Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

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.

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...

I woke up on January 1st, 2026, with a hangover and an idea. What if I spent the entire year running one small revenue experiment per week? Not building...

There's a particular kind of silence that happens at 9 PM in Caswell Lakes, Alaska in January. It's negative thirty outside. The aurora is doing something...

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

Let me be honest about the Amazon book sales first: they were meager.

I lost power for three days last January.

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.

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.

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...

My neighbor Carl sells firewood.

I've been building websites since the late 1990s. Back then, "passive income" meant building a site about digital cameras, stuffing it with affiliate...

Three years ago, I was sitting in a rental in Boise, staring at a terminal, and feeling absolutely nothing.

I almost didn't write this article.

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

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...

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

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

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...