Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

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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Career Advice I Wish I Had at 40 (From a 52-Year-Old Coder)
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Career Advice I Wish I Had at 40 (From a 52-Year-Old Coder)

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...

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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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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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AI for Bear Safety: A Wildlife Risk Diagnostic Tool That Could Actually Save Lives
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AI for Bear Safety: A Wildlife Risk Diagnostic Tool That Could Actually Save Lives

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...

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Agentic Coding: How I Let AI Agents Handle My Entire Book Launch Pipeline
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Agentic Coding: How I Let AI Agents Handle My Entire Book Launch Pipeline

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

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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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Why I am Betting Against Claude for Enterprise in 2027 (Hot Take + Evidence)
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Why I am Betting Against Claude for Enterprise in 2027 (Hot Take + Evidence)

I use Claude every day. Claude Code is my primary development tool. I built a job classifier with Claude Haiku that processes hundreds of job listings...

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Copilot CLI Hacks for Non-Technical Founders (Tested on My Latest SaaS)
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Copilot CLI Hacks for Non-Technical Founders (Tested on My Latest SaaS)

Last Tuesday I was sitting in my cabin in Caswell Lakes, Alaska, watching a founder friend struggle over Zoom. He had a Rails app deployed on Heroku, a...

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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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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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Building Resilient Agents That Don't Break When APIs Change Overnight
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Building Resilient Agents That Don't Break When APIs Change Overnight

It was a Tuesday morning. I was drinking coffee and watching moose tracks fill with fresh snow outside my cabin window when my phone started buzzing. The...

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Monetizing Side Projects with Tiered Affiliates + Books
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Monetizing Side Projects with Tiered Affiliates + Books

Let me tell you what nobody at those "passive income" conferences wants to admit: most side projects don't make money. They make traffic. They make GitHub...

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