Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

Prompt Engineering for Alaskan Winters: Offline-First AI Tools That Work Without Internet
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Prompt Engineering for Alaskan Winters: Offline-First AI Tools That Work Without Internet

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...

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Building AI SaaS in 24 Hours: Wild Experiments with $0 Marketing Budgets
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Building AI SaaS in 24 Hours: Wild Experiments with $0 Marketing Budgets

I have a problem. Every time I get an idea for a tool I think is interesting, I want to build it immediately. Not plan it. Not validate it extensively....

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From Zero to MVP: 12-Hour Build Using Only Free-Tier LLMs in 2026
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From Zero to MVP: 12-Hour Build Using Only Free-Tier LLMs in 2026

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...

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AI Content for Programmatic Sites: Avoiding Google Penalties in 2026
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AI Content for Programmatic Sites: Avoiding Google Penalties in 2026

I've had pages deindexed. I've had AdSense applications rejected. I've watched a site go from 8,000 indexed pages to 4,000 in a single week — and then...

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Job Hunting in 2026: AI-Optimized Resumes and Portfolios That Actually Work
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Job Hunting in 2026: AI-Optimized Resumes and Portfolios That Actually Work

Nobody tells you this, but most resumes in 2026 are read by machines before they're read by humans.

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Programmatic SEO on a Shoestring: How I Indexed 10K Pages and Monetized with AI
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Programmatic SEO on a Shoestring: How I Indexed 10K Pages and Monetized with AI

Let me tell you about a project that went from idea to 8,000+ Google-indexed pages in under a month — running on a $5 server, built by one engineer...

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Chain-of-Thought vs. Agent Loops: Speed Tests on Real SaaS Features
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Chain-of-Thought vs. Agent Loops: Speed Tests on Real SaaS Features

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

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Switching from Cursor to VS Code + Claude: Productivity Before/After
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Switching from Cursor to VS Code + Claude: Productivity Before/After

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.

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Aurora Photography Meets AI: My Workflow for Capturing and Editing the Northern Lights in Alaska
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Aurora Photography Meets AI: My Workflow for Capturing and Editing the Northern Lights in Alaska

Last February I stood outside my cabin at 2 AM in minus thirty degrees, watching the sky do something that no monitor has ever accurately reproduced. The...

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Wildlife Photography Meets Computer Vision: Experiments from an Alaskan Cabin
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Wildlife Photography Meets Computer Vision: Experiments from an Alaskan Cabin

I have a trail camera problem. Specifically, I have fourteen trail cameras scattered across the woods around my cabin in Caswell Lakes, Alaska, and every...

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Making AI Chatbots Smarter with Retrieval-Augmented Generation
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Making AI Chatbots Smarter with Retrieval-Augmented Generation

In this insightful article, we delve into the innovative journey of developing a state-of-the-art financial advisor chatbot, powered by the synergy of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and OpenAI's GPT-4.

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Developing an AI-based product using GPT-3
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Developing an AI-based product using GPT-3

This article is about my experience creating an MVP for Stormynight.ai, an AI-based application that aims to eradicate writer's block from the face of the Earth. It talks about how the GPT-3 API helped relieve the problem. It also goes into detail about how this led to the idea of StormyNight.ai, an AI program that creates story ideas.

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Microservices as building blocks for AI
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Microservices as building blocks for AI

Some ideas about how microservices could be used to compliment and be a part of an AI neural network.

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