Jul 26, 2026 Jul 26, 2026 2026-07-26 I’m fortunate enough to have witnessed a few key moments in our recent tech history. One of them is web 3,…
Read more [ Video ] Software Engineering Is Dead! Is It Really? – Dragos RouaAt the beginning of June I decided to run an experiment: see if I can replace my $100 Claude subscription with something cheaper – but still keep the…
Read more The Poor Guy* Guide to Fable-level Vibe Coding for $80/month – Dragos RouaOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways AI technical debt is no longer just an IT concern — it has become a business issue that…
Read more Your Biggest AI Cost Isn’t the Technology — It’s the Hidden Debt Quietly Draining Your BudgetOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The four moves any non-coder can use to launch a one-person business this week. Key Takeaways: Discover what “vibe coding”…
Read more People Who Don’t Know How to Code Make 6 Figures By Cashing In On the $4.7 Billion ‘Vibe Coding’ BoomPublishing ten apps in four months sounds good. And it is good. It means the bottleneck is no longer building the app. With AI-assisted coding, small utilities, focused…
Read more Introducing App Store Release Agent – Automating my App Store Pipeline – Dragos RouaIf you’re over 50, you have something no younger developer can buy, simulate, or catch up on: you were born before mobile phones, before computers were in homes,…
Read more Vibe Coding for People Over 50 – Dragos RouaAt the beginning of June I started a “Claude withdrawal” challenge. The plan was to run MiniMax 3 for a month, to see if I can get the…
Read more Switching from Claude Code to Grok – Same Interface, Different Model – Dragos RouaIn the last four months, I managed to ship nine iOS apps. That’s a pace that would have been impossible for me before AI—completing even a single app…
Read more How To Manage AI Cognitive Overload – Lessons After 9 Apps Shipped in 4 Months – Dragos RouaLast week, Anthropic released Fable 5. Three days later, the US government ordered them to shut it down — for people outside US. Anthropic said they couldn’t filter…
Read more Running Local Private AI Models – How And Why – Dragos RouaThere was a time when attention was free. You gave it away without noticing — to a sunset, to a long conversation, to a book that took days…
Read more Harvesting Attention: What You Do While Your LLM Works – Dragos RouaThere’s a line from Boris Cherny, the head of Claude Code, that’s been quite present in the back of my mind for the past week. Paraphrasing: he doesn’t…
Read more I Write Loops, Not Prompts – Here’s What I Learned – Dragos RouaI’ve been using Claude Code, the Max 5x subscription, which is $100/month for about 5 months now. It is the main cost for my apps, at least for…
Read more Leaving Claude Code (Opus 4.8) Behind – Switching to MiniMax 3 – Dragos RouaIn January 2010 I wrote a post asking whether you were running the best version of yourself, built around a software metaphor — defrag your mind, update your…
Read more Are You The Best Version of Yourself? – Checking In After 16 Years – Dragos RouaAt the start of February 2026 I had one iOS app live in the App Store. As I write this at the end of May, I have ten,…
Read more Vibe Coding for Senior Developers: 6 Lessons | Dragos RouaIn 2018 I wrote about tool granularity — the mismatch between the instrument you’re using and the task it’s meant for. The watchmaker’s wrench: too coarse for watch…
Read more The Right Tool for the Job in 2026: What AI Changed – Dragos RouaApr 12, 2026 Apr 12, 2026 2026-04-12 Today I stumbled upon a nice write-up by Michael Grady about how he’s running AIGernon on Zo Computer. Michael is a…
Read more AIGernon Running on Zo Computer – Dragos RouaLet me tell you a personal story. One day, at my last job, the management decided to hire two more people in the tech department. They brought in…
Read more Claude Mythos, the Anthropic IPO and the Apocalypse that Never Was – Dragos RouaRay Dalio has been saying for a while that the dollar is in trouble. Not right now, not tomorrow, but rather at a structural level. His theory on…
Read more Can AI Inference Replace Oil as the Next Reserve Currency?When I really started to amplify my work with AI, the most annoying thing was the message: “you have hit your quota, usage reset at 3:00 AM”. That…
Read more Just 5 Words: AI Storytelling with Apple IntelligenceA couple of weeks ago I shared my blueprint for vibe coding iOS apps in coffee shops. The post was well received (and the Reddit snippet made over…
Read more Vibe Coding Lessons: Build iOS Apps in 7 Days + Genesis Prompt
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