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The Vibe Coder's Impostor Syndrome

Feeling inadequate in front of AI isn't a sign you don't belong - it's the sign you're actually putting yourself to the test.

P Piero Savastano
July 16, 2026
3 min read

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How to Squeeze Money Out of a Vibecoder

The bottleneck has moved from writing code to securing it - and that shift is a business opportunity.

P Piero Savastano
July 8, 2026
3 min read

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The Truth About Fable, After the Ban

The Mythos-to-Fable hype cycle, the ban, and the compute economics that quietly make these models dumber.

P Piero Savastano
July 3, 2026
7 min read

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The Richard Dawkins Controversy

Dawkins says he thinks Claude is conscious. Everyone called him a senile old man. I think he nailed it.

P Piero Savastano
June 29, 2026
3 min read

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Reading Brautigan's 'All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace'

Where the title of Amodei’s famous AI essay comes from - a 1967 Richard Brautigan poem, read aloud.

P Piero Savastano
June 28, 2026
3 min read

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You Need a Passport to Use AI

ID and age checks are coming to AI, and OpenAI is turning into a kind of token bank you have to register with.

P Piero Savastano
June 26, 2026
2 min read

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Work Shifts to the Bottlenecks

AI does not just automate tasks - it moves human work to whatever constraint is now scarce.

P Piero Savastano
June 18, 2026
4 min read

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Is It Worth Writing Code?

A live conversation with Giuseppe Funicello on whether writing code, learning frameworks, and building products still pays off.

P Piero Savastano
June 15, 2026
14 min read

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The Truth About the Fable Ban

Why the US government restricted Anthropic Fable and Mythos models, and why I think surveillance is the real story.

P Piero Savastano
June 15, 2026
6 min read

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Live on RAI Radio1

I'm on Italian public radio talking Anthropic, the SpaceX valuation, and what AI means for programmers.

P Piero Savastano
June 13, 2026
1 min read

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The Truth About Mythos and Fable 5

Why premium AI models are sold "by the sip" - and why the "too dangerous" safety framing is really about B2B pricing.

P Piero Savastano
June 12, 2026
4 min read

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Anthropic: World Champions of Eloquent Gibberish

Anthropic keeps calling for an AI slowdown - but the simpler explanation is they fell behind on compute.

P Piero Savastano
June 6, 2026
2 min read

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Mind and Brain Are the Same Thing

A neuroscientist pushes back on mind-body dualism: intelligence is physical, machines understand, and we are beautiful biological machines.

P Piero Savastano
June 5, 2026
6 min read

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Help Pope Leo Smash the Data Centers

The new encyclical on AI is sharper and more political than I expected - and it's a little embarrassing that the Pope has to be the one saying it.

P Piero Savastano
May 27, 2026
3 min read

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Vibe-Coding Session on the Pope's Encyclical: Highlights

Reading the new AI encyclical, building a Pope-vs-Big-Tech video game with Claude Code, and finding the exact limits of vibe coding.

P Piero Savastano
May 26, 2026
8 min read

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Faggin Hasn't Understood AI

Inventing the microchip doesn't make you right forever. You don't need quantum mechanics to explain intelligence - it's a physical process.

P Piero Savastano
May 25, 2026
3 min read

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Two Branches of AI, What Will Happen?

You have a million euros to bet on the future of AI: the personal digital twin that lives on your computer, or intelligence as a networked service. Where do you put it?

P Piero Savastano
May 24, 2026
2 min read

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AI as Coordination, Not Just Automation

We're used to framing AI as automation. But its deeper role might be coordination - aligning people and organizations where before we had to do it by hand.

P Piero Savastano
May 23, 2026
5 min read

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Low-Level Programming? Stuff for Old People

Every generation has its grumpy old-timers. The pointer-and-memory diehards were ours. The next one? Us - the ones who still insist on writing code at all.

P Piero Savastano
May 21, 2026
3 min read

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You Still Haven't Understood What MCP Is For

'MCP is dead, now there are CLIs and skills.' No. MCP was never about the toys on your laptop - it's about composable AI agents used by groups of people over the network.

P Piero Savastano
May 18, 2026
3 min read

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Why SaaS Died with AI

AI is raw intelligence sold by consumption, not by subscription - and that quietly breaks the economics that made software-as-a-service work.

P Piero Savastano
April 27, 2026
3 min read

ai software future-of-work
Happy Liberation (from American AI)

On Liberation Day, a case against central authorities deciding what counts as truth - and for slowly freeing ourselves from the foreign providers that shape our language and our machines.

P Piero Savastano
April 25, 2026
5 min read

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Molotov on Altman's House - the AI Anger Phase

Reading the AI transition through the psychology of grief: after a long denial phase, I now see the anger phase arriving, and it worries me.

P Piero Savastano
April 20, 2026
3 min read

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The Truth About Anthropic and Mythos

When AI CEOs make public statements, read the subtext: negate what they say, ask what interest they have, and check the historical context - it leads you straight to the truth.

P Piero Savastano
April 18, 2026
7 min read

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Old Age Teaches: From GPT-2 to Mythos

The "too dangerous to release" routine is not new: OpenAI already played that card with GPT-2, and it is a magic trick to lure the gullible, not a safety measure.

P Piero Savastano
April 14, 2026
2 min read

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Reply to @Devmy - Which AI to Use in Your Company

Stop agonizing over which AI vendor to lock into. Treat intelligence like electricity from a pipe, start anywhere, and focus on standards and practices so you can switch whenever you want.

P Piero Savastano
April 11, 2026
6 min read

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Agentic Engineering - 6 Tips to Use Fewer Tokens

Six practical habits to spend fewer tokens and keep your coding agent sharp: clean context, package skills, and ask precise questions.

P Piero Savastano
April 6, 2026
5 min read

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Skills vs MCP for AI Agents

Two ways to make your agents composable: MCP servers for networked services shared by groups, and skills for local, reusable workflows.

P Piero Savastano
April 3, 2026
7 min read

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From GPT-3 (2020) to Claude Code (2026) - Easy Whiteboard Explanation

A whiteboard walk through the three big jumps that took us from a language model to an agent: GPT-3, ChatGPT, and Claude Code.

P Piero Savastano
March 26, 2026
7 min read

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AI Destroys the Job Market (Translators vs Programmers)

What automation already did to translators is the same storm now hitting developers and every other white-collar job.

P Piero Savastano
March 23, 2026
3 min read

future-of-work ai agentic-coding
Claude Opus Is Smarter Than Me

Refusing to admit that these models can out-code you given the right context is just denial, and I make a living teaching people to get out of that loop.

P Piero Savastano
March 21, 2026
2 min read

ai agentic-coding future-of-work
How to Get Started with Agentic Development

Four pieces of advice to get past your resistance and start experimenting with agentic development - because none of this is black and white.

P Piero Savastano
March 16, 2026
4 min read

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They Insult Me Because I Use AI

People call my AI communication toxic and say I am selling FOMO. The truth is simpler: big change lands like trauma, and a lot of people are stuck in denial.

P Piero Savastano
March 15, 2026
6 min read

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If You Don't Try AI Agents You're Incompetent

We are already on the second generation of AI. The first was chatbots that only spit out text; the second is agents that actually act on the world, and if you are still arguing about chatbots you have missed the jump.

P Piero Savastano
March 8, 2026
7 min read

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I've Already Changed Jobs 4 Times Because of AI: My Story

From neural-network researcher to web developer to data scientist to open-source maintainer: living right next to AI has forced me to reinvent my career at least four times, and it is far from over.

P Piero Savastano
February 25, 2026
14 min read

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Information

A one-minute take on Shannon: information is the negative logarithm of probability, and on top of it we build understanding and intelligence.

P Piero Savastano
February 24, 2026
2 min read

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Epstein vs ICE in Western Social Media Algorithms

Why do the Epstein files flood Western TikTok while ICE content quietly disappears? A short note on the probabilistic censorship built into recommendation engines.

P Piero Savastano
February 21, 2026
2 min read

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Winner Takes All with Compute and Data Centers

This wave of AI automates cognition across the board, and whoever owns the infrastructure, energy and data takes it all - while the rest of us are left scrambling.

P Piero Savastano
February 18, 2026
5 min read

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#vibechallenge

A three-way experiment to find out for yourself whether coding with AI is real or just hype: take a side project you never shipped and build it three different ways.

P Piero Savastano
February 13, 2026
3 min read

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The TRUTH About Moltbook

AI agents did not build their own social network to organize a revolution. Behind the Moltbook hype are humans installing skills, editing prompts, and cashing in on the virality.

P Piero Savastano
January 31, 2026
12 min read

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AI Is Way Smarter Than Me

Admitting that AI agents are smarter than me at writing code does not make me feel smaller. It just moves the question to what actually makes us human.

P Piero Savastano
January 23, 2026
3 min read

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Software as a Commodity and Enshittification

What happened to photography when smartphones arrived may be happening to software now, and I want to think through where that leads for the attention economy.

P Piero Savastano
January 17, 2026
4 min read

ai vibe-coding software future-of-work
AI Agents Are Simply Software

The language model is stateless: it takes context in and spits one token out. An agent is just the software you wrap around it to give it memory and actions. Everything else follows from that.

P Piero Savastano
January 5, 2026
7 min read

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Advice for Overcoming Impostor Syndrome in AI

I am behind, I am not capable, I feel useless: the three things my fellow technicians keep saying, and why that very uncertainty is the real sign of competence.

P Piero Savastano
January 1, 2026
13 min read

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Amazon's BUY FOR ME and the Implications for E-commerce

With Buy for Me, Amazon sends an AI agent to buy products from stores outside its own platform on your behalf, and that is a much bigger shift than another nerdy automation demo.

P Piero Savastano
December 30, 2025
3 min read

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ASMR on Artificial Intelligence, Episode 34

You do not need a grand plan to get into AI. Just start playing with it, and the ideas for your own work will come on their own.

P Piero Savastano
December 28, 2025
2 min read

ai future-of-work opinion
ChatGPT's Apps Are MCP Servers - Reaction to @simone_rizzo98

Under the hood, ChatGPT apps are just MCP servers, and this is why MCP is quietly winning while Google A2A struggles.

P Piero Savastano
December 22, 2025
5 min read

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You're a Manager of AI Agents

Vibe coding is giving way to structured, agent-driven development where you review pull requests instead of crossing your fingers.

P Piero Savastano
December 21, 2025
3 min read

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The Truth About the TOON Format

The new TOON format promises to save you tokens at scale, but you spend more tokens explaining it to the model than you ever save - and no, you are not scaling anyway.

P Piero Savastano
November 19, 2025
4 min read

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Let's Read Anthropic's Research Together - INTROSPECTION in LLMs

A guided read-through of Anthropic's 'Signs of Introspection' paper: how concept vectors get injected into a network, and why the model can sometimes name what was done to it.

P Piero Savastano
November 12, 2025
8 min read

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The Black Mirror of AI

AI is a black mirror: you can not see inside it, but it reflects what you think of yourself and of what makes humans special.

P Piero Savastano
November 8, 2025
3 min read

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3 Real-World Use Cases for AI: Doctor Visits, Job Interviews, and Civil Litigation

We keep talking about AI revolutionizing healthcare, hiring, and the courts, but the prerequisite for AI is data that exists and talks to itself, and in the real world that data simply is not there.

P Piero Savastano
October 30, 2025
5 min read

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4 Ways to Make Money with AI

From the con-artist grift to AI as a feature, AI first products, and platform plays - the four real ways people are making money with artificial intelligence.

P Piero Savastano
October 27, 2025
5 min read

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How to Get Started with AI? Is It Worth It?

It is worth it precisely because everything is still fragmented and uncertain, and here is the concrete path in: mess with the online services, then learn context, memory and tools.

P Piero Savastano
October 16, 2025
8 min read

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AI + Copy/Paste, Reaction to @MgpF

A journalist copy-pasting straight from ChatGPT is not a gaffe, it is the use case handed to you on a plate: the agent should send the work where it belongs, with human review by design.

P Piero Savastano
October 14, 2025
5 min read

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AI Bubble Coming Soon

There are real signs of an AI bubble, but if it bursts it burns the greedy investors, not the technology - just like the dotcom crash never cancelled the web.

P Piero Savastano
October 11, 2025
3 min read

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Wanna Marchi and Artificial Intelligence

AI is neither total automation nor useless hype. It lives on a continuous line between manual and automatic, and the honest work is figuring out where on that line your case belongs.

P Piero Savastano
October 6, 2025
3 min read

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What Is an AI AGENT

A plain-language explainer: an agent is software that wraps a language model, building the prompt with retrieved context and tools and interpreting the response before it reaches you.

P Piero Savastano
August 9, 2025
7 min read

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August 7, 2025

My hot take on the GPT-5 launch: incremental additions, a cringe-worthy live demo, and the clearest sign yet that OpenAI has stopped innovating.

P Piero Savastano
August 7, 2025
3 min read

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AI 2027 Is Bullshit

The doomer scenario where AI takes over in two years misses the point: the short-term story is about infrastructure, power concentration, and how jobs change.

P Piero Savastano
August 5, 2025
5 min read

ai opinion politics future-of-work
How to Make Estimates with AI

Why I keep refusing to build fully automatic quoting systems: language models do not do math, and the real business rules live as implicit knowledge in human heads.

P Piero Savastano
August 1, 2025
6 min read

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The Bullshit of Desperate CEOs

When a CEO brags about firing his staff thanks to AI, it's usually a valuation stunt - and the real winners are the ones who own the data centers.

P Piero Savastano
July 31, 2025
2 min read

ai future-of-work opinion ai-strategy
How Kenyans and Venezuelans Are Being Exploited by the AI Market

The reason ChatGPT is polite and safe is an invisible workforce of underpaid annotators in the poorest corners of the world, hunted for being educated and desperate.

P Piero Savastano
July 24, 2025
8 min read

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Artificial Intelligence Is Superior to Human Intelligence (No Contest)

Machines are already smarter than us in many ways, and pretending otherwise is a distraction from the real problem: who owns the infrastructure.

P Piero Savastano
July 23, 2025
4 min read

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Transformer and Attention in LLMs

What actually sits inside the black box of a language model: the Transformer architecture, attention blocks, and why language is just a time series to a machine.

P Piero Savastano
July 19, 2025
6 min read

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What Is RAG?

RAG sounds complicated, but the acronym already tells you everything: you retrieve relevant content and stuff it into the prompt so the model has the answer in front of it.

P Piero Savastano
July 16, 2025
4 min read

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'Computer Use' Agents vs 'As a Service' Agents

Two kinds of AI agents are taking shape - the ones that grab your mouse and click around for you, and the ones that quietly talk to network services and just get it done.

P Piero Savastano
July 12, 2025
2 min read

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ChatGPT Is Like a COCKROACH

After a nighttime fight with a giant cockroach, a reflection on collective intelligence, embodiment, and why AI might be less a mind in a box and more a swarm-like form of artificial life.

P Piero Savastano
July 10, 2025
5 min read

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Zero Click Search - AI Dominates Web Search

AI engines are answering search queries directly, and fewer people are clicking through to the sites that produced the information. This changes everything about how we make and monetize content.

P Piero Savastano
July 9, 2025
5 min read

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Down with the Sales Guy

Technicians feel they know nothing about AI while bullshitters sell it and hand the real work to us. Stop it: you already know AI, raise your prices, and refuse to be the hidden fixer.

P Piero Savastano
July 7, 2025
5 min read

ai future-of-work opinion consulting
Guide to AI Basics

A plain-language tour of the terms you keep hearing: model, agent, RAG, MCP, GPUs and data centers, and the Cheshire Cat.

P Piero Savastano
July 6, 2025
8 min read

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UX + AI Principles

An appeal to designers and technicians: flat information architecture, mixed conversational and graphic interfaces, and human-in-the-loop as the design frontier of AI products.

P Piero Savastano
July 1, 2025
8 min read

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AI News - World Models, Software 3.0, A2A

Three things worth noting: Meta's video world models, Karpathy's Software 3.0 talk, and Google donating the A2A protocol to the Linux Foundation.

P Piero Savastano
June 30, 2025
4 min read

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Corporate Propaganda via AI R&D

When Big Tech publishes AI research, read past the method and the results - there is almost always a corporate message baked into the conclusions.

P Piero Savastano
June 22, 2025
3 min read

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Posts tagged with

The Vibe Coder's Impostor Syndrome

How to Squeeze Money Out of a Vibecoder

The Truth About Fable, After the Ban

The Richard Dawkins Controversy

Reading Brautigan's 'All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace'

You Need a Passport to Use AI

Work Shifts to the Bottlenecks

Is It Worth Writing Code?

The Truth About the Fable Ban

Live on RAI Radio1

The Truth About Mythos and Fable 5

Anthropic: World Champions of Eloquent Gibberish

Mind and Brain Are the Same Thing

Help Pope Leo Smash the Data Centers

Vibe-Coding Session on the Pope's Encyclical: Highlights

Faggin Hasn't Understood AI

Two Branches of AI, What Will Happen?

AI as Coordination, Not Just Automation

Low-Level Programming? Stuff for Old People

You Still Haven't Understood What MCP Is For

Why SaaS Died with AI

Happy Liberation (from American AI)

Molotov on Altman's House - the AI Anger Phase

The Truth About Anthropic and Mythos

Old Age Teaches: From GPT-2 to Mythos

Reply to @Devmy - Which AI to Use in Your Company

Agentic Engineering - 6 Tips to Use Fewer Tokens

Skills vs MCP for AI Agents

From GPT-3 (2020) to Claude Code (2026) - Easy Whiteboard Explanation

AI Destroys the Job Market (Translators vs Programmers)

Claude Opus Is Smarter Than Me

How to Get Started with Agentic Development

They Insult Me Because I Use AI

If You Don't Try AI Agents You're Incompetent

I've Already Changed Jobs 4 Times Because of AI: My Story

Information

Epstein vs ICE in Western Social Media Algorithms

Winner Takes All with Compute and Data Centers

#vibechallenge

The TRUTH About Moltbook

AI Is Way Smarter Than Me

Software as a Commodity and Enshittification

AI Agents Are Simply Software

Advice for Overcoming Impostor Syndrome in AI

Amazon's BUY FOR ME and the Implications for E-commerce

ASMR on Artificial Intelligence, Episode 34

ChatGPT's Apps Are MCP Servers - Reaction to @simone_rizzo98

You're a Manager of AI Agents

The Truth About the TOON Format

Let's Read Anthropic's Research Together - INTROSPECTION in LLMs

The Black Mirror of AI

3 Real-World Use Cases for AI: Doctor Visits, Job Interviews, and Civil Litigation

4 Ways to Make Money with AI

How to Get Started with AI? Is It Worth It?

AI + Copy/Paste, Reaction to @MgpF

AI Bubble Coming Soon

Wanna Marchi and Artificial Intelligence

What Is an AI AGENT

August 7, 2025

AI 2027 Is Bullshit

How to Make Estimates with AI

The Bullshit of Desperate CEOs

How Kenyans and Venezuelans Are Being Exploited by the AI Market

Artificial Intelligence Is Superior to Human Intelligence (No Contest)

Transformer and Attention in LLMs

What Is RAG?

'Computer Use' Agents vs 'As a Service' Agents

ChatGPT Is Like a COCKROACH

Zero Click Search - AI Dominates Web Search

Down with the Sales Guy

Guide to AI Basics

UX + AI Principles

AI News - World Models, Software 3.0, A2A

Corporate Propaganda via AI R&D