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AI tooling, hardening, the gap between demo and production.
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A daily-use World Cup 2026 dashboard, built with an agentic workflow, ended the way most side projects don't: deliberately. What the architecture looked like, what the prediction data actually said, and how you archive a live thing so it still works in ten years.
SIDE-PROJECT · ENGINEERING · WORLD-CUP · DATA · AI-TOOLS · ARCHIVE
A practical guide to replacing the Anthropic API with a local llama.cpp server, Qwen 3.6 27B, and the Pi coding agent, and why the move from Ollama to llama.cpp now makes sense for daily coding.
AI · CLAUDE-CODE · LLAMA-CPP · QWEN · LOCAL-LLM · PI · DEVELOPER-TOOLS
AI agents are approaching total competence, and the largest risk they pose is not automation but obedience to poorly examined goals.
AI · AGENCY · JUDGMENT · FUTURE-OF-WORK · PHILOSOPHY
A couple in Brisbane holding Bitcoin with a baby on the way face the question defining a generation of Australian savers: when your asset falls 47% and property prices keep rising, can you afford to wait?
FINANCE · BITCOIN · AUSTRALIA · PROPERTY · CRYPTO · STRATEGY
In 44 BC, Rome's most devoted republicans stabbed Caesar to stop a monarchy and got an empire. In 1902, French administrators in Hanoi offered a penny per rat tail and got rat farms. Both disasters share a cause. So does the way we are building AI.
Running Claude Code locally with Ollama and open-source models as a free alternative to the Anthropic API
AI · CLAUDE-CODE · OLLAMA · OPEN-SOURCE · LOCAL-LLM · DEVELOPER-TOOLS
Running Claude Code in Docker Sandboxes
DOCKER · CLAUDE-CODE · AI-AGENTS · SECURITY · DEVOPS
A pragmatic essay on why adaptive mindset, not raw genius, will determine who thrives through AI-era disruption.