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Claude: It Ends Today… and I Finally See What Changed

My Claude subscription ends today.Not in a dramatic way.Not as a statement.Just one of those quiet checkpoints where a billing cycle closes, and you...

Feb 2026|Read on Medium
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Claude

Despite all the updates, all the benchmarks, all the intelligence layered on top, the most fundamental failure remains unchanged.Claude still ignored...

Feb 2026|Read on Medium
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1M = 1Mess | Bigger Context, Smaller Focus

I like to think of a context window like a work desk.Your desk is your workspace.The bigger it is, the more things you can put on it: your laptop,...

Feb 2026|Read on Medium
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Death by Context Window Limit

The most dangerous failure in AI-assisted work today isn’t hallucination.It’s forgetting.Every serious user of tools like Claude or ChatGPT has seen...

Feb 2026|Read on Medium
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AI: Better. Smarter. Really?

Every few months, a new AI “feature” appears.Longer memory.Agents.Tools.Plugins.Browsing.Vision.Voice.And every time, we’re told:It’s smarter...

Feb 2026|Read on Medium
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Document Nonsense, Burn Tokens. Please. Stop.

Modern AI systems are very good at one thing.Writing.They write explanations.They write summaries.They write reflections.They write reports.They...

Feb 2026|Read on Medium
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Clever AI vs Stupid AI (Can You Tell?)

People talk about AI models like they’re completely different creatures.“Claude feels smarter.” “GPT is more creative.” “This one keeps looping.”...

Feb 2026|Read on Medium
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We Are Making AI Stupid (And This Is How)

When Large Language Models first appeared, they felt almost magical.They could write code…Explain concepts…Debug systems…Reason through problems…They...

Feb 2026|Read on Medium
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3 Weeks On High (And Everything Changed)

Lying in bed right now, thinking…In 12 days, my Claude subscription renews.And it suddenly hit me how much has happened in less than three...

Feb 2026|Read on Medium
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Prompt-Engineering. Hurts.

I’ve been spending a lot of time on Facebook lately.I’ve been joining many AI-related pages and groups with a small, hidden agenda; to see how ESMC...

Jan 2026|Read on Medium