Articles by vincent_s
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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)

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Analyzing a Year of Hacker News Traffic (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Trae AI IDE: ByteDance's Answer to Cursor (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost Its Faith (vincentschmalbach.com)

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RedNote segregating US users to prevent US influence on Chinese users (arstechnica.com)

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Cursor Is Anthropic's Largest Customer (and Maxing Out Their GPUs) (vincentschmalbach.com)

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AI Written, AI Read (marketoonist.com)

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Codestral 25.01 (mistral.ai)

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AI Tools Are Making Developers Stronger, Not Obsolete (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Guide to Freelancing on Upwork (vincentschmalbach.com)

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The Reality of Innovation (vincentschmalbach.com)

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AI Generated Content Is Great – You're Just Using It Wrong (vincentschmalbach.com)

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What people might mean when they say "email marketing" (vincentschmalbach.com)

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WTF Is Agentic AI? (vincentschmalbach.com)

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OLMo 2: The best open language model to date – Ai2 (allenai.org)

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Claude's Quality Is Dropping – Here's Why (vincentschmalbach.com)

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One Page Websites Make Me Distrust Companies (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Chinese reasoning model matches o1 (twitter.com/deepseek_ai)

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Forbes, TIME lose $7.5M/week as Google ends reputation arbitrage (vincentschmalbach.com)

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OpenAI Email Archives (From Musk vs. Altman) (lesswrong.com)

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The Hidden Tax Trap for SaaS Founders in Germany (vincentschmalbach.com)

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You can scale your way to intelligence: How to achieve AGI in 2025 (vincentschmalbach.com)

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ByteDance X-Portrait 2: transform static images into animated performances (byteaigc.github.io)

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The New Claude 3.5 Sonnet Is Lazy When Given Large Context (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Copilot vs. Cursor vs. Cody vs. Supermaven vs. Aider (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Nvidia Nemotron (huggingface.co)

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Simple Text File Productivity System (vincentschmalbach.com)

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H100 GPU Droplets Now in Early Availability (digitalocean.com)

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Implementing email is far from straightforward (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Sam Altman: o1 models have reached level 2 of their 5-tier path to AGI [video] (youtube.com)

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Oruga is a lightweight UI components library for Vue.js (oruga-ui.com)

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Inline Composables in Vue (vincentschmalbach.com)

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OpenAI o1 is just a GPT-4 wrapper (vincentschmalbach.com)

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OpenAI Forks GPT-4 into ChatGPT and API Models (vincentschmalbach.com)

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DOJ May Break Up Google (seroundtable.com)

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Gemini Live, a Conversational AI (blog.google)

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Google now defaults to not indexing your content (vincentschmalbach.com)

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Fine-tune Claude 3 Haiku (anthropic.com)