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11 articlesCracking 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.
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...