The '95% AI Failure' Headlines: How Nuanced Research Became Sensational News 5 minute read

You’ve probably seen the headlines from Fortune, Yahoo Finance, and others: “MIT Study Shows 95% of AI Pilots Fail.” It’s been making rounds across tech media, spooking investors, and reinforcing every AI skeptic’s worldview. But when you dig into the actual research from MIT’s NANDA project, a different story emerges—one that reveals more about sensationalist journalism than AI failure rates.

When you’re reading something (yes, even this post), you should always question the sources. Who is saying what? What is their agenda? For example, if an oil company is releasing their research on climate impact, you should be skeptical, right?

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Full Page Screenshots in Web Browsers 1 minute read

This is not a typical post, but I never knew about this feature and it’s super useful. Have you ever taken multiple screenshots of a long web page? Have you ever printed a web page to pdf so you could share it with someone? Have you ever downloaded an extension to take a full-page screenshot? Well aparently web browsers offer various ways to capture full-page screenshots, allowing you to save entire web pages including content that extends beyond the visible screen area. Without having to jump through hoops.

Google Chrome (worst)

Chrome provides a hidden full-page screenshot feature within its Developer... read more

Battle of the IDEs*! 13 minute read

When ChatGPT first came out, one of the first things I did with it was ask it to write me code. This was two years ago and a lot has changed. First it was extensions in VS Code, then it was good extensions in VS Code, then it was GitHub’s Copilot, Cursor, and now Kiro. We are going to cover my impressions of these tools in this article but before we do, I’d like to suggest something for new and junior developers. These tools can accelerate what you do, but you understanding what they do, why it is good, why... read more