Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

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.

A Node.js engineer explains why single-agent AI systems fail at scale and builds a multi-agent orchestrator with smart routing to fix it.

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.

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.

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

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.

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...

I've been living on a homestead in Caswell Lakes, Alaska for a while now. And every single day, I run into problems that software should be solving but...

I turned 52 this year. I've been writing software since Reagan was president. I've survived more technology transitions than I can count — mainframes to...

I lost power for three days last January.

My neighbor Carl sells firewood.

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...

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...

I turned 40 in 2014. Obama was in office, Docker was barely a year old, and I was deep into a career trajectory that I thought was going exactly where it...

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.

Last month I shipped three digital products on Gumroad in a single weekend. Not garbage products — actual useful things that people are buying. A prompt...

AI Overviews crushed my reference content. Experience-based articles held. I rebuilt my SEO strategy around what LLMs can't replicate.

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

Let me tell you about a grizzly bear.