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Technology / Libraries & FrameworksCursor vs. Windsurf vs. Aider: 30 Days of Real Work With Each
ArticleI used Cursor for 10 days, Windsurf for 10 days, and Aider for 10 days — same actual work — and logged every prompt and
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Business / Media & EntertainmentThe Writers' Room That Learned to Use AI — and the One That Fought It
ArticleTwo premium streaming shows, two writers' rooms, two opposite decisions about AI tools — and the answer to which show su
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Business / Transport and LogisticsHow I Made Our Delivery Team's Daily Route Planning 4x Faster with One GPT Agent
ArticleA small delivery operation I help. Route planning took 90 minutes every morning. I wired Gemini to their ops sheet and t
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Business / Real Estate & ConstructionThe Superintendent on a Generative-Design Job Site: When the Drawings Change Faster Than the Crew Can Build
ArticleGenerative design tools let architects iterate buildings in minutes, but on a construction site with active crews, the e
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Business / Government & Public SectorWhy Federal AI Pilots Are Finally Converting to Programs of Record
ArticleFederal agencies spent five years running AI pilots that rarely converted to funded, baseline programs — a pattern the G
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Technology / AI Security & GovernancePrompt Injection Is Not the Biggest LLM Security Risk. Your Tool-Calling Permissions Model Is.
ArticleDuring a red-team exercise against a banking agent with read and write permissions to customer accounts, an indirect pro
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Business / EducationI Built an AI Tutor for My Niece's Algebra Class. Her Teacher Asked for the Link.
ArticleMy niece kept getting stuck on quadratics. I built a Socratic-method tutor that never just gives the answer. Her grade w
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Business / Professional ServicesWhat the Big Four Did to Their AI Economics in 2025, and Why Mid-Tier Firms Are Repricing
ArticleThe Big Four accounting and advisory firms collectively spent an estimated $2.8 billion on AI infrastructure in 2025, su
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Technology / Prompt EngineeringStructured Outputs vs. Function Calling vs. JSON Mode: A Benchmark With Actual Production Data
ArticleI had three ways to get structured output from an LLM. I had actual production data to test against. I benchmarked all t
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Technology / Prompt EngineeringStop Calling It Prompt Engineering. Call It What It Is: Interface Design.
ArticleA health-tech team shipped an AI clinical-note summarizer with a plaintext prompt exposed directly to clinicians; daily
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Business / Energy & UtilitiesFrom Meter Readers to Model Stewards: A Generation of Field Workers in Transition
ArticleThe last utility meter reader in her district retired in February, and the job that nominally replaced hers pays 22% les
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Business / Technology & TelecomHere Is What Happened When I Let an Agent Triage My Startup's Tier-1 Support Queue for a Week
ArticleI let an agent handle Tier-1 support for 7 days. It resolved 64% of tickets without escalation. It also almost promised
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