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I’m really excited by this one. When Gemini 2.5 Pro came out months ago, it was incredible, but Anthropic and OpenAI caught up quickly. Gemini 3 is something else altogether. It’s head and shoulders above the rest. I built a personal AI boxing coach that tracks my hand movements through my computer’s camera in real-time…

When Parallel AI first announced their Deep Research API, I was intrigued. I played around with it and thought it did a great job. Of course, I pay for ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini so I don’t really have need for another Deep Research product. And I’ve already built my own. So I set Parallel aside……

I was talking to a friend recently about an idea he had for generating AI podcasts in the format of How I Built This. He wanted to be able to just enter the name of a company and get a podcast on all the details of how it was started, on demand. One way I’d…

In the Matrix, there’s a scene where Morpheus is loading training programs into Neo’s brain and he wakes up from it and says, “I know Kung Fu.” That’s basically what Claude skills are. They’re a set of instructions that teach Claude how to do a certain thing. You explain it once in a document, like…

In a previous post, I wrote about how I built a competitor monitoring system for a marketing team. We used Firecrawl to detect changes on competitor sites and blog content, and alert the marketing team with a custom report. That was the first phase of a larger project. The second phase was tracking the competitors’…

Last week, Factory gave us a masterclass in how to launch a product in a crowded space. While every major AI company and their aunt already has a CLI coding agent, all I kept hearing about was Factory and their Droid agents. So, it is just another CLI coding agent or is there some sauce…

I recently worked with a company to help their marketing team set up a custom competitive intelligence system. They’re in a hyper-competitive space and with new AI products sprouting up in their industry every day, the list of companies they keep tabs on is multiplying. While the overall project is part of a larger build…

Every week, 700 million people fire up ChatGPT and send more than 18 billion messages. That’s about 10% of the world’s adults, collectively talking to a chatbot at a rate of 29,000 messages per second. The question is: what on earth are they talking about? OpenAI and a team of economists recently released a fascinating…

I’ve spent the last year deep in the trenches with every major AI coding tool. I’ve built everything from simple MVPs to complex agents, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that the tools change, but the patterns remain consistent. I’ve already written deep-dive guides on some of these tools – Claude Code, Amp…

I first tried out Amp Code a few months ago around the same time I started getting into Claude Code. Claude had just announced a feature where I could use my existing monthly subscription instead of paying for extra API costs, so I didn’t give Amp a fair shake. Over the last couple of weeks,…