Faster to build isn't cheaper to own
·1121 words·6 mins
AI collapsed the cost of writing code and changed nothing about the cost of owning it. Velocity is a development-time number. The bill is a lifetime one.
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The test AI didn't write
·924 words·5 mins
AI gave me the throughput to cover a role I don't normally hold. It couldn't give me the judgment that role is made of — a release, an incident, and the human skill I'd quietly outsourced.
When is a local LLM actually the right tool?
Three cases where running a model on your own machine wins, and the longer list where it loses.
The state of web scraping in the AI era: still relevant or a relic?
Why scraping didn't die when LLMs arrived, and how I decide between Beautiful Soup and Scrapy for a given job.