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What is actually happening in AI, and what it changes for a business the size of yours. Written to a standing brief, checked before it ships, and sourced so you can go verify it yourself. Search it, filter it, argue with it.

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AI Without the Hype

12 Jul 2026

Most AI content is either breathless hype or quiet fear. Here is how I actually think about what these tools do, and a simple test for telling a parlor trick from something worth building on.

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Build, Don't Buy: When to Make It Yourself

08 Jul 2026

The line between subscribing to another tool and building your own just moved, hard, and most people have not noticed. Here is the framework I use to decide.

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What Vibe Coding Actually Is

04 Jul 2026

Vibe coding gets mocked as clicking buttons until something works. That is not what it is. Here is what it actually takes to ship real software with AI, from someone who does it.

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Honest Marketing Metrics in the AI Era

28 Jun 2026

AI flooded the web with content and quietly broke a lot of the metrics we trusted. Here are the signals I still believe, and the vanity numbers I stopped reporting.