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We invested two months in training entry-level tire fitters. Some couldn't afford to finish. Others were recruited by competitors as service-station managers. Eventually, we realised that more training wasn't necessarily better.
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An independent researcher used Claude Code, Codex, and NASA’s archived telescope data to identify a possible exoplanet 116 light-years away. Now the discovery faces a rather inconvenient test: reality. Somewhere, approxi
Read ->What if an AI coding agent helped discover a planet that astronomers had missed for seven years? And what if NASA actually agreed to investigate? That's exactly what's happening. Independent researcher Pavel Rabtsevich u
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Target's pregnancy prediction algorithm became legendary after a teenager received baby-product coupons before her father knew she was pregnant. I later met someone who said she'd worked on the model and asked one question.
Read ->"We love your product!" "The team is really excited!" "Just waiting for final approval." "We should have everything signed next week." Three months later... Still closing. Any day now. Founders, drop a ❤️ if this feels p
Watch and read notes ->Spider-Man 2's web-swinging mechanics are now running inside GTA 5. And AI coding agents helped make it possible. Meet Web of Los Santos, a GTA V mod that brings Spider-Man 2-inspired movement into Los Santos. Web-swingi
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I think 2026 may be remembered as the year we finally started questioning one of the strangest assumptions in the software industry: That you can put your intellectual property on somebody else’s computer and continue co
Read ->A leading commercial tire distributor was losing money despite owning most of its market. The salespeople earned the biggest commissions, while the underpaid customer-service team did most of the selling.
A leading tire distributor in Belarus operated its warehouses, service stations and headquarters through one company. We redesigned the structure to reduce the risk of one disruption affecting the entire network.
We spent years implementing Oracle, but employees still needed the old accounting system. Then I moved to another company in the group and tried the opposite approach.
Belochka, Kremlin Salad, Tenderness, Kiss Salad... This simple garlic cheese salad had dozens of names but always appeared on our family holiday table.
My father used to make these simple sausage pancakes on Saturday mornings. Thick slices of Doktorskaya sausage, garlic, egg batter and a little butter.
Well, this is going to upset some people. Linus Torvalds has published a series of Linux kernel patches written with Claude Code. Yes, that Linus Torvalds. The man who created Linux, maintains its kernel, and has spent d
How a money-back guarantee helped us sell an unfamiliar tire brand in a market where everybody assumed Chinese meant cheap.
How we made expensive commercial tires easier to sell by changing the unit of value, and eventually turned tire ownership into a service.
My API key has exactly $0.00 in credits. But does that stop him from approaching the biggest AI models on the planet? Absolutely not. OpenAI. Anthropic Claude. Google Gemini. Three AI giants. One broke little API key. An
What if AI could help humans live to 150? Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, believes artificial intelligence could accelerate medical research so dramatically that human lifespans might double within the next decade. His r
What if AI could generate an entire world while you're exploring it? Not a video. Not a traditional game. An interactive environment that responds to your actions in real time. Meet Odyssey-3, a new AI world model that g
My son and I made naturally fermented ginger beer using fresh ginger, sugar and water. Five days for the starter, another day for carbonation, and one surprisingly good spicy experiment.
What if you could turn almost any PC game into something completely different using AI? And what if Claude Code could handle the modding process for you? Meet Universal Modder, an open-source collection of AI agent skill
Three tablespoons of oats, one egg, a little milk, melted cheese and cherry jam. My surprisingly good breakfast recipe, complete with an unnecessary airborne pancake manoeuvre.
Our premium tire-service network had a problem: budget customers assumed it was too expensive to visit. So I created two additional brands, including one deliberately designed to look cheap.
We built a loyalty program for long-haul truck drivers, offering tools, blankets and automotive accessories. Then we added plush toys and discovered what really motivated our customers.
Y Combinator published 22 essential startup rules in 2017. Most sound obvious. Here are five that remain particularly easy to ignore and why they matter.
Every few days, someone on the internet announces that another profession has officially become obsolete. Programmers? Finished. Designers? Pointless. Writers? Extinct. If you’re not running 20 AI agents simultaneously,
OpenAI released hundreds of AI-generated mathematical results. Anthropic helped overturn decades-old complexity conjectures. The bigger question is what happens when machines produce discoveries faster than humans can un
A Ukrainian flour producer wanted better margins without major investment. We turned ordinary baking mixes into colourful glass bottles, built a consumer brand, and discovered an unexpected opportunity in export markets.
Twenty years ago, we gave budget vodka bottles unique numbers and fictional biographies delivered by SMS. Then I met a customer who believed one imaginary bottling-line worker made better vodka.
Watch my SKYFLY video and read practical notes on the reported 40-agent workflow, 45 million tokens, browser architecture and checks that matter beyond a demo.
I analyzed 7,740 AI startups across 20 use cases to see where funding is growing, from voice agents and robotics to Legal AI and mega-rounds.
My practical AI agent workflow in 2026: orchestrator agents, 20–40 subagents, long-running sessions, taste gates, automation and why AI-native work keeps changing.
I have absolutely no idea why someone made this. But I'm incredibly glad it exists. Someone turned the concept of a web crawler into an actual digital spider. A glowing, eight-legged creature crawling across text, links,
Remember when phones had buttons, batteries lasted forever, and Snake was peak entertainment? Well, someone just brought Claude AI to a Nokia from 2007. Developer Emir Karşıyakalı created an open-source AI chat client fo
I was watching Claude Code coordinate its army of AI agents. And suddenly, things got a little terrifying. The task? Working with 60 videos simultaneously. Claude decided that the most efficient way for me to review the
How reusable flour packaging became part of the value proposition, helping a Ukrainian exporter differentiate a commodity without changing the flour.
Giving every developer an AI agent won’t fix a broken software development lifecycle. You need to redesign the entire SDLC, from tickets and documentation to CI/CD, QA, and team rules. Imagine you own a restaurant. You’v
I’ve been following the AI employment debate for a while, partly because I’ve invested in several AI-native companies and spend a lot of time thinking about how they operate. And I find both popular narratives increasing
