Articles by vincent_s
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Kimi K3 is now live (kimi.com)

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GitHub Is Capping the AI Pull Request Flood (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Chinese Codex API Resellers Have a New Problem (vincentschmalbach.com)

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OpenAI Added 1M Users in a Day. Fable Is Still in Limbo (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Anthropic Moved the Fable Deadline Again (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Grok Is Back (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Muse Image and Muse Video (meta.com)

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The End of Claude Code Subscriptions (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Anthropic Changed the Sonnet 5 Chart After It Made Sonnet Look Bad (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Sonnet 5 Is Dead in the Water (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Anthropic Is Hitting a Wall (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Claude Code Just Got 5x More Expensive (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Claude Code Is Quietly Fingerprinting China-Linked API Routers (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Small Teams Will Ship More Software Than They Can Maintain (vincentschmalbach.com)

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AI Makes Bad Product Decisions Look Like Finished Software (vincentschmalbach.com)

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The AI Productivity Trap Is More Output (vincentschmalbach.com)

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If Software Gets 90 Percent Cheaper, Who Captures the Savings? (vincentschmalbach.com)

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The AI Coding Era Makes Boring Tests More Valuable (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Open Source Maintainers Need a Spam Filter for AI Labor (vincentschmalbach.com)

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The Junior Developer Problem Is Becoming a Senior Developer Problem (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Vibe Code Is Legacy Code Before It Ships (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Anthropic's AI Jobs Paper (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Anthropic Is Preparing for IPO and We Should Be Worried (vincentschmalbach.com)

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How China's Shadow AI API Market Works (vincentschmalbach.com)

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AI Will Not Make Everyone More Productive (vincentschmalbach.com)

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The End of Claude Code Automation (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Claude Code's Hidden Advisor Tool (vincentschmalbach.com)

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I Do Not Recommend Fastmail (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Software Development Is Becoming a Factory Job (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Is Opus 4.7 a Downgrade? (vincentschmalbach.com)

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No One Reads Your Upwork Proposals Anymore (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Google Search Is Broken (vincentschmalbach.com)

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OpenAI models answer an older prompt instead of the current one (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Grok Imagine API (x.ai)

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Making Money from What You Care About (vincentschmalbach.com)

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View source no longer makes a new request (masteringlaravel.io)

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Rent a Mac M4 Mini and Access It via SSH from Linux (vincentschmalbach.com)

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NATO's Rutte warns against a war on the scale of that seen by past generations (reuters.com)

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AI Exponentializes Your Tech Debt (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Breaking Out of the Codex Sandbox (vincentschmalbach.com)

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AI Is Changing Jobs. Who Benefits? (vincentschmalbach.com)

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AI Is Dumber on Mondays (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Who will feed AI when traffic dies? (vincentschmalbach.com)

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GPT-5 Pro (platform.openai.com)

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Software Development Costs: Why AI Hasn't Changed Prices (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Claude Code Is Having Its Cursor Moment (vincentschmalbach.com)

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AI is the new social media (vincentschmalbach.com)

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[flagged] TikTok Sold for $14B (cnbc.com)

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Only Experts Can Write Good Prompts (vincentschmalbach.com)

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ETFs Are Inflating the Everything Bubble (vincentschmalbach.com)

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First Home Guarantee – Housing Australia (housingaustralia.gov.au)

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GPT-5 Is the Best Coding Model in the World: Biggest Leap Since 3.5 Sonnet (vincentschmalbach.com)

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My LLMs Have Personalities and I Can't Unsee It (vincentschmalbach.com)

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The Ultra Plan (cursor.com)

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Cursor v1.0 (cursor.com)

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Is Q-Star the Next PageRank? What Google's Antitrust Trial Revealed (vincentschmalbach.com)

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In AI, $20/Month Is the New Free Tier (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Google and the Art of Weaponizing Privacy (vincentschmalbach.com)

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We're not writing code anymore. We're directing it. (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Coding with AI: The Limit Is No Longer Intelligence, but Cost (vincentschmalbach.com)

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I Used O3 in Cursor and Forgot to Give It Context: It Ate Up All My Credits (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Anthropic's Infrastructure Problem (vincentschmalbach.com)

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DeepL vs. LLMs for Translation (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Shaping the Future, One Prompt at a Time (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Ask HN: Trump's return affecting freelance work?

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Trump's Return and Its Effect on My Freelance Business (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Always Use Max Models in Cursor IDE (vincentschmalbach.com)

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AI Soft Skills: The New Differentiator for Language Models (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Search Will Rule the AI Era (vincentschmalbach.com)

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PHP is now the best choice for web based software (vincentschmalbach.com)

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The Best AI Model Doesn't Run on Nvidia Chips (vincentschmalbach.com)

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AI Coding Agents: The Self-Driving Cars of Software Development (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Cursor: When Pro-Developer Tools Chase the Magic App Creation Market (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Social Media Will Be Dead Within 10 Years (vincentschmalbach.com)

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We'll Soon Pay Premium for Human-Written Words (vincentschmalbach.com)

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China Releases GPT-4.5 Rival Ernie 4.5 and X1 at 1% the Cost (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Cursor IDE Problems Mount with Each Update (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Natural alternative to Ozempic brings results without side effects (newatlas.com)

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The Chatbot Monetization Problem: Can AI Chatbots Be as Profitable as Google? (vincentschmalbach.com)

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DeepSeek's AI Infrastructure Drives 545% Potential Returns (vincentschmalbach.com)

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GPT-4.5: Silicon Valley's Most Sophisticated Con Artist (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Claude and ChatGPT Bookmarklets (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Laravel 12: Changes Frustrating Long-Time Users (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Laravel vs. Django and Rails for SaaS Development (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Building a Successful Bootstrapped Company (vincentschmalbach.com)

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OpenAI's GPT-5 Bait and Switch (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Does Temperature 0 Guarantee Deterministic LLM Outputs? (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Google Quality Raters Guidelines Warns of Significant Scrolling on Recipe Blogs (seroundtable.com)

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You're Probably Using AI Reasoning Models Wrong (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Silicon Valley Started in Garages. AI Could Too – With State-Funded GPUs (vincentschmalbach.com)

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AI Isn't Cheating (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Cursor Is Running a Weaker Version of Claude 3.5 Sonnet (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Most "Investing" Is Just Speculation (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Turn Your Viral Moment into Real Business Value (vincentschmalbach.com)

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My product went viral on social media but all I got were these shitty users (andrewchen.substack.com)

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Building an AI-Friendly Codebase (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Pick Your Fights: A Pragmatic Approach to Coding with AI (vincentschmalbach.com)

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AI in 2025: Two Major Shifts (vincentschmalbach.com)

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DeepSeek and the Effects of GPU Export Controls (vincentschmalbach.com)

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UK government uses 'vibe check' on whether MPs will like policies (theguardian.com)