Elena' s AI Blog

Newsletter archive

Weekly notes on AI tools, Python, and what I'm actually building. Browse a few issues to see what lands in your inbox — then subscribe if it sounds useful.

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.