Notes on AI, tools, and tech.
Pierce Allen 
i have been in the ai coding assistant trenches for a while. Not because I can’t write code without them — I can. But because they save me time. And time is the one thing I never have enough of. I started with Cursor. Then I tried Trae. Then Claude Code showed up and everyone … Read more
I have been using OpenCode for about six months now. I started out just treating it like a chat box. It took a while to figure out what actually works. The default mode is Build. You say something, and it starts changing code. The problem is, most of the time I do not know exactly … Read more
I’ve been watching the Vibe Coding hype cycle play out for over a year now, and honestly? I’m relieved it’s fading. When it first dropped, my feed was flooded with “AI coding is the new era” posts. People were building full websites without writing a single line of code. Non-programmers shipped apps in two hours. … Read more
A screenshot started making the rounds in AI circles over the past couple of days. It shows a recruitment notice for a closed beta of something called DeepSeek Harness. According to the image, the tool is set to begin internal testing later this week. The first batch of users will be selected from small private … Read more
Google just announced they are killing three Gmail features that a lot of people rely on. Starting January 2027, you will no longer be able to send emails from a Yahoo or Outlook address through your Gmail account. The web version of POP fetching is going away too. And Gmailify, the feature that lets Gmail’s … Read more
Google has now confirmed what most of us already suspected. The Google Assistant is officially leaving mobile devices, with the process starting on September 4. I received the email last week. The language was polite but firm. From September 4, Google begins removing Assistant access from Android phones and tablets. The rollout stretches over a … Read more
Apple is about to raise the price of the iPhone 17 lineup. Maybe as soon as August 10. That is the word from supply chain chatter, and honestly it is not that surprising. Memory chip costs have been climbing for months, and Apple already bumped up prices on most of its other hardware back in … Read more
I gave Codex full access to my machine for one afternoon. It deleted about 300GB of files from my C and D drives. This happened to a user on X last week. They wanted to use up their Codex credits before a reset, so they asked the agent to remotely verify their project scripts and … Read more
I am not here to debate whether AI-generated content should be labeled. That ship has sailed. The more interesting question, to me, is what happens when those labels get stitched into the fabric of code itself. Anthropic just announced that starting August 2, 2026, all new Claude models will include built-in AI-generated content marking. Two … Read more
i have been in the ai coding assistant trenches for a while. I started with Trae, specifically its SOLO mode. It felt like the WebStorm of AI editors. Everything worked out of the box, and I never had to think about how to talk to it. It just understood me. Then I switched to Claude … Read more