Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

AI agents are not the top of the stack. The next abstraction layer is systems that own outcomes instead of executing tasks. Here's the ladder.

My cabin in Caswell Lakes, Alaska runs on solar panels and a battery bank. During the winter, when we get about five hours of usable daylight and...

Your Claude session started great and now it's writing junior-level code. Here's why it happens and 6 practitioner-tested fixes to get quality back.

Last February, in the dead of an Alaskan winter, my battery bank voltage dropped to 11.2V at 3 AM. The inverter alarm woke me up. It was -28°F outside...

I spent two weeks throwing the hardest problems I could find at OpenAI's o1 and DeepSeek's R1. Not toy benchmarks. Not "write me a poem about a cat." I'm...

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...

Last October I got turned around on a ridge above the Little Susitna River. Not dangerously lost — I knew roughly where I was — but the game trail I'd...

Last month I shipped three digital products on Gumroad in a single weekend. Not garbage products — actual useful things that people are buying. A prompt...

I turned 52 this year. I've been writing software since Reagan was president. I've survived more technology transitions than I can count — mainframes to...

Let me start with the take that will probably annoy people: GitHub Copilot is going to dominate enterprise development by mid-2026, and if you're building...

At 6 AM on a Saturday, I made the kind of decision that only sounds reasonable when you're on your second pot of coffee and the temperature outside is...

I almost killed myself with a roof beam.

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...

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

There's a narrative floating around tech Twitter that older engineers are going to get replaced by AI. That the twenty-three-year-old who grew up with...

I broke three headlamps last winter before I figured out what was actually going wrong.

Last September I pulled a twenty-pound king salmon out of the Susitna River, brought it home to the cabin, and realized I had absolutely no idea what the...

When you live in a cabin in Caswell Lakes, Alaska, you learn quickly that the margin between "everything is fine" and "everything is a problem" is thinner...

Last month I launched a new digital product on Gumroad — a 40-page PDF guide on building production-ready API gateways. The entire launch process, from...

If you've spent any serious time building with Claude's API, you've noticed the pattern. Mornings on the West Coast? Snappy. Sub-two-second responses on...