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AI for Professionals2 min read
A sheet holding invoices and stock quietly reformatted amounts and dates, so the totals stopped being true. It also took about 30 seconds to open. That is the point a database stops being overkill.
AI for Professionals2 min read
A screen recording was supposed to save me writing out the steps. It took longer than typing them, the clip ran about 10 minutes, and the reply never came.
AI for Professionals3 min read
Other providers delivered it. Gmail sent it to spam. The cause was not SPF or DKIM, it was a no-reply address that did not exist as a mailbox, and the DNS wait to prove it was about 4 hours.
AI for Professionals2 min read
Ollama runs on my laptop's entry-level NVIDIA card and answers from a 3B model. The answers are worse than the hosted plans, and the machine heats up while I sit there doing nothing else.
AI for Professionals3 min read
My pipeline runs lint, type-check, tests, build and deploy. It used to take over 10 minutes. Two changes brought it to about 4, and neither of them was dropping a step.
AI for Professionals1 min read
I ran Fireflies and Google Meet's Take notes on two real calls. They mixed up who said what, and they lost the Hindi and Gujarati parts.
AI for Professionals2 min read
Chrome's manager has held my logins for more than four years and costs nothing. Bitwarden Premium is $19.80 a year. Here is what the money buys, and the one thing the free one keeps getting wrong.
AI for Professionals3 min read
The terminal advice online is a list of things to install. I am on plain bash with the terminal my desktop came with, and the part that actually saved me time was 5 aliases.
AI for Professionals2 min read
A hosted provider's console is the fastest way to look at a table, until the table gets big. Mine started crawling and crashing at about 100,000 rows, and psql did not care.
AI for Professionals2 min read
I write this site's code with both. Claude Pro costs me $20 a month and its cap stops me 2 or 3 days a week. ChatGPT is free for me and still the one I open first.
AI for Professionals2 min read
A research answer for a client came back with 5 citations. One page did not contain the claim, another quoted a price the vendor had already changed. Here is what a citation actually proves.
AI for Professionals2 min read
A state bug on this site took roughly 1 hour with Claude Pro, and I rewrote only a few of its lines. Both of its real mistakes were the same kind of mistake.