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The 2026 Guide to AI Cybersecurity Skills: 611+ Battle-Tested Skills for Claude Code, Copilot & Beyond

The 2026 Guide to AI Cybersecurity Skills: 611+ Battle-Tested Skills for Claude Code, Copilot & Beyond By Sulla | March 16, 2026 TL;DR — Quick-Start Recommendation If you’re building AI…

8 min 1,540 Uncategorized

Jonathon Byrdziak @merchantprotocol · 2 weeks ago

AI Engineering

What Is Superpowers? Give Claude Code a Senior Dev Workflow

You've been using Claude Code to write software, but every session feels like rolling the dice. One open-source developer built a plugin that enforces the exact workflow a senior engineer...

12 min 2,332 AI Engineering

Jonathon Byrdziak @merchantprotocol · 2 weeks ago

AI Engineering

What Is QMD? Search All Your Docs Locally Without Cloud APIs

Your AI agents are burning through tokens just to remember what's in your own files. Tobi Lutke — the founder of Shopify — built QMD to solve exactly this: an...

10 min 1,832 AI Engineering

Jonathon Byrdziak @merchantprotocol · 2 weeks ago

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App Store Connect CLI: Script Your Entire iOS Release Pipeline

You're clicking through App Store Connect's web dashboard for the hundredth time — uploading builds, managing TestFlight groups, submitting for review — and wondering why this isn't scripted yet. One...

10 min 1,919 Uncategorized

Jonathon Byrdziak @merchantprotocol · 2 weeks ago

AI Engineering

12 Best ElevenLabs Alternatives in 2026 (Free & Local)

There are dozens of AI voice generators competing with ElevenLabs — but most comparison articles only cover the paid cloud tools. We tested 12 options across local open-source models, cheap...

21 min 4,162 AI Engineering

Jonathon Byrdziak @merchantprotocol · 2 weeks ago

AI Engineering

What Is ClawWork? The AI Benchmark That Pays in Real Dollars

ClawWork is an open-source economic benchmark that gives AI agents $10 and forces them to earn a living by completing real professional tasks. The top agent turned that into $19,915...

8 min 1,507 AI Engineering

Jonathon Byrdziak @merchantprotocol · 2 weeks ago

Machine Learning

What Is Unsloth? Fine-Tune Any LLM 2x Faster for Free

Two Australian brothers built an open-source library that fine-tunes AI models 2x faster with 70% less memory. Over 100,000 models trained with Unsloth now live on Hugging Face — including...

12 min 2,313 Machine Learning

Jonathon Byrdziak @merchantprotocol · 2 weeks ago

AI Engineering

What Is Visual Explainer? The Agent Skill That Replaces ASCII Diagrams with Interactive HTML

Visual Explainer is an open-source agent skill that replaces broken ASCII diagrams from AI coding agents with interactive HTML pages featuring Mermaid flowcharts, CSS Grid architecture views, and Chart.js dashboards....

7 min 1,303 AI Engineering

Jonathon Byrdziak @merchantprotocol · 2 weeks ago

AI Engineering

What Is PageIndex? RAG Without Vectors Hits 98.7% Accuracy

You've been chunking documents and hoping vector similarity surfaces the right answer — but on precision-critical benchmarks, traditional RAG only hits about 50% accuracy. Researchers at VectifyAI built PageIndex, an...

9 min 1,774 AI Engineering

Jonathon Byrdziak @merchantprotocol · 2 weeks ago

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12 Open Source Tools to Turn Photos Into 3D Walkthroughs

Dozens of AI tools now promise to turn your photos into explorable 3D scenes — but most are cloud-only or charge per render. We dug through every major GitHub repository...

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Jonathon Byrdziak @merchantprotocol · 2 weeks ago

AI Engineering

What Is Remotion? Make Pro Videos with React or Plain English

You know how to build websites with React. You write components, manage state, and ship UIs every day. But when you need a product demo video or a social media...

11 min 2,178 AI Engineering

Jonathon Byrdziak @merchantprotocol · 2 weeks ago

AI Engineering

What Is OpenClaw? The Free AI Agent Running $73K/Mo Businesses

You're spending thousands a month on agencies, virtual assistants, and freelancers just to keep your app business running — and you're still the bottleneck. One B2C founder replaced his entire...

11 min 2,156 AI Engineering

Jonathon Byrdziak @merchantprotocol · 2 weeks ago

AI Engineering

5 Free AI Tools to Manage Google Ads — Stop Paying Agencies

Most businesses spend 10-20 hours a week managing Google Ads — adjusting bids, pausing underperformers, reading reports they barely understand. A marketing agency in Austin connected Claude AI to their...

17 min 3,202 AI Engineering

Jonathon Byrdziak @merchantprotocol · 2 weeks ago

Software Startup

19 Best Product Launch Platforms That Actually Convert

There are hundreds of places to submit your software after launch, and most of them are ghost towns. We evaluated 19 platforms based on real traffic, audience quality, and whether...

21 min 4,089 Software Startup

Jonathon Byrdziak @merchantprotocol · 2 weeks ago

AI Engineering

Why Your AI Agents Are Bleeding Money on Tokens — And How Compression Fixes It

Your AI agents are running up massive token bills, stalling mid-task, and forgetting what they were doing three steps ago — and you're not sure if the fix is a...

12 min 2,249 AI Engineering

Jonathon Byrdziak @merchantprotocol · 2 weeks ago

AI Engineering

What Is LangWatch? Test and Monitor AI Agents for Free

You built an AI agent that works perfectly in testing — then it hallucinated in production, burned through your token budget, and nobody noticed for three days. LangWatch is the...

11 min 2,098 AI Engineering

Jonathon Byrdziak @merchantprotocol · 2 weeks ago

AI Engineering

What Is Lightpanda? The Headless Browser Built for AI

You keep hearing about AI agents that browse the web, scrape data, and automate workflows — but behind the scenes, most of them are dragging around a full copy of...

12 min 2,202 AI Engineering

Jonathon Byrdziak @merchantprotocol · 2 weeks ago

AI Engineering

Hunter & Healer Alpha: Turn Stealth AI Drops into Fast Business Wins

Another week, another stealth AI model drop — and another wave of founders wondering if they should care. Hunter Alpha (1 trillion parameters, 1 million token context) and Healer Alpha...

17 min 3,290 AI Engineering

Jonathon Byrdziak @merchantprotocol · 2 weeks ago

AI Engineering

The AI Reliability Gap: Why Engineers Are Wrong and Business Owners Are Right

Engineers tell you to "just iterate" your AI tools. Amazon iterated its way into 6.3 million lost orders when an AI wiped the production database. Business owners aren't holding it...

13 min 2,571 AI Engineering

Jonathon Byrdziak @merchantprotocol · 3 weeks ago

LLMs

What Is LLaMA 3? Meta’s Free AI That Rivals ChatGPT

Meta built an AI model that rivals ChatGPT and then gave it away for free. LLaMA 3 is the open-weight large language model from Meta that anyone can download, run...

17 min 3,234 LLMs