users, cheap AI subscriptions are a capacity-managed bargain. The real price shows up when usage moves to API and enterprise terms.
The Interviewer Problem: Why Better Questions Get Better Answers from People, Experts, and AI
Most people think intelligence lives only in the answer. In reality, a large part of it lives in the question.
AI Coding Did Not Fix Slow Delivery. It Exposed It.
There is this interesting post from the OpenAI Codex team that makes an old truth harder to dodge: once coding gets cheap, every weakness in specs, testing, approvals, and release flow becomes painfully visible.
What building an MCP App in a real Deno + Fresh product looks like
AI chat gets much more useful once it stops explaining software and starts opening it. These are the build notes from making that work in a real Deno + Fresh invoicing product.
From formula to production in a few hours: what a tiny mortgage app taught me about AI-assisted delivery
A small mortgage calculator became a practical case study in modern delivery: formula validation, disposable prototypes, design handoff, constrained AI coding, preview deployments, and the senior judgment still needed to ship something production-worthy.
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