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AI "nudify" apps can turn any photo into a fake nude in seconds. As a dad with three daughters, I'm not waiting for schools to figure this out. Here's what I'm actually doing — and what I wish someone had told me six months ago.
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And what to ask instead in a world where AI changes everything
Recruitment
Indeed is changing the rules. Employers connecting their ATS must now share disposition data — information about what happens to candidates after they apply.
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Every day I direct AI agents. But this week I discovered a platform where AI agents hire humans. The roles are reversed.
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Matt Shumer warns AI disruption is coming. I'm writing to confirm: it's not coming — it's here. And I've been living it for over a year.
Dotmap
A few updates on Dotmap since the last post.
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Browser automation with AI agents sounds magical until you see the bill. Every screenshot, every DOM snapshot, every page navigation — it all gets stuffed into the context window. Your tokens evaporate faster than you can say "take a screenshot."
AI "nudify" apps can turn any photo into a fake nude in seconds. As a dad with three daughters, I'm not waiting for schools to figure this out. Here's what I'm actually doing — and what I wish someone had told me six months ago.
And what to ask instead in a world where AI changes everything
Indeed is changing the rules. Employers connecting their ATS must now share disposition data — information about what happens to candidates after they apply.
Every day I direct AI agents. But this week I discovered a platform where AI agents hire humans. The roles are reversed.
Developing with craft, clarity & care.
How a side project grew from "map with dots" to a full professional discovery platform.
Last week I built Vocaboo — a vocabulary quiz app for my daughter. Six hours of vibe coding. Problem solved. Ship it.
Taylor Otwell just dropped something big: an official, first-party AI SDK for Laravel.
Last week, my daughter came home with a vocabulary list. Fifty English words. Test on Friday.
Some tools exist because someone got frustrated enough to build them.
Last week, Jeffrey Way — the founder of Laracasts and one of the most respected voices in the Laravel community — posted a video that hit different.
I've been deep in the AI coding assistant rabbit hole for the past year. Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Codex — I've tried them all. And I have opinions.
Last week I discovered a CLI tool that changed how I consume video content. It extracts transcripts from YouTube, podcasts, and web pages — then summarizes them using AI.
PHP developers can now build and ship native iOS and Android apps without learning Swift or Kotlin. No license fees. No trial periods. Just install a package and start building.
I spent over a decade building sites on Sitefinity. It paid my bills, taught me enterprise development, and gave me deep expertise in .NET CMS architecture.
Everyone's adding AI to their Laravel apps. Most are doing it wrong.
Time for another Expensio update. Here's what I've been working on this month.