Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

I've spent more money on AI tools in the last eighteen months than I've spent on groceries. And I live in Alaska, where a gallon of milk costs about six...

It was a Tuesday morning. I was drinking coffee and watching moose tracks fill with fresh snow outside my cabin window when my phone started buzzing. The...

I spent two weeks throwing the hardest problems I could find at OpenAI's o1 and DeepSeek's R1. Not toy benchmarks. Not "write me a poem about a cat." I'm...

I was standing in my shop last November, staring at a piece of walnut I'd been saving for two years, trying to figure out how to turn a vague idea in my...

If you've spent any serious time building with Claude's API, you've noticed the pattern. Mornings on the West Coast? Snappy. Sub-two-second responses on...

I haven't opened IntelliJ in six months. I haven't touched WebStorm since October. The last time I launched a full-fat IDE with a project wizard, a...

Most people hear "homesteading in Alaska" and picture some guy with an axe and a flannel shirt who has never touched a computer. And honestly, some days...

I've been building SaaS features two different ways lately, and the performance gap between them is wider than I expected.

Last month I ran a batch classification job through three different models: GPT-4o-mini, Gemini 2.0 Flash, and Claude 3.5 Haiku. Same prompts, same data...

I built AutoDetective.ai to help people diagnose car problems. Type in your symptoms — weird noise from the engine, check engine light, rough idle — and...

Last January, a snowstorm knocked out my internet for four days. Not four hours — four days. The satellite dish on the roof of my cabin in Caswell Lakes...

Last month, a developer I mentor showed me an architecture diagram that Claude had generated for his team's new microservices migration. It was beautiful....

I used to spend two hours every morning reviewing pull requests. Coffee in hand, cabin quiet except for the woodstove popping, just grinding through diffs...

I used Cursor for about four months. I was a paying customer. I evangelized it to friends. I thought it was the future of how we'd write software.

I like GitHub Copilot. I genuinely do. It saves me time every single day. But there are moments — and they happen more often than I'd like to admit —...

I wanted to see if it was possible to build something genuinely useful — not a toy, not a demo, an actual tool someone would pay for — using nothing but...

Last Tuesday at 11 PM, I was staring at a bug report from a user of my AutoDetective.ai site. The report said "the results page looks broken on mobile."...

I use Claude every day. Claude Code is my primary development tool. I built a job classifier with Claude Haiku that processes hundreds of job listings...

Last Tuesday I was sitting in my cabin in Caswell Lakes, Alaska, watching a founder friend struggle over Zoom. He had a Rails app deployed on Heroku, a...

I published a technical book about training large language models. Not a pamphlet — a real book with working code examples, architecture diagrams, and...