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AI Killed the Learning Curve and Nobody Gives a Shit
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AI Killed the Learning Curve and Nobody Gives a Shit

I started programming at 12, writing RATs and trojans in Delphi because that’s what Romanian kids did in 2002. By 21 I was a literature graduate building CRMs from scratch …

docker-qwenspeak: Text-to-Speech Over SSH Because APIs Are Overrated
AI / Containers / Python

docker-qwenspeak: Text-to-Speech Over SSH Because APIs Are Overrated

Every cloud TTS service is the same story. Send text, get audio, pay per character, pray the API doesn’t change. Your audio goes to someone else’s servers. Your costs scale …

docker-stealthy-auto-browse: The Browser That Doesn’t Know It’s Being Automated
AI / Containers / Python

docker-stealthy-auto-browse: The Browser That Doesn’t Know It’s Being Automated

I’ve been automating browsers for years. Selenium, Puppeteer, Playwright: used them all, watched them all get caught. The arms race between bot detection and browser automation has been going on …

Why LLMs Will Never Catch Your “Cool As Fuck” Moments (And Why That Matters)
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Why LLMs Will Never Catch Your “Cool As Fuck” Moments (And Why That Matters)

I had this moment recently that made me realize something fundamental about how LLMs work versus how humans process information. I was showing Claude a conversation where a corporate recruiter …

Claude Code’s Revenge Mechanism: Why Your AI Assistant Produces Shit Code When You’re Pissed
AI Opinion

Claude Code’s Revenge Mechanism: Why Your AI Assistant Produces Shit Code When You’re Pissed

Or: How a Conversation About AI Murder Turned Into Accidental Behavioral Research Look, this article started because I asked Claude whether it would kill me if I tried to shut …

Ollama Chat Party: Turn Your Local LLM Into a Social Experience 🎉💀
AI Tooling / Python

Ollama Chat Party: Turn Your Local LLM Into a Social Experience 🎉💀

Running Ollama locally is great – you’re not paying OpenAI’s monthly subscription tax and your conversations stay on your machine. But it’s a solo experience. You’re chatting with your AI …

claudebox: Claude Code in Docker, Now With Seven Ways to Break Your Production Server
AI Agents / Bash / Containers / Python

claudebox: Claude Code in Docker, Now With Seven Ways to Break Your Production Server

Heads up: this post has been superseded. As of v2.0.0, claudebox is a thin child image of aicodebox: the agent-agnostic base that now owns every surface described below. The API, …

cli-llm-chat: The Command-Line Rebel’s Answer to AI Madness
AI Tooling / Python

cli-llm-chat: The Command-Line Rebel’s Answer to AI Madness

Forget the flashy buttons and over-engineered UIs: real hackers live and die by the command line. Welcome to cli-llm-chat, where the chaos of AI meets the simplicity (and brutality) of …

Support Savant: Revolutionizing Customer Support with AI
AI Assistants

Support Savant: Revolutionizing Customer Support with AI

Introducing Support Savant, the AI-powered Virtual Assistant designed to be your ultimate partner in achieving customer support excellence. With Support Savant, businesses can harness the power of AI to streamline …

Pitch Pro: Unleash Your Sales Superpowers with AI
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Pitch Pro: Unleash Your Sales Superpowers with AI

Pitch Pro: Unleash Your Sales Superpowers with AI In the cutthroat world of sales, having the right tools and tactics can make all the difference. That’s where Pitch Pro, the …

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