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ctrl+r #14: AI is inflating every metric (including your bill)
🧠 AI is inflating numbers
I was browsing skills repos and realized a SINGLE CLAUDE.md of 65 lines “from karpathy” pulled 155k GitHub stars in a few months 🤯. Something even more crazy : it isn’t actually from Karpathy. It’s just a t...
Running an AI workshop ? Build a LLM key minter first
While prepping my PyCon DE & PyData 2026 talk (slides), I wanted 150+ people to run an analytics agent against DuckDB. First plan was local inference, but even the smallest reasonable smart model is a 7GB download at minimum. No way that wo...
ctrl+r #13 : Agents don't sleep, but your infra (and brain) might need to
🧠 The compute crunch is real
Been watching GitHub struggle lately. Michael Driscoll posted about their service getting shredded by automated agents running 24/7. Cloud services weren’t built for this kind of constant hammering.
Tomasz...
ctrl+r #12: AI learning cost, workflow moats, skills security, and the CLI disappointment
Wait Mehdi, almost 2 months since the last ctrl+r?!
Travel, sickness, and (not to mention) a newborn got me deep into survival mode. Bear with me while I find my rhythm again. The good news: I’ve been experimenting non-stop, so this is a...
ctrl+r #11: IDEs are dead, Deep Fake is too easy
🧠 IDEs as we know them are dead
I’ve been using Cursor as my IDE, and I’ve realized that I barely use most of its features anymore—simply because I’m writing less code manually.
I think IDEs can afford to be much more lightweight when...
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