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Cracking a 25-Year-Old Password with Claude Code

While cleaning up old files, I found a password-protected Word document from 1999. I had no memory of the password. Claude Code and I cracked it together.

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Building ownwords: A Synthesis Coding Case Study

What separates synthesis coding from vibe coding isn''t the tools — it''s the decisions. This technical case study walks through the architectural choices,...

· 13 min read

Why Synthesis Coding Still Writes Code in the Age of LLMs

The answer is not "just let the model do it" — and code matters more, not less, as AI gets dramatically better Last spring, my son Fitz and I had an aftern...

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Polyrepo Synthesis: Synthesis Coding Across Multiple Repositories with Claude Code in Visual Studio Code

I wrote this blog post for software engineers, architects, and technical leads. It is code-heavy and implementation-focused. This weekend I was working acr...

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The Power Playbook: Decoding Leadership Dynamics in OpenAI’s Executive Announcement

The Meta-Strategy: Controlling the Narrative In the high-stakes world of AI leadership, those who control the narrative control reality itself. A recent pr...

· 14 min read
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Why Prompt Engineering Is Legitimate Engineering: A Case for the Skeptics

As a CTO who has spent decades working with software engineers across organizations like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and now as President ...

· 12 min read
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The Frontier of AI: Reflections on my friend Richard Socher's Vision — The Man Who Invented Prompt Engineering on AI, AGI & Humanoids

Richard Socher, founder of you.com and the man who invented prompt engineering, discusses AI, AGI, and humanoid robots with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismai...

· 6 min read
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The Evolution of AI Reasoning: A Follow-up Analysis: OpenAI o1 vs. DeepSeek’s DeepThink R1

In my previous post from September 2024, I shared how three leading AI models — OpenAI's ChatGPT GPT-4o, Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Google's Gemini...

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Recommendation from Bryan McCann, co-founder & CTO of You.com

Rajiv was my mentor and advisor from the very start of my first-time founder journey as the CTO of you.com. He provided invaluable perspectives as my role ...

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Three AI Language Models, Three Contradictory Answers. Who Got it Correct and Why?

Last night, my 12-year-old son and I were engrossed in solving math puzzles on TED Ed via YouTube, sometimes collaboratively and sometimes competing with e...

· 12 min read
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The Evolution of Generative AI Platforms: How Large Language Models will Disrupt Business and Society

Large language model (LLM) powered platforms OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Bard, and You.com have captured the public's imagination recently with their abilit...

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