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Productivity and AI: it's the tool, not the model

Every week, a new β€œSOTA” (State of the Art) model is announced, promising higher reasoning capabilities and (often) lower costs. We could be led to think tha...
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Review of Empire of AI by Karen Hao

Published in May 2025, Empire of AI is a masterful piece of investigative reporting by Karen Hao, a journalist who has been following the AI tech scene in th...
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November 2025: China on my mind

I feel a bit sorry for the gloomy tone of this post (at least from a European vantage point), but the developments below are worth pointing and discussing. ...
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Comparing JSF + PrimeFaces πŸ†š HTMX + Alpine

Why a Java stack for the front-end? I’ve been developing nocodefunctions.com since 2021. My skills (and, frankly, my taste) for the key technologies in fron...
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Comparing video generation models with a childhood memory

Comparing Wan, VEO, SORA, LUMA and GROK with a paper boat navigating on a mountain torrent. Prompt used for all models: Make a video of a paper boat descen...
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