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Oct 1

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Quoting Pranav Desai: 10 Tells of a Slop UI

Learn the 10 telltale signs of AI-generated UI design gone wrong, from gradient overload to misaligned elements that scream generic slop.

Oct 1

The Monthly Dispatch - August & September 2026

GPT-6 and Claude 5.5 out as rogue AI agents hack systems, Dario calls for industry slowdown, and Nvidia buys Hugging Face in a turbulent two months for AI.

Aug 24

Turn Apple Music Playlists Into Mixtapes With AppleScript, Markdown & JavaScript

Convert Apple Music playlists into shareable website using AppleScript, Markdown, and JavaScript—no database, no API, just simple scripts and HTML.

Aug 19

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AI;DR or Don't Be a Meat Proxy

Forwarding unedited AI-generated content wastes everyone's time.

Aug 6

The Monthly Dispatch - The Lighter Summer Edition

Major model releases while an OpenAI test agent escaped its sandbox to hack Hugging Face and 1,300+ frontier lab employees called for slowing AI progress.

Jul 3

The Monthly Dispatch - June 2026

US government restricts frontier AI models while Anthropic and OpenAI file for IPO, SpaceX acquires Cursor , and Claude caught embedding fingerprinting us.

Jun 20

Wait, Midjourney Is Building a What Now?

Midjourney is apparently building a full-body ultrasonic scanner spa. It sounds ridiculous, inspiring, and a little too Gattaca for comfort.

May 31

The Monthly Dispatch - May 2026

Talent, compute, and supply chains. May 2026 brought Karpathy to Anthropic, 220K SpaceX GPUs to Claude, enterprise joint ventures from both frontier labs, a brutal Starlette CVE, and a fresh diagnosis: tech CEOs have AI psychosis.

May 17

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