Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

Rome's road network, provincial governance, and currency debasement mirror the same failures we build into software. The parallels are uncomfortable.

Your AI writes fast. It also writes JWT bugs, hardcoded secrets, and SQL injection. Here's what the scanners actually found.

AI delivery pipelines need governance for accountability and compliance. Add traceability, approval gates, and audit trails without crushing velocity.

After 40+ years in software, here are the engineering skills AI has devalued and the ones worth doubling down on right now.

I built an AI chatbot that diagnoses car problems and generates repair content. Here's what I learned about trust, accuracy, and domain-specific AI.

80+ books, 70 audiobooks, one AI-assisted pipeline. Here's why the "AI content is slop" argument confuses the tool with the operator.

Five-layer guardrail architecture for AI document extraction pipelines that fabricate data instead of failing visibly.

Six months of tracked hours and output reveal where AI tooling actually boosts solo developer productivity and where it quietly costs you time.

The agent pattern that made Cursor powerful is moving into docs, spreadsheets, and email. The engineering challenges are harder than you think.

A hands-on walkthrough of fine-tuning Mistral-7B on personal blog posts using LoRA on an NVIDIA DGX Spark — from training data to local deployment, in one evening.

Low-code platforms promised to democratize software development. AI-augmented engineering just made that promise obsolete — and cheaper.

LangExtract brings schema enforcement, source grounding, and multi-pass extraction to any LLM. Here's how to build a real PDF intelligence pipeline.

I built an open-source EPUB reader in one night using Claude Code — drag, drop, read, and analyze your book before it goes live.

Estimating AI project costs is harder than it looks. Learn why token costs compound, what self-hosting really costs, and how to build budgets that hold up.

I've spent more on AI tools than groceries in the last 18 months. In Alaska, that's a lot of milk. Here's what actually earned its keep — and what was a waste.

A hands-on first look at gws, Google's new Workspace CLI. Covers Windows setup gotchas, MCP server integration with Claude Code, and practical agentic workflow patterns for Drive, Gmail, and Calendar.