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October 23, 2026
7 min read
Opinion

Perplexity Is My Research Tool, Not My Chatbot

I stopped asking Perplexity to write things and started asking it to find things, and that's when it clicked.

October 23, 2026
8 min read
Opinion

Why I Reach for Claude When the Document Is Long and the Stakes Are Real

I have a rule now: if the thing I'm reading is longer than twenty pages, Claude gets the first pass, not ChatGPT.

October 23, 2026
5 min read
Opinion

Surfer Will Rank Your Article and Make It Sound Like a Robot

Surfer tells you exactly what to include to rank, and it works — I've watched articles climb after following its live score. The price is vo

October 23, 2026
8 min read
Opinion

The Midjourney Discord Tax Is Real, and I Paid It

Midjourney still makes the most painterly images I've seen from a prompt, and I'm not giving that up. But the Discord tax is real: every gen

October 23, 2026
7 min read
Opinion

Voice Cloning Is Too Good, and That's the Problem

ElevenLabs makes voices that are indistinguishable from the real thing, and I've used it to narrate things I'd never have recorded myself. T

October 23, 2026
8 min read
Opinion

Canva's AI Is Bolt-On, and That's Fine

People dump on Canva's AI features like they're the point. They aren't, and pretending they are misses why Canva wins.

October 22, 2026
5 min read
Opinion

Gemini's Auto Mode Is the Right Default and the Wrong Habit

Letting the app pick the model saves tokens, but it also hides what you're actually running.

October 22, 2026
5 min read
Opinion

500,000 Agentic PCs Shipped and Almost Nobody Noticed

AMD says over half a million Agentic PCs are already out there. The software hasn't caught up.

October 22, 2026
7 min read
Opinion

The Harvard Study Says AI Wrote More Code and Shipped Nothing. Read It Twice.

More lines, more pull requests, same shipped software. The bottleneck moved to review.

October 22, 2026
6 min read
Opinion

GitHub's Agent Sandbox Went GA and Finally Made 'Let It Run' Safe

Sandboxed agents that can't touch your machine change the calculus for letting them work unsupervised.