Astra, Fable 5.1, Gemini 3.8: Three Releases, One Useful Test
September’s Astra, Fable 5.1, and Gemini 3.8 releases are real. Here is what was announced and one useful way to test them on your own work.
Your Competitor Just Rented You Compute: Inside the Anthropic-SpaceX Deal
xAI’s Colossus 2 just went live — 550,000 GPUs, one gigawatt of power, the first cluster of its kind on Earth. Then Anthropic announced they’re renting Colossus 1 from SpaceX. Here’s what that actually means.
Claude Opus 4.7 Just Dropped — Your $20 Tier Got Smarter This Morning
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.7 today, April 16, 2026. No fanfare event. No keynote. Just a point release that quietly moved the ceiling up again. If you’re already paying for Claude, you don’t need to do anything — you’re already using it. If you’re not, here’s why that changes the math again. What Actually Changed […]
One Person. One Quarter. Everything I Built With AI in Q1 2026.
In February, I posted what I’d built in a single month with AI tools. People thought it was impressive. That was one month. Here’s the full quarter. January through March 2026. One person. AI subscriptions under $300/month. No employees. No contractors. No outsourcing. What Shipped Websites and Content 3 complete webbooks published — 32 chapters […]
I Made Tech Predictions in 2025. Here’s the Q1 2026 Scorecard.
In August 2025, I wrote a piece called “The Machines Are Here.” Not a blog post about chatbots. A prediction — the kind that made people in my circle think I was being dramatic. The core claims: AI won’t just assist. It will replace entire workflows. Small towns aren’t ready. White-collar work restructures first. “Business […]
The Cheat Codes Are Out — April 2026 AI Update
I started this series in January with a simple idea: give away everything I know about using AI for business. No gatekeeping. No $400 markups on a $20 tool. Three months later, the tools have moved so fast that half of what I wrote in January is already underselling reality. Here’s where we are in […]
Set Up Claude AI in 15 Minutes: A No-BS Guide
There are a hundred AI tools vying for your attention right now. Most of them want your money before you understand what they do. Here’s a guide that skips the marketing and gets you working with one of the best ones — Claude, made by Anthropic — in about 15 minutes. Full disclosure: We use […]
Sign Up for Claude or You’re Already Falling Behind
Sign up for Claude or you’re already falling behind. I’m serious. Agentic AI Is Nothing Like You Think It isn’t a repeating algorithm. It isn’t a hallucinating chatbot. It isn’t a gimmick. It’s your new assistant. What I Built in 4 Hours Today I just spent one working session with Claude building: A complete onboarding […]
I Did It: How I Replicated Myself with AI
Years ago, when I was a Service Director managing IT teams, I made a promise to myself. “One day, I’m going to replicate a team of me and build my own IT company.” People nodded politely. Some laughed. The math didn’t work — you can’t clone yourself, and hiring ten people costs ten salaries. The […]
I Installed an AI Brain on My Computer in 20 Minutes
I Installed an AI Brain on My Computer in 20 Minutes I’ve been planning a local AI infrastructure project for months. Researching models, benchmarking hardware, writing strategy documents. The whole enterprise planning exercise. Then I sat down one afternoon and just… did it. Twenty minutes later, I had a 7-billion-parameter language model running on my […]