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Claude Design: What It Is, Where It Fits, and When to Skip It

Claude Design is a tool from Anthropic Labs that turns a conversation into editable visual work: prototypes, slide decks, one-pagers, mockups, landing-page concepts. You describe what you want, Claude builds a first version you can see immediately, and you refine it by talking, leaving comments, dragging elements around, or moving sliders Claude builds for you. When it is ready, you send it to Canva, Adobe, Figma, PowerPoint, PDF, or straight into code. It launched on April 17, 2026 and passed a

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Microsoft Recall Opt-in Change

Originally published on lavkesh.com Microsoft just announced Recall will ship as opt-in rather than opt-out. That is a complete reversal from the original design, and it matters more than the technical detail itself. It marks a line in the sand for what users will accept from AI features running on their own hardware. Recall is the AI memory feature announced in May as part of Copilot+ PCs. The premise is genuinely useful: your PC takes periodic screenshots of everything you do and uses an on-de

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Smaller AI Models Take the Lead

Originally published on lavkesh.com The AI model landscape has changed. The focus is no longer on building the largest model, but on creating smaller models that are still useful. Google's Gemini 1.5 Flash, Meta's Llama 3.1 8B, and Microsoft's Phi-3 Mini are currently winning in real production deployments. The reasons for their success come down to simple engineering economics. Large models like GPT-4 are capable but expensive to run at scale. For features handling millions of requests daily, s

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Backtesting Trading Strategies: From Theory to Execution – My Quest for the Holy Grail of Profit

The Quest Begins (The "Why") Picture this: I’m sitting at my desk, coffee gone cold, staring at a spreadsheet that looks like something out of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade – a maze of dates, prices, and a gut feeling that I’ve cracked the code to beat the market. I had a shiny new idea: buy when the 50‑day moving average crosses above the 200‑day (the classic “golden cross”) and sell when it crosses below. Sounds simple, right? I threw the logic into a quick Python script, ran it on a

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Why 'Offline-First AI' Is No Longer Optional for the Global South

Why "Offline-First AI" Is No Longer Optional for the Global South There's a quiet assumption embedded in most AI development: that the people using your tools have reliable internet, stable electricity, and data that's safe to send to foreign servers. That assumption is wrong for most of the world. In Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, mobile internet penetration is high — but reliability isn't. A clinic in Kisumu might have strong Safaricom signal one hour and none the next. A county office in Turk

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How to Migrate from Cursor Rules to Agent Skills

Agent Skills are the open standard (agentskills.io) for packaging team-specific instructions that any AI coding tool can discover. Migrating from hand-maintained Cursor rules means moving from static markdown you write once to structured, evidence-ranked intelligence your team already enforced in PR review — and (optionally) letting tooling generate the skill automatically. Cursor rules live only in Cursor's tree. Copilot wants .github/copilot-instructions.md. Claude Code reads CLAUDE.md. Mainta

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