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You want a software factory or even merely hyper-fast agentic development, without devolving into a low quality, buggy product[1]. In the old days[2], I would spin off half a dozen agents, bottling lightning to produce oodles of functionality - and then end up spending much of my day testing their work.
Continue...In my hot new AI startup, I'm charging $20 a month for an AI that automatically sends you photos of your pet whenever your Ring camera spots them.
Continue...I made a small side project (blog post, Github) to analyze international index funds, timeboxed to 4 hours. It makes a good spike since it has reasonable coverage of fullstack work: light but reasonable React frontend, NextJS backend routes, several different API integrations (yahoo finance, federal reserve economic data), and some basic caching.
Continue...Poland's exports are booming, and whenever I see news like this I'm curious to visit the country and see what life is like compared to all the headlines. I also become curious about how that might reflect in investing - what is the index fund like? How easy is it to invest in it from the US? Should I start my own hedge fund and make zillions? (shhh, perhaps not quite that easy)
Continue...It's tough for an aspiring Iron Man to work on creating their personal AI assistant on the weekends. Like any other time-pressured inventor without a PhD in computer science and linguistics, I decided to use a library for speech recognition and synthesis. Fortunately, Python offers several choices. Unfortunately, many of simply them don't work any more. I will discuss the ones that are still functional and can be used with Python 2.7 and Python 3.
Continue...I'm sure you're all familiar with Nicolas Cage and his birdlike photoshopped hair. Or should I say... boidlike hair?
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