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• Second Opinion: The AI Told Him He Was Losing Weight. The Bathroom Scale Called It a LiarNovember 10, 2026
  An AI food tracker reported a calorie deficit for a month while its owner gained weight. The lesson is not about fitness. It is that every AI workflow you run needs a dumb external instrument that can contradict it.
• Second Opinion: Your CRM Was Built for Eyeballs. Your AI Agent Has NoneNovember 3, 2026
  Angus Sewell says rip out the SaaS or build your own MCP tools. The research on context rot and MCP security says he is half right, and the half he skips is the expensive one.
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  Second Opinion: The Head of Claude Code Fired Himself. Do Not Copy Him BlindlyOctober 27, 2026
  Boris Cherny writes loops instead of prompts and hasn’t handwritten code in eight months. Impressive, and a terrible instruction manual for a solo founder. Build the off-switch first.
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  Second Opinion: Your Internal Tools Suck Because You Drew the Screen FirstOctober 20, 2026
  The tools that actually work are built data-first, with the screen as a throwaway final layer. But there is a step even earlier that most teams skip, and it is why dashboards die.
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  Second Opinion: Half Your Feed Is Run by Nobody. Here Is the Machine, and Its One Fatal FlawOctober 13, 2026
  That flawless daily account you follow may have no human behind it, just a four-skill bot copying what already went viral. The catch: it can never originate, and the research says copying is a race to the mean.
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  RAG on a Budget: Cheap Embeddings, Small Vectors, and a Database You Already OwnOctober 7, 2026
  Most RAG bills do not come from the LLM. They come from somebody choosing a managed vector database at the… Read more: RAG on a Budget: Cheap Embeddings, Small Vectors, and a Database You Already Own