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AI Training is held together by duct tape and hope

AI Development in 2025: Still Building the Plane While Flying It

27 May 2025

AI development feels like raiding a post-apocalyptic junkyard for beta tools, strapping them together with duct tape, and hoping your makeshift plane doesn’t explode midair.
  • ai development, DevOps, LLM Engineering, machine learning, Open Source Tools
taylor swift syndrome in IT: Calm the hell down.

The Taylor Swift Syndrome: Why Tech Freaks Out Over Every New Tool

20 May 2025

Tech needs to stop losing its mind over every new tool like it’s a Taylor Swift drop. Most “revolutionary” launches from Web3 to Clubhouse fizzled fast. Real progress isn’t loud, it’s layered, tested, and boring.
  • ai hype, automation, nft collapse, overhyped technology, tech culture, tool fatigue, web3
We're not training junior coders any longer.

We’re Raising Prompt Monkeys, Not Engineers

13 May 2025

AI is making junior devs faster, but also dumber. We’re killing the very grind that builds senior talent. That’s a long-term disaster in the making.
  • ai, coding, experience, future, junior, senior
Rational analysis of AI and why AGI is still far away

AGI Is Not Around the Corner: Why Today’s LLMs Aren’t True Intelligence

5 May 2025

Today’s LLMs like GPT-4 and Claude are impressive pattern-recognition tools, but they’re not anywhere near true intelligence. Despite the hype, they lack core AGI traits like reasoning, autonomy, and real-world understanding. This article cuts through the noise, explaining why fears of imminent AGI are wildly premature.
  • agi, ai, future, large language models, LLM, llm limitations, machine learning
News aggregation model

Real AI Automation Isn’t a Prompt. It’s a Pipeline

1 May 2025

AI isn’t about calling the biggest model. It’s about building smart, layered systems that use the right model for the right job. This real-world automation pulls, scrapes, filters, deduplicates, scores, summarizes, and publishes using GPT-4.1, GPT-4o, 4o-mini, and DALL·E 3 where they shine, not just where they’re trendy.
  • ai, automation, news
AI Middle layer is where the rubber meets the road

The Rise of the AI Middle Layer: Automation’s Final Boss

28 Apr 2025

The real power in AI isn’t the model: It’s the middle layer that wraps logic, automation, and infrastructure around it. If you’re not building that, you’re not building anything that lasts.
  • ai, automation, development

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