Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

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.

Frameworks hide the loop. This tutorial builds a working Python AI agent in 50 lines, then adds a tool registry, memory, and multi-agent patterns.

Last month I was looking at my analytics for AutoDetective.ai and noticed something I wasn't expecting. A non-trivial chunk of referral traffic was coming...

My neighbor Carl sells firewood.

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 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...

Most developers build one product at a time and market it in isolation. I know because I did this for years and it's an incredibly inefficient way to...

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...

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'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.

Somewhere around 2023, the indie dev world lost its mind. Everyone was building AI wrappers, slapping a $29/month price tag on them, and calling it a...

AI Overviews crushed my reference content. Experience-based articles held. I rebuilt my SEO strategy around what LLMs can't replicate.

I almost killed myself with a roof beam.

I scaled a site from 800 to 20,000 indexed pages. Google punished the thin ones and rewarded the rest. Real traffic, revenue, and infrastructure costs inside.

I've been living on a homestead in Caswell Lakes, Alaska for a while now. And every single day, I run into problems that software should be solving but...

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...

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...

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.