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A Photoshop Clone From Public Specs: What Still Protects You
Software Development
· 4 min read

A Photoshop Clone From Public Specs: What Still Protects You

PhotoCraft rebuilds Photoshop from public specs and Naval calls models the last software moat. What stays yours when your product can be re-implemented.

PhotoCraft Photoshop Naval Ravikant
West Monroe Built 8 Tools Instead of Buying Them
Software Development
· 4 min read

West Monroe Built 8 Tools Instead of Buying Them

West Monroe avoided over $300,000 a year by building with ChatGPT and Codex what it would have bought. The saving holds because every tool has a review date.

West Monroe build vs buy SaaS
Boris Cherny Used Lean to Verify the Claude Agent SDK
Software Development
· 5 min read

Boris Cherny Used Lean to Verify the Claude Agent SDK

Boris Cherny modeled the Claude Agent SDK in Lean with Opus 5.5, not knowing the language: two short prompts produced 16 PRs fixing bugs and race conditions.

Claude Agent SDK Lean TLA+
Jev returns typed decisions and charges nothing for output
Software Development
· 4 min read

Jev returns typed decisions and charges nothing for output

TypeSafe shipped Jev, a model that returns typed decisions with calibrated probability instead of text. Vercel measured it 5 to 18x faster than Luna 5.6.

Jev TypeSafe AI Diogo Almeida
Anthropic's threat report: your AI API key is the loot
Software Development
· 4 min read

Anthropic's threat report: your AI API key is the loot

Anthropic's September 2026 misuse report shows stolen AI API keys are now a criminal product. Whoever takes yours gets loot, free compute and cover.

Anthropic AI security API keys
Alex Finn's 1.5TB Mac Studio Bet Gets the Bottleneck Wrong
Software Development
· 6 min read

Alex Finn's 1.5TB Mac Studio Bet Gets the Bottleneck Wrong

Alex Finn predicts 1.5TB Mac Studios in 2 years for local frontier AI. Colibrì already ran a 744B model on 25GB with no GPU. Memory was never the limit.

Apple M7 Ultra Mac Studio local AI
Colibrì Ran a 744B Parameter Model with No GPU
Software Development
· 6 min read

Colibrì Ran a 744B Parameter Model with No GPU

Colibrì runs GLM-5.2, a 744-billion-parameter model, on a GPU-less laptop with 25GB of RAM. It works. One token every 10-20 seconds is not production.

colibrì GLM-5.2 Mixture of Experts
The hidden cost of AI coding is review, not writing
Software Development
· 6 min read

The hidden cost of AI coding is review, not writing

Business Insider calls it workplace paralysis. The hidden cost of AI coding isn't the AI. It's that code now ships faster than any human can review or own it.

AI coding code review cognitive debt
An AI Skill Isn't a Prompt. It's Code With Your Keys.
Software Development
· 5 min read

An AI Skill Isn't a Prompt. It's Code With Your Keys.

26% of public skills have vulnerabilities and over 5% are malicious. NVIDIA shipped a scanner. Why vetting a skill is now part of what you deliver to a client.

AI security AI agents skills

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