AI's Hidden Environmental Cost: What Every Developer Should Know
Introduction My daughter asked me the other day, “Dad, am I hurting the environment every time I use ChatGPT?” I didn’t have a good answer, so I spent a week d...
Introduction My daughter asked me the other day, “Dad, am I hurting the environment every time I use ChatGPT?” I didn’t have a good answer, so I spent a week d...
Lesson Learned: When AI Knows Too Much I messed up. Not in a small way. In a “the client called me at 11 PM on a Friday” kind of way. We had just deployed a he...
The Problem With “Just Code It” Heres what happens when you ask AI to code without planning: - It guesses – No context about your codebase, so it invents patte...
Or: what this book actually teaches if you read it like an engineer, not a magician. After my last post, a few people replied with variations of: > “Okay smart...
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'Sometimes you need a quick answer. Sometimes you need Claude to really chew on it. Now you control which is which. From: x.com/autocomplete
OP here. Birth of a Mind documents a 'recursive self-modeling' experiment I ran on a single day in 2026. I attempted to implement a 'Hofstadterian Strange Loop'...
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Most AI chatbots work well—until you ask them something specific. Large language models don’t have access to your private documents or internal knowledge. When...
If you're building apps that pass user input to an LLM, you've probably encountered prompt injection at least once. A user might type something like “ignore all...
In the chaotic world of Large Language Model LLM optimization, engineers have spent the last few years developing increasingly esoteric rituals to get better an...
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