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Opus 4.7 is Terse
May 27, 2026
TL;DR Opus 4.7 got terse on me. Anthropic's release notes confirm it: more direct tone, less validation-forward phrasing, response length now calibrates to...

Thin Slices Stop /sdd-flow from Overflowing My Capacity
May 18, 2026
TL;DR One-shotting features with /sdd-flow works until you get ambitious with complicated projects and you juggle two or three in parallel. The fix is...

From One Agent to Many
April 16, 2026
TL;DR Agent coordination tools have gone from complex infrastructure to something you can set up in an afternoon. Projects like Superset, Cline Kanban, and...

Close Call, a Voice AI Sales Coach
April 15, 2026
TL;DR I built an open-source voice agent that lets salespeople practice tough calls against an AI customer. It runs on Pipecat + Gemini 2.5 Flash, costs...

Everything is Energy, Everything in Berlin is Beautiful
April 11, 2026
TL;DR Evil is the opposite of love, and it's winning. Not just in the Epstein files or the wars started on a whim, but in every moment we choose the couch...

Spec Driven Development Fans, You'll Love sdd-flow
April 2, 2026
TL;DR Built a Claude Code skill that forces research, spec, implementation, critical reviews and code review for one-shotting features. Used it to build...

Meet Redakt: Practical GDPR Compliance for AI Teams
March 30, 2026
TL;DR Telling employees "don't enter personal data into AI tools" doesn't work without giving them a way to comply. Redakt is an open-source PII anonymizer...

Meet Sift: A Knowledge Base for Everything That Isn't a Note
March 27, 2026
TL;DR Sift is a personal knowledge base I built over three or four months that ingests anything — URLs, PDFs, bookmarks, web pages, video and audio files —...

Agent: Do You Understand the Words Coming Out of My Mouth?
March 25, 2026
TL;DR Your website is probably invisible to AI answer engines like Perplexity. By adding a handful of static files (llms.txt, per-post markdown files, JSON...

Finding Meaning in Your Notes with CK Search
March 23, 2026
TL;DR CK Search adds local semantic search to any directory, with a built-in MCP server for AI agent integration. Semantic search overcomes the limits of...

From Folders to Knowledge Base: How I Made My Notes Work for Me
March 19, 2026
TL;DR I spent years meticulously building folder structures for my notes. First in OneNote, then in Obsidian. It felt productive and effective. It wasn't....

Feed the AI - Digitize Everything
March 16, 2026
Why I'm Feeding an AI Every Piece of My Work Life — and What It Actually Needs to Function TL;DR AI agents aren't limited by capability — they're limited by...

FolderTether: Obsidian Breaks Out of the Vault
March 14, 2026
TL;DR FolderTether is an Obsidian plugin that creates a bidirectional link between a note and any directory on your filesystem. From Obsidian, a single click...

The Notes Setup That Actually Works with AI
March 13, 2026
TL;DR A decade of notes locked in OneNote, then a switch to Markdown files I thought was about portability. It turned out to be about something bigger:...

Shadow AI and the Compliance Gap That Won't Close Itself
March 12, 2026
Every time an employee pastes a customer name into ChatGPT, runs a vendor contract through DeepL, or asks Copilot to summarize their inbox using a free or...

The Workplace Blind Spot
March 8, 2026
A few weeks ago, I published a post about automating my own role. I timed it deliberately — sharing it with colleagues before a casual lunch with management,...

AI's Social Trap
February 11, 2026
Source: The "Innovator's Dilemma" of our society by DocIsInDaHouse (Feb 11, 2026) Core Thesis The article applies Clayton Christensen's "Innovator's Dilemma"...

You Spent Your Whole Life Getting Good at the Wrong Thing
February 8, 2026
Original post: https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/you-spent-your-whole-life-getting by Alberto Romero (Feb 7, 2026) Core Thesis AI agents (Codex with...

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