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The Grok Precedent: Why AI Creators Are About to Lose Their Legal Shield
France’s criminal investigation signals the end of “platform immunity” for AI tools.
 • Denis Stetskov
The Holiday Season That Keeps Making Tech History
No frameworks today. Just wild stories: the web born on Christmas, a million Zunes dying at midnight, and Netflix's worst holiday ever."
 • Denis Stetskov
When Announcements Replace Innovation: OpenAI’s Code Red and What It Reveals About the AI Industry
December 1st, 2025.
 • Denis Stetskov
Why Annual Reviews Don't Have to Be Bullshit
This week I ran annual reviews for six engineers.
 • Denis Stetskov
The Perfect Grammar That Defeats Us: Why AI Doesn't Need to Be Smart to Win
GPT-4 versus humans at political persuasion.
 • Denis Stetskov
The AI Industrial Transformation: Why This Bubble Has Real Revenue (Unlike the Dot-Com Fantasy)
NVIDIA has just reached a $5 trillion market capitalization.
 • Denis Stetskov
From Cancer Cures to Pornography: The Six-Month Descent of AI
In March, Sam Altman promised AI would cure cancer.
 • Denis Stetskov
The Systems That Survive: Four Years of War and the Math of Crisis Leadership
It’s 3:00 PM on October 10, 2025.
 • Denis Stetskov
Supervising an AI Engineer: Lessons from 212 Sessions
What actually works when AI is your only engineer — data, patterns, and the system behind “ultrathink.”
 • Denis Stetskov
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