Articles by Grizzly Peak Software
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.
Read ArticleCopilot 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...
Read Article52-Week Indie Challenge: One Revenue Experiment Per Week
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...
Read ArticleBuilding Community in Remote Alaska: Online and In Real Life
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...
Read ArticleLLMs Ate My Organic Traffic: An SEO Survival Guide for 2026
AI Overviews crushed my reference content. Experience-based articles held. I rebuilt my SEO strategy around what LLMs can't replicate.
Read ArticleThe Hidden Revenue Streams in Tech Writing: From Amazon Books to Affiliate Empires
Let me be honest about the Amazon book sales first: they were meager.
Read ArticleThe Grizzly Mindset for Resilient Software Architecture
I lost power for three days last January.
Read ArticleSwitching from Cursor to VS Code + Claude: Productivity Before/After
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.
Read ArticleWhy Estimating AI Project Costs Is Still a Mess in 2026 (And How to Get It Right)
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.
Read Article10 Prompts That Turn Claude into a Full-Stack Gumroad Factory Agent
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...
Read ArticleHomesteading Side Hustles: From Woodworking to Digital Products
My neighbor Carl sells firewood.
Read ArticleLow-Effort Passive Income: AI-Generated Niche Sites (An Honest Assessment)
I've been building websites since the late 1990s. Back then, "passive income" meant building a site about digital cameras, stuffing it with affiliate...
Read ArticleHomesteading as Burnout Therapy: Building Cabins & Code
Three years ago, I was sitting in a rental in Boise, staring at a terminal, and feeling absolutely nothing.
Read ArticleMental Health Tools for Devs: Apps and Habits That Actually Work
I almost didn't write this article.
Read ArticleChain-of-Thought vs. Agent Loops: Speed Tests on Real SaaS Features
I've been building SaaS features two different ways lately, and the performance gap between them is wider than I expected.
Read ArticleProgrammatic SEO on a Shoestring: How I Indexed 10K Pages and Monetized with AI
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...
Read ArticleJob Hunting in 2026: AI-Optimized Resumes and Portfolios That Actually Work
Nobody tells you this, but most resumes in 2026 are read by machines before they're read by humans.
Read ArticleThe 50+ Dev's Guide to Learning New LLMs Without Overwhelm
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...
Read ArticlePivoting Careers in Tech: My Job Board for Burned-Out Engineers
I built a job board because I kept getting the same email.
Read Article24-Hour SaaS Challenge: AI-Powered Cabin Maintenance Tracker
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...
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