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AI Watermarks Today. Copyright Claims Tomorrow?
AI transparency should identify the machine, not give its provider a claim over human-led work. Imagine spending a substantial amount of time building a successful software company. You identify the market problem. You define the product vision, customer workflows, commercial model and strategic direction. Your engineering team determines the architecture, data model, security requirements, integrations,…
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The Real Reason AI Tokens May Get More Expensive
It is not only inference. It is the frontier race. There is a popular argument in AI right now: Token prices are low because frontier labs are subsidizing them. When the subsidy ends, many AI startups will collapse. I think this argument is directionally right, but it points to the wrong root cause. The concern…
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What I Learned Using DeepSeek V4 Pro for a Real Coding Task
A practical retrospective from an AI-assisted software delivery experiment I recently tested DeepSeek V4 Pro on a real coding task from my AEIP — Agentic Execution Infrastructure Platform project. This was not a toy example. It was not a “generate a function” prompt. It was a production-style task involving a Rust/Axum backend, PostgreSQL, NATS JetStream,…