I write regularly in the Silicon Slopes community — short field notes and longer essays on applied AI, the tools I build with, distributed systems, and founder life. Below is a selection; each card opens the full post on Silicon Slopes.
Solo entrepreneurship seems to contradict everything Taoism teaches. Taoism says yield; the founder is told to hustle. Taoism praises the person who acts without straining; the founder grades the day by how much effort…
Read on Silicon SlopesI've been writing code for 30+ years and shipping it with AI for about four of them. Last week someone asked me a simple question: are you a better developer than you were before all this? I gave a confident sounding…
Read on Silicon SlopesA conversation with a fellow Silicon Slopes member, Hassan Ali got me thinking about an old cybersecurity idea in a new context. In security, a honeypot is something that looks real and valuable but exists only to shape…
Read on Silicon SlopesThe problem: powerful tools, paralyzed users. PNXStudios is an AI content-creation platform. Users generate images, voiceovers, music, and video, run multi-camera shoots, and manage all of it in project workspaces.
Read on Silicon SlopesFor a few years, photography was a real practice for me — not snapshots, but study. I learned to read light and wait for it, to compose a frame and then break the rules I'd just learned. The craft rewired how I saw…
Read on Silicon SlopesThe most advanced AI systems on the planet get their new abilities from something almost laughably simple: a folder with a plain-text file in it. No code. No complicated platform. Just a short note that says "here's one…
Read on Silicon SlopesIn marketing, FUD: Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt — is what competitors weaponize to stall your momentum. Spread enough of it and prospects freeze. What I don’t see discussed much is how the same loop runs inside our own heads when building solo.
Read on Silicon SlopesIf you've ever scrolled the Silicon Slopes member list and felt a flicker of doubt — thousands of people, but how many are actually doing anything? — you may be asking the wrong question.
Read on Silicon SlopesTurn any codebase, knowledge base, or docs into an interactive knowledge graph you can explore, search, and ask questions about. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, and more.
Read on Silicon SlopesAttended the Hermes meetup this late afternoon hosted by William Andrew Cruz and the Hermes folks. I got a chance to test drive Diet Code and see some of the cool projects that William is working on.
Read on Silicon SlopesMost projects I've worked on accumulate a graveyard of beliefs that "everyone just knows." The encoder bitrate is fixed at 6 Mbps. The clock drift on these devices is always under 5ms. New users start in the free tier.
Read on Silicon SlopesSpell my name backwards. That's the project.
Read on Silicon SlopesThis morning I tried to do something simple. Connect Telegram to Claude Code, so I could fire prompts from my phone and get answers back without being chained to my desk. Anthropic ships an official Telegram plugin. I installed it. It didn't work.
Read on Silicon SlopesMy startup, PNXStudios, was selected to present at the Utah HIMSS Annual Conference during the Technology Innovation Session later this month. Ten minutes. That's what I (and other presenters) get to explain what we do.
Read on Silicon SlopesIt seems I missed the memo about Anthropic consolidating Claude Code commands into Skills. Since I use both, I decided to take a closer look. Commands are deprecated but still backward compatible — for how long?
Read on Silicon SlopesThis post is a summary of an excellent video I found last night. Claude Code has five customization features, and most people only use one of them. I use all of them — and some others.
Read on Silicon SlopesA while back, I built a diagram skill for Claude Code that's become one of my favorite ways to think through complex ideas. I built it because I was frustrated with how existing tools created poor diagrams.
Read on Silicon SlopesLast week Andrej Karpathy shared a method of using LLMs to build and maintain knowledge-base-like wikis. Instead of just retrieving from raw documents at query time, the LLM incrementally builds and maintains the wiki.
Read on Silicon SlopesIn late March, Anthropic quietly rolled out peak-hour throttling — and a lot of power users got blindsided by it. The short version: during weekdays from 5am–11am PT (6am–noon MT for those of us in Utah), your 5-hour window shrinks.
Read on Silicon SlopesMy $100/mo Claude plan got rate limited twice today. So I decided to dig a bit deeper and came across a video worth watching. Here's a quick summary: every message causes Claude to reprocess context.
Read on Silicon SlopesLike a lot of people, my first encounter with anything quantum was the double-slit experiment. It's one of those things that, once you actually sit with it, completely rewires how you think about what light is.
Read on Silicon SlopesEveryone's telling you AI is coming for your job. What they skip: the people who'll be fine aren't chasing every new tool. They're building something AI can't replicate on its own.
Read on Silicon SlopesHello community. Do you or have you done your own video editing? If so, please consider sharing your thoughts on this thread. Which tool(s) do you use? How long did it take to get comfortable?
Read on Silicon SlopesIn the late 80s a friend of mine gifted me a 1970 movie poster for a film about AIs taking over the world. The movie was "Colossus: The Forbin Project."
Read on Silicon SlopesAnthropic just shipped Claude Code Channels — a research preview feature that lets you push messages from Telegram, Discord, and webhooks directly into a running Claude Code session.
Read on Silicon SlopesTomorrow I walk into a room with 460 companies. Today, AI is helping me with my prep work. I'm heading to the IHRSA / Health & Fitness Association trade show with one goal: have the right conversations.
Read on Silicon SlopesWhen you use ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, you pick a model. Most people stop thinking there — bigger model, better results, right? Not really. The model matters less than you'd think.
Read on Silicon SlopesLast night I had the privilege of attending the Synchronized Skating Championships at the Maverik Center — and I have Michelle Thomson to thank for that.
Read on Silicon SlopesNobody's firing their coach because an algorithm drew up a better play. But coaches are quietly offloading the boring stuff — the hours of video tagging, the spreadsheet gymnastics.
Read on Silicon SlopesWe are remarkably adaptive creatures. Like many of us, I grew up watching the Terminator series — and if you're as old as me, you might even remember Colossus: The Forbin Project.
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