2025 AI recap:

✅ 46% of GitHub code is now AI-generated
✅ Models got so good they're basically interchangeable

I made 10 predictions for 2026. Scoring myself in January 2027.

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Someone consumed 10 billion tokens in one month. That's 12,500 copies of War and Peace.

Another company went from $2,400 → $60,000 in four months.

New post: WTF is AI Cost Optimization

How teams are cutting LLM costs 50-80% without losing quality.

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New post: WTF is LLM Observability

Your monitoring: print("response received")
Your bill: $8,000
Your CEO: "explain"

67% of production LLM apps have no cost tracking. Let's fix that before your AI becomes a very expensive random number generator.

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Air Canada's chatbot told a customer they could get a bereavement discount retroactively. Air Canada paid $650.88 + fees.
New post on AI Guardrails—how to not end up in court because your LLM made promises you can't keep:
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Part 2 of my article on GenAI testing. People processing data and automating document related tasks would great benefit from this. Next week, we talk about Local Deployments but PewDiePie beat me to the punch from what I hear.

Check it out: open.substack.com/pub/takschdu...

My AI is fire is not a metric, want to learn how good your system is?

Read this post for a quick rundown: open.substack.com/pub/takschdu...

Watch out for part 2 with generation metrics and more.

Explaining fine-tuning, LoRAs, and QLoRAs like you're a semi-technical person who needs to make a decision about this stuff by Friday. 5 minutes, zero BS, and a couple of laughs.

Please read, laugh, and love. Covering performance metrics for AI next week.

WTF is RAG!? open.substack.com/pub/takschdu...

Stanford biologists just created the world’s first AI-designed viruses, taking a step towards AI-generated life ... and I thought the weekend was crazy enough already

HILARIOUS AND INSIGHTFUL!!

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Woah! Funnier, more informative!?

Need to check this out now: substack.com/inbox/post/1...

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