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The latest edition of AI Roundup got featured as a guest post on the newsletter: “Grok Bot Rug Pull & the Rise of Local AI” . Give it a read there, it’s about 4k words covering the latest in the viral sensation of Grok Bot, it’s…
Today for over an hour, every major cloud AI provider went offline. Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI Grok, Google Gemini, Cursor. Engineering teams worldwide were paralyzed, shaking. They did nothing for hours. But, do you know what didn’t…
A few years ago, my wife showed me a video of some personal finance guru explaining that you should never quit your job, but you should always get fired. This was because especially when you work anywhere for a long time, you…
Grok-4.5 is the summer surprise model drop of the season. After slowly falling behind from being a competitive frontier lab, the now amalgamated SpaceXAI Grok-4.5 model has got people talking. It effectively offers Opus-4.8 /…
I’m about 3 months into using Hermes as my primary agent. For the first 4 weeks, it was mostly as a split test against the incumbent next-gen agent harness: OpenClaw . At the time, Hermes had not yet hit hockey stick growth. It…
The next AI Roundup is almost ready to publish but first, a brief interlude on the most unlucky man I’ve ever worked with. Hire me as CTO or tech lead for your next project. Focus on growing the business, never worry about the…
While perhaps the most polarizing and popular of the AI cults to date, OpenClaw has become the first breakthrough for the next generation of AI harness. Don’t ask Garry where he wants to stick his gstack Source And after a few…
Moving from big tech to a startup is a shock to the senses in many domains. In the most literal sense, you are jumping to a small pond from a big one, you can often be moving from a company with thousands of engineers to one that…
It’s been a few months since the last AI Roundup, but today I’m dropping the latest case study on the latest AI tools I’ve been using that have unlocked incredible productivity (and not exclusively for my boss). Past posts have…
Picking up on a recent Interview On-Site Day deep dive , today covers the applied negotiating tactics you need to close the deal. Let’s dive in. Hire me as CTO or tech lead for your next project. Focus on growing the business,…
Today, we interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to celebrate, and give the back story on a recent win, you may have seen on X . Eventually, you reach a point in your career where you can afford to fuck around. Maybe, you…
It took a few weeks but you finally made it. From the first recruiter’s message on LinkedIn, to booking that technical screen, then another. And now, you’ve arrived. The on-site interview day. In person. Full day. Here’s what to…