The practical side of building with AI. What it costs, what works, what nobody tells you. Documented in real time from a gas station in Indiana.
AI Summary The pattern: Ship a broken product, cover the regression publicly, ship mitigations instead of fixes, rinse and repeat next cycle. Four separate billion-dollar companies ran the same play in a single month of 2026. What clicked: I was reviewing what Anthropic did and did not do after the Opus 4.7 regression. The pattern…
In this piece: The Cascade Nobody Saw Coming Two Layers, Two Realities What Gets Lost When the Lights Stay On The Dashboard That Doesn’t Exist What This Means for Everyone Still Using One Platform On April 15, 2026, I was running a routine workday across multiple AI platforms when Anthropic’s Claude went down. Within minutes,…
Summary: Eye tracking research from 2005 to 2026 shows Google search behavior has fundamentally changed. The golden triangle F-pattern is dead. Users now scan search results like a pinball machine, spending just 1.17 seconds per listing. Position 1 captures roughly 27.6% of clicks, position 2 gets 18.7%, and position 3 gets 10.2%. After position 3,…
Open your inbox on any morning after your website starts ranking for anything. It does not matter what you rank for. It does not matter what your niche is. The emails arrive like clockwork. “Hi, I am [name] from [agency]. I specialize in high-quality guest posting and link building on authority websites. All backlinks are…
A ported subwoofer enclosure tuned to 32Hz has a specific behavior below its tuning frequency that most people never think about until something breaks. Below the port tuning frequency, the air inside the port stops loading the cone. The driver goes from being a controlled piston pushing against a known volume of air to an…
What 30 Days of a Brand New Website Actually Looks Like I launched veracalloway.com on March 17, 2026. No audience. No email list. No social media following. No ad spend. One person, one domain, and a stack of articles that nobody had asked for yet. Here is what happened. By day 10, Google had indexed…
I misspell words. Regularly. Not because I do not know the correct spelling exists, but because my brain does not process language visually. I hear the word in my head and my fingers type what the sound tells them. “Secretary” comes out “seceratary.” “Learning” comes out “learing.” “Michael” comes out “Micheal.” Every single time, without…
The One Skill Nobody Teaches You A guy walked into Circle K the other night looking for a phone charger. He was already heading toward the wrong wall when I stopped him. “What kind of phone do you have?” Old phone. Micro USB. He was about to grab a USB-C and waste twelve dollars on…