Blog

2026-08-27

What it actually means to be a Staff Engineer in 2026, when most of your day is directing AI agents rather than writing code — and why the industry hasn't caught up with a title for it yet.

2026-08-25

What to run locally on Apple Silicon in August 2026 — LLM, image, audio, and video — organized by RAM tier, with the specific workloads that still belong in the cloud.

2026-08-14

Meta's Muse Glimmer is a 30B open-weight model that runs on a Mac you already own and does agentic tool-calling competitively with Claude Sonnet. It's not a Sonnet replacement — it's the first credible argument for splitting your agent stack into a free local tier and a paid frontier tier.

2026-07-03

Fable 5 was briefly included in your Claude subscription. On July 7, that window closes. A look at what actually happened, why the model got worse after coming back, and where AI subscription value is really going.

2026-06-25

Six weeks after writing about AI brain fry, the problem got denser, not lighter. Here's what the new research says, what my own practices held, and the small iOS app I built to stop and recover.

2026-06-19

SpaceX went public last week at the largest IPO in history. Then it bought Cursor for $60 billion. The AI label isn't just investor framing — it's doing real work on a $2 trillion valuation that the underlying numbers can't fully justify yet.

2026-06-18

Why I built Snapstub — a $9.99 iOS receipt scanner that lives in your Files app, exports to CSV or a PDF report, and never holds your records behind a paywall.

2026-06-10

A raw account of launching PhotoDrift — a $9.99 one-time-purchase photo cleaner — on Product Hunt. The numbers, what worked, what didn't, and why I'd do it again differently.

2026-06-10

Google Lens, Facetune, ChatGPT — most AI photo tools send your images to the cloud, and some train on them. One company was ordered by the FTC to delete its entire algorithm. Here's how I built PhotoDrift and SnapDraft to keep everything on your iPhone.

2026-06-04

What actually changes when AI agents do most of the coding — and what doesn't. A practitioner's guide to starting a serious software project in 2026.

2026-05-28

A working engineer's take on cognitive overload from managing multiple AI agents, why it sneaks up on you, and what actually helps.

2026-05-24

A first-hand account of what it actually takes to introduce AI coding tools across a large engineering organization — from the first pilot to company-wide adoption, the politics, the procurement, the skeptics, and what nobody tells you about how people really adopt these tools.

2026-05-22

IBM's empire lasted 20 years. Microsoft's lasted 20. The AI cycle is projected at 7-12 — and that might be optimistic. Why everything is moving faster, what history says about it, and what that means for everyone who isn't OpenAI or NVIDIA.

2026-05-16

Screenshots capture your most sensitive data — bank balances, passwords, private messages. Most tools that make them look good do it by uploading them to a server. Snapdraft doesn't.

2026-05-15

AI coding tools are quietly rebuilding their pricing around autonomous agents. A look at what's changing across Copilot, Claude, Codex, Cursor, and Windsurf — and what it means for developers and teams before June 2026.

2026-05-02

The Jevons Paradox explains why AI efficiency breakthroughs keep accelerating energy consumption instead of reducing it. A pattern that started with 19th-century coal and is playing out in real time.

2026-04-28

Most engineering teams are stuck at Era 2 — AI-assisted but not AI-native. Here's the research-backed playbook for making the jump, the failure modes that kill transitions, and what the companies that got it right actually did.

2026-04-12

Preparation and performance are two different systems. Research on cognitive overload, self-handicapping, and why high-achievers choke under pressure — and what actually works.

2026-04-02

The software engineering role is transforming in stages. Most of us are somewhere in the middle. Here's a framework for understanding where — and what to invest in next.

2026-03-25

There's a gap between what's true and what most people have processed about AI. That gap is where the future lives. Not in predictions — in the things that already happened quietly while everyone was still arguing about the last thing.

2026-03-23

Most people assume their chats are private because they've heard the word "encrypted." Here's what's actually happening — and what changes when AI enters the picture.

2026-03-22

I cloned my own voice locally from a three-second sample using an open-source model. The result was impressive, useful, and a clear signal that voice imitation is now accessible enough that everyone — individuals and organizations alike — should know how it works.

2026-03-21

A practical, step-by-step guide to building a personal AI assistant that handles voice, email, calendar, and memory — from someone who did it in under a week.

2026-03-21

Anthropic shipped Telegram channels, scheduled tasks, and remote mobile access for Claude Code. I've had all of that running on OpenClaw for weeks. Here's an honest comparison of what works better where.

2026-03-19

What happens when you wire an AI assistant into your entire life — email, calendar, research, voice notes, stock watchlists, and code deployments. A look at what's actually possible today.

2026-03-17

AI went from impressive parlor trick to something that's quietly reshaping everything. Two years in, here's what I'm actually seeing — and what I think comes next.

2026-03-17

The first post on suprun.ca — why I started this blog and what to expect.