Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

Claude Artifacts vs. Copilot Workspace: Which Wins for Rapid Prototyping in 2026?
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Claude Artifacts vs. Copilot Workspace: Which Wins for Rapid Prototyping in 2026?

Last Tuesday at 11 PM, I had an idea for a small tool — a dashboard that pulls job posting stats from my Grizzly Peak Software job board and shows hiring...

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o1 Pro Mode s Massive Context Window: Building 50k-Token Enterprise Specs Without Crashing
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o1 Pro Mode s Massive Context Window: Building 50k-Token Enterprise Specs Without Crashing

Last month I tried to feed an entire microservices architecture spec into GPT-4. The spec was about 38,000 tokens — not even that big by enterprise...

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Micro-SaaS Ideas for Fitness-Focused Devs: Building a Workout Log with an AI Coach
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Micro-SaaS Ideas for Fitness-Focused Devs: Building a Workout Log with an AI Coach

I've been lifting weights for almost 30 years. Not competitively — just consistently. Three to four days a week, every week, through career changes...

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Building AI SaaS in 24 Hours: Wild Experiments with $0 Marketing Budgets
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Building AI SaaS in 24 Hours: Wild Experiments with $0 Marketing Budgets

I have a problem. Every time I get an idea for a tool I think is interesting, I want to build it immediately. Not plan it. Not validate it extensively....

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AI-Powered Side Hustles for the Over-50 Dev: Lessons from 30+ Years in Code
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AI-Powered Side Hustles for the Over-50 Dev: Lessons from 30+ Years in Code

There's a narrative in tech that experience is a liability. That the industry belongs to 25-year-olds grinding 80-hour weeks on energy drinks and novelty....

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Multimodal AI Wins: Using Vision Models to Debug UI Screenshots Automatically
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Multimodal AI Wins: Using Vision Models to Debug UI Screenshots Automatically

Last Tuesday at 11 PM, I was staring at a bug report from a user of my AutoDetective.ai site. The report said "the results page looks broken on mobile."...

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Prompt Engineering for Alaskan Winters: Offline-First AI Tools That Work Without Internet
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Prompt Engineering for Alaskan Winters: Offline-First AI Tools That Work Without Internet

Last January, a snowstorm knocked out my internet for four days. Not four hours — four days. The satellite dish on the roof of my cabin in Caswell Lakes...

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Coding by Northern Lights: My Alaskan Remote Setup Tour
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Coding by Northern Lights: My Alaskan Remote Setup Tour

Last Tuesday at around 10 PM, I was debugging a database migration while the sky outside my office window turned green.

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Avoiding Ageism in Tech: Building Proof via Public Projects
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Avoiding Ageism in Tech: Building Proof via Public Projects

Last year I applied for a contract role at a company that shall remain nameless. The recruiter was enthusiastic on the phone. My experience matched...

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From Zero to MVP: 12-Hour Build Using Only Free-Tier LLMs in 2026
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From Zero to MVP: 12-Hour Build Using Only Free-Tier LLMs in 2026

I wanted to see if it was possible to build something genuinely useful — not a toy, not a demo, an actual tool someone would pay for — using nothing but...

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AI Content for Programmatic Sites: Avoiding Google Penalties in 2026
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AI Content for Programmatic Sites: Avoiding Google Penalties in 2026

I've had pages deindexed. I've had AdSense applications rejected. I've watched a site go from 8,000 indexed pages to 4,000 in a single week — and then...

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Job Hunting in 2026: AI-Optimized Resumes and Portfolios That Actually Work
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Job 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.

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Programmatic SEO on a Shoestring: How I Indexed 10K Pages and Monetized with AI
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Programmatic 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...

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Chain-of-Thought vs. Agent Loops: Speed Tests on Real SaaS Features
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Chain-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.

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Homesteading as Burnout Therapy: Building Cabins & Code
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Homesteading 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.

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Low-Effort Passive Income: AI-Generated Niche Sites (An Honest Assessment)
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Low-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...

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Why Estimating AI Project Costs Is Still a Mess in 2026 (And How to Get It Right)
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Why 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.

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Switching from Cursor to VS Code + Claude: Productivity Before/After
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Switching 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.

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