Posted on Fri 01 October 2027 in GenAI • Tagged with GenAI, LLM, AI-product, startups, opinion
People use "AI" to mean a lot of different things in the same breath — GPT-4 is "AI," ChatGPT is "AI," a company's customer support bot built on top of both is also "AI." But these are three genuinely different things, sitting at different layers …
Posted on Sun 04 October 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with GenAI, LLM, AI-literacy, career, opinion
A lot of career advice around GenAI right now focuses on learning to build with AI — prompt engineering, RAG, agents, fine-tuning. That's valuable, and it's most of what this blog covers too. But I've started noticing a quieter, less talked-about skill gap that might matter even …
Posted on Fri 02 October 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with GenAI, LLM, context-engineering, prompt-engineering, opinion
A few months ago I wrote about whether prompt engineering was a dying skill, and landed on "it's not dying, it's getting absorbed into something bigger." Since then, I keep running into a new term that feels like exactly that "something bigger" showing up with a …
Posted on Fri 25 September 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with GenAI, LLM, benchmarks, model-evaluation, opinion
Every new model release comes with a wall of benchmark charts — MMLU, HumanEval, GPQA, some new benchmark nobody had heard of six months ago — all showing the new model beating the old one by a few percentage points. And yet, plenty of people who actually use …
Posted on Sat 19 September 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with GenAI, AI-agents, opinion, product-trends, software
Open almost any app update log right now and there's a good chance you'll see some version of "meet your new AI assistant" tucked in there. Email clients, project management tools, spreadsheets, note-taking apps, even camera apps — the built-in AI agent has become the default feature …
Posted on Wed 16 September 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with GenAI, LLM, vibe-coding, career, opinion
"Vibe coding" started as a half-joking term for a very specific feeling: describing what you want in plain English, letting an AI generate the code, and just going with whatever "feels right" without deeply understanding every line. It quickly turned into a meme — the punchline being …
Posted on Fri 11 September 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with GenAI, LLM, coding-assistants, career, opinion
Every developer who came up before 2023 has the same memory: copy a stack trace, paste it into Google, land on a Stack Overflow answer, copy that code back into the project, and move on — sometimes without fully understanding why the fix worked. It was a …
Posted on Thu 10 September 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with GenAI, LLM, coding-assistants, career, opinion
This question hits close to home for me. I'm a beginner, learning GenAI while also trying to grow as a developer, and I keep seeing the same headline everywhere: AI coding assistants are writing more and more production code, and juniors are the ones supposedly getting …
Posted on Sat 05 September 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with GenAI, LLM, prompt-engineering, model-scaling, opinion
Every few months there's a new "frontier model" release with bigger benchmarks, more parameters, longer context windows. And every few months, right alongside it, someone shows a clever prompting technique that gets a much smaller, cheaper model to match or beat a bigger one on the …
Posted on Thu 03 September 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with GenAI, LLM, AI-wrappers, opinion, startups
Spend five minutes on any tech forum and you'll find someone dismissing a new AI product as "just a wrapper around GPT/Claude." It's become the go-to insult in GenAI circles — implying the product has no real technology, no moat, nothing defensible. Just a thin UI …