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Long-form articles on AI tooling, automation workflows, and fact-checks of viral AI claims, researched, sourced, and written from hands-on testing.

Commentary

Baidu Just Open-Sourced an OCR Model That Reads an Entire Book in One Pass

Unlimited OCR is a 3B-parameter, MIT-licensed document parser from Baidu that transcribes dozens of pages (formulas, tables, layout and all) in a single forward pass with constant memory. Here's how R-SWA attention pulls that off, the honest numbers vs DeepSeek-OCR, and why your RAG pipeline should care.

August 4, 2026 6 min read

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Workflow

I Stopped Paying for Web Scrapers: Claude Does It in Plain English Now

Scraper SaaS charges monthly for what an open-source library now does from a sentence. ScrapeGraphAI (MIT, 29k+ stars) plus Claude turns "grab every listing with price and location" into a clean CSV, with no selectors, no subscriptions, and no scripts to babysit.

August 4, 2026 7 min read

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Fact-check

No, Claude Didn't "Kill" Web Designers, But This 3-Skill Setup Is Worth Stealing

The claim: Claude can now replace web designers with three design skills, Figma MCP, and Playwright. The setup is real and free, but the death notice isn't. Every tool verified, every claim fact-checked.

July 29, 2026 6 min read

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