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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...

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

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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.”...

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...

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...

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...