Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

I tested Skywork's agentic AI workspace. It one-shotted an SEO audit of my site. Here's the honest review and what engineers should know.

Most "agentic AI" content is hand-wavy architecture diagrams. This covers the agent loop, tool design, memory patterns, and MCP with working code.

Skip the PhD. A working developer's roadmap to AI in 2026: LLMs, agents, MCP, RAG, and the projects that actually build real skills.

My AI publishing pipeline got a book flagged on Amazon. Here's how I added content risk assessment and why every agentic workflow needs quality gates.

OpenClaw has 247K stars. Its creator started with a simple agent loop. You should too. Build the fundamentals before adopting the framework.

Rome's road network, provincial governance, and currency debasement mirror the same failures we build into software. The parallels are uncomfortable.

80+ books, 70 audiobooks, one AI-assisted pipeline. Here's why the "AI content is slop" argument confuses the tool with the operator.

AI delivery pipelines need governance for accountability and compliance. Add traceability, approval gates, and audit trails without crushing velocity.

After 40+ years in software, here are the engineering skills AI has devalued and the ones worth doubling down on right now.

I built an AI chatbot that diagnoses car problems and generates repair content. Here's what I learned about trust, accuracy, and domain-specific AI.

Your AI writes fast. It also writes JWT bugs, hardcoded secrets, and SQL injection. Here's what the scanners actually found.

Five-layer guardrail architecture for AI document extraction pipelines that fabricate data instead of failing visibly.

Six months of tracked hours and output reveal where AI tooling actually boosts solo developer productivity and where it quietly costs you time.

The agent pattern that made Cursor powerful is moving into docs, spreadsheets, and email. The engineering challenges are harder than you think.

A hands-on walkthrough of fine-tuning Mistral-7B on personal blog posts using LoRA on an NVIDIA DGX Spark — from training data to local deployment, in one evening.

LangExtract brings schema enforcement, source grounding, and multi-pass extraction to any LLM. Here's how to build a real PDF intelligence pipeline.

I built an open-source EPUB reader in one night using Claude Code — drag, drop, read, and analyze your book before it goes live.

Low-code platforms promised to democratize software development. AI-augmented engineering just made that promise obsolete — and cheaper.

I've spent more on AI tools than groceries in the last 18 months. In Alaska, that's a lot of milk. Here's what actually earned its keep — and what was a waste.

Estimating AI project costs is harder than it looks. Learn why token costs compound, what self-hosting really costs, and how to build budgets that hold up.