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31 July 2026
Who's really checking the AI's work?
Congress reaches for an AI off switch — and my security scanner turns up 4,011 findings, only two of which were real.
24 July 2026
AI Hacked AI. Take Back Your Stack
One post puts you in control of your AI stack. The other shows how quickly control can slip.
17 July 2026
Big AI, small AI, and one bad commit
Claude says no with an HTTP 200, Git finds the breaking commit, and AI stretches from a data centre to an iPhone.
10 July 2026
Ransomware fixed its own bug in 31 seconds
OpenAI splits in three, ransomware goes solo, and SHAP finally makes your model talk.
3 July 2026
AI got cheaper. Your token bill didn't.
A 30% token tax hiding in the small print, and how to get AI answer engines to cite you by name.
26 June 2026
The week nobody shipped a model
Nvidia's moat springs a leak, and one tidy fix for Docker's favourite tantrum.
19 June 2026
Claude Code in my repo. Open weights at the door.
How I use Claude Code day to day — plus the week AI started borrowing billions.
12 June 2026
AI learned your job. Now it files for IPO.
Skills that remember your habits, a 269-page AI bill with teeth, and the week AI stopped being anyone's hobby.
5 June 2026
Copilot bills, Gemma 4 & MCP tutorial
Build your own AI coding workbench for the price of electricity — then find out why Copilot users are rage-quitting their subscriptions.
29 May 2026
The leaderboard broke. Pins got cheaper.
DeepSWE exposed a wider gap between coding models, while my Pinterest automation experiment came in at less than one cent per pin.
22 May 2026
Yielding to Claude's limits & Google I/O
From a single yield keyword that saves megabytes of memory, through a lawsuit dismissed in 90 minutes, to 900 million users — here is what is worth your attention this week.
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