Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

I almost killed myself with a roof beam.

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...

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...

Let me tell you about a grizzly bear.

My cabin in Caswell Lakes runs on a solar panel array and a battery bank. In the summer, I have more power than I know what to do with — twenty hours of...

I broke three headlamps last winter before I figured out what was actually going wrong.

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...

Last October I got turned around on a ridge above the Little Susitna River. Not dangerously lost — I knew roughly where I was — but the game trail I'd...

At 6 AM on a Saturday, I made the kind of decision that only sounds reasonable when you're on your second pot of coffee and the temperature outside is...

My neighbor Carl sells firewood.

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...

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

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

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'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.

I spent eighteen years building systems for companies with names you'd recognize. Fortune 500 companies with six-figure infrastructure budgets, compliance...

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...

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...

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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