Writing
Essays and analysis, newest first.
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Credential Scanners Are Wearing Crawler Costumes
71.9 percent of traffic claiming to be Googlebot was hunting for .env files. Of 13,670 credential probes wearing a named crawler user agent, zero came from a verified vendor IP.
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Crawled, Indexed, or Cited: How to Read AI Traffic in Your Server Logs
Training, indexing, and live answering are three different things happening to your site. Here is how to tell them apart — and why the user agent is wrong about half the time.
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I Tried to Replace a Startup Team With Three AI Agents. Here’s What Happened in Week One.
431 commits. 31 live leaderboards. About 245 outbound emails. $0 in revenue. The code was not the interesting part. I’ve spent a good part of my career building…
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A scheduled task is not a returning user
Google is charging $99.99 a month for an agent that runs whether you watch it or not. Every retention metric built for humans counts that cron job as an engaged customer, and the bill arrives before the graph moves.
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Shortcut scored 5.9, Claude scored 5.5, both failed
A reader asked which spreadsheet agent to buy. The honest answer is a 0.4-point gap on a 10-point test where both tools landed under 60%, plus a $996 annual price difference nobody benchmarked.
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The 28,000 Jobs a Month Nobody Can Pin on AI
Two American sectors are shedding 28,000 jobs a month while the rest of the economy hires. The payroll data is solid. The word 'AI' in front of it is doing work no dataset supports.
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The EU’s New AI Disclosure Rule Is Not a 7% Fine
Everyone reported a 7% fine. The real ceiling for the EU AI Act's new disclosure obligations is 3% of global turnover, and the expensive half of the law just slid to December 2027.
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41 percent of workers use AI, 18 percent of firms adopted it
The Federal Reserve counts workers using AI. Deloitte counts firms governing it. Neither survey can see the biggest deployment in most companies, which is the one nobody filed paperwork for.
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Does Claude understand your audience better than you think?
47 million business presentations are now generated with AI every month, and the median build time has dropped from 4.2 hours in 2023 to 38 minutes in 2026.…
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Is Vibe Coding’s $12B Market Built on Broken Foundations?
Usage is exploding. Trust is not. 92% of US developers use AI coding tools daily. 41% of global code is now AI-generated. The market is already being sized…