Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

Stop Hand-Rolling PDF Parsers: Build Intelligent Document Pipelines with LangExtract
AI Integration & Development
Stop Hand-Rolling PDF Parsers: Build Intelligent Document Pipelines with LangExtract

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

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Building an EPUB Viewer in One Night with Claude Code
AI Integration & Development
Building an EPUB Viewer in One Night with Claude Code

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

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Build a Python AI Agent in 50 Lines: Tools, Memory, and the Loop That Runs It All
AI Agents
Build a Python AI Agent in 50 Lines: Tools, Memory, and the Loop That Runs It All

Frameworks hide the loop. This tutorial builds a working Python AI agent in 50 lines, then adds a tool registry, memory, and multi-agent patterns.

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Cross-Promoting SaaS: How My Job Board Feeds AutoDetective Traffic
Business
Cross-Promoting SaaS: How My Job Board Feeds AutoDetective Traffic

Last month I was looking at my analytics for AutoDetective.ai and noticed something I wasn't expecting. A non-trivial chunk of referral traffic was coming...

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Cross-Pollinating Audiences: How a Job Board Feeds a Diagnostics Tool (and Vice Versa)
Business
Cross-Pollinating Audiences: How a Job Board Feeds a Diagnostics Tool (and Vice Versa)

Most developers build one product at a time and market it in isolation. I know because I did this for years and it's an incredibly inefficient way to...

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Copilot vs. Claude: 2026 Predictions and Hacks for Enterprise-Level Coding
AI
Copilot vs. Claude: 2026 Predictions and Hacks for Enterprise-Level Coding

Let me start with the take that will probably annoy people: GitHub Copilot is going to dominate enterprise development by mid-2026, and if you're building...

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The 2021 Indie Hacker Playbook Is Dead. Here's What Replaced It
Business
The 2021 Indie Hacker Playbook Is Dead. Here's What Replaced It

Consulting dropped to 15% of my revenue. Digital products, API services, and AI-amplified SaaS filled the gap. Here's the full breakdown.

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20,000 Pages in 14 Months: What Actually Works in Programmatic SEO (2026)
Business
20,000 Pages in 14 Months: What Actually Works in Programmatic SEO (2026)

I scaled a site from 800 to 20,000 indexed pages. Google punished the thin ones and rewarded the rest. Real traffic, revenue, and infrastructure costs inside.

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AI Diagnostics for Off-Grid Living: Solar Panel + Battery Health Checker
AI
AI Diagnostics for Off-Grid Living: Solar Panel + Battery Health Checker

Last February, in the dead of an Alaskan winter, my battery bank voltage dropped to 11.2V at 3 AM. The inverter alarm woke me up. It was -28°F outside...

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Claude Code Quality Drops: 6 Fixes That Actually Work (2026)
AI
Claude Code Quality Drops: 6 Fixes That Actually Work (2026)

Your Claude session started great and now it's writing junior-level code. Here's why it happens and 6 practitioner-tested fixes to get quality back.

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Agentic Coding: How I Let AI Agents Handle My Entire Book Launch Pipeline
AI
Agentic Coding: How I Let AI Agents Handle My Entire Book Launch Pipeline

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

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Stop Juggling Port Numbers: Portless Gives Your Dev Servers Named URLs
Modern Development Tools
Stop Juggling Port Numbers: Portless Gives Your Dev Servers Named URLs

Portless by Vercel Labs replaces localhost port numbers with stable named URLs. Here's how it works, who it's for, and why AI coding agents care about it.

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Avoiding Burnout While Chasing Revenue Goals
Career
Avoiding Burnout While Chasing Revenue Goals

I hit a wall in October 2024. Not a metaphorical wall — a real, physical, I-can't-get-out-of-bed wall. My hands were shaking from too much caffeine. I was...

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The Grizzly Mindset for Resilient Software Architecture
Software Engineering
The Grizzly Mindset for Resilient Software Architecture

I lost power for three days last January.

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Pivoting Careers in Tech: My Job Board for Burned-Out Engineers
Career
Pivoting Careers in Tech: My Job Board for Burned-Out Engineers

I built a job board because I kept getting the same email.

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Off-Grid Power Diagnostics: How I Extended Car AI Concepts to My Battery Bank
AI
Off-Grid Power Diagnostics: How I Extended Car AI Concepts to My Battery Bank

My cabin in Caswell Lakes, Alaska runs on solar panels and a battery bank. During the winter, when we get about five hours of usable daylight and...

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AI for Bear Safety: A Wildlife Risk Diagnostic Tool That Could Actually Save Lives
AI
AI for Bear Safety: A Wildlife Risk Diagnostic Tool That Could Actually Save Lives

I live with bears. Not metaphorically. Not in the cute "I saw a bear once at a national park" sense. I mean I walk to my truck in the morning and check...

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