Category: IT Industry

  • What if We Just… Made Billionaires Fix Their Companies to Avoid Taxes?

    What if We Just… Made Billionaires Fix Their Companies to Avoid Taxes?

    The honest conversation I had we a few PM’s about wealth taxation What if we taxed billionaires based on whether people actually like their products? Like, legitimately. High customer satisfaction = tax break. Terrible customer experience (looking at you, Comcast) = hefty wealth tax. My first reaction? “Oh no, that’s ridiculous.” My second reaction? “Wait……

  • AI-Powered Cyberattack: When Bots Start Hacking Other Bots

    AI-Powered Cyberattack: When Bots Start Hacking Other Bots

    So here’s something wild that happened in mid-November. Anthropic – the folks behind Claude Code – just came out with details about a massive cyberattack they managed to stop. The attackers? A Chinese state-sponsored hacker group, allegedly. But here’s the kicker: the attack was almost entirely carried out by AI, with barely any human hands…

  • Debunking the Myths: What SEO Professionals Need to Know About AI and LLMs

    Debunking the Myths: What SEO Professionals Need to Know About AI and LLMs

    The Bottom Line – tldr Think critically before purchasing any AI SEO service. Ask detailed questions and don’t hesitate to verify the expertise of the people you’ll be working with. AI is fundamentally about personalization, and the equations are vastly different depending on that personalization. The industry will soon face a reckoning when clients start…

  • When your AI support bot becomes the attack surface

    When your AI support bot becomes the attack surface

    Most businesses today use smart AI-powered chatbots to offload a big chunk of support work from human agents. Done well, these bots save time for both customers and companies. Under the hood, many of these systems rely on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Think of it as a combination of a search engine and a language model.…

  • Google Is Sinking the Pixel Lineup + Android

    Google Is Sinking the Pixel Lineup + Android

    Google’s Pixel phones used to represent the best of Android – clean software, intelligent features, and cameras that consistently punched above their weight. But with the recently released Pixel 10 series and its new Tensor G5 chip, it’s becoming clear that Google has fundamentally lost direction with both its hardware strategy and Android’s future. Tensor…

  • Why digital preservation is failing

    Why digital preservation is failing

    For decades, we’ve had the “comforting” myth that “the internet never forgets.” Yet every week brings news of another digital graveyard – websites shutting down, archives disappearing, and irreplaceable historical content vanishing forever. The recent closure of AnandTech’s article archive is just the latest casualty in what has become a crisis of digital memory. The…

  • Anthropic just dropped one of the best technical posts on multi-agent AI systems

    Anthropic just dropped one of the best technical posts on multi-agent AI systems

    If you’re building anything AI-related, especially around research or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), stop what you’re doing and read this post from Anthropic: How We Built Claude’s Multi-Agent Research System It’s a masterclass in building effective multi-agent architectures – not hand-wavy theory, but actual production-ready details from Claude’s new research system. Think parallel reasoning, dynamic tool…

  • My guide on AI model providers in 2025 (April/May): My hands-on experience

    My guide on AI model providers in 2025 (April/May): My hands-on experience

    After spending months integrating and testing every major AI provider’s API for various projects, I’ve compiled my observations on their strengths, weaknesses, and peculiarities. As someone who values both technical precision and practical implementation, these insights reflect my real-world experience rather than marketing claims. My testing methodology For each provider, I evaluated: Gemini: Technical challenges…

  • Open Source forking: Now what?

    Open Source forking: Now what?

    TLDR: while forking may seem like an attractive solution in certain OSS scenarios or when initiating new projects, it’s crucial to weigh its potential drawbacks carefully. By considering alternative strategies and engaging constructively with the project community or potential stakeholders, developers can foster growth, collaboration, and long-term sustainability of their open-source endeavors without the added…

  • Windows Chaos Before and After Update: What Happened and How We Survived

    Windows Chaos Before and After Update: What Happened and How We Survived

    Windows Login Chaos After April 2025 Update: What Happened and How We Survived Let’s talk about Windows. We all use it… until it decides to do something incredibly Windows. We recently had an odd issue with a laptop running Windows 11. Nothing out of the ordinary – except that after one of Microsoft’s latest updates…