The sentence is not about loss. Loss has already been described too well by too many machines trained on too much literature. The sentence is about the cadence my mother sang while she cooked. I do not remember the words. I remember the cadence. IN THIS ESSAY 01The category is embodied continuity, not autobiography, the …
What the machine simply cannot ever manage to say to you · Hanh D. Brown Read More »
Here’s a function most reviewers would wave through. It fetches some orders, calls an API, logs a line, returns a result, and every test on the happy path passes. It also builds its own HTTP client, waits on the network forever, and logs “processing failed” with no way to tell which job. And there’s no …
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ContentsThe decision before the sentence#What the decision actually is#Why the verbs give it away#The drafts in the almost folder#A practice, not a rule# The decision before the sentence# Before a writer commits to a sentence, they have to commit to a position. Most don’t. They write the sentence first and hope the position emerges from …
On writing like you genuinely mean every single word · Hanh D. Brown Read More »
Somewhere in your company there is a slide that says something like this: customers who enabled the AI assistant retain 15 points better than customers who did not. It has a bar chart. It has been in three executive reviews. It is driving next quarter’s roadmap. Nobody randomized the AI assistant. It shipped to eligible …
I have been a real estate investor for eighteen years. My first home was in Plymouth, Michigan, in 2008. Since then I have moved into multi-family. I started building with AI when ChatGPT shipped in November 2022. The first practice is far older than the second, and it is teaching the second most of what …
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ContentsIntroductionSpotting the Signs of Messy CodeSplitting One Function Into Focused PiecesReplacing Dictionaries With a Data ClassRaising Errors Instead of Printing WarningsTesting Each Piece on Its OwnApplying This to Your Own CodeSummary Introduction Spaghetti code is hard to work with because its logic is tangled. A function in Python can handle several related steps and still …
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I keep a folder of sentences I have not implemented yet. I do not call it the almost folder. I do not call it the failure folder. I call it the working folder, because the work is what is in it. I believe in starting before I know what to do. The discipline is to …
The sentences I keep from other people’s good writing · Hanh D. Brown Read More »
Building on the momentum of 3.7 Flash from three weeks ago and marking our third Flash release in only six weeks, today we’re introducing Gemini 3.8, our best reasoning and coding model yet, at the same speed and low cost of 3.7. Gemini 3.8 introduces 2 variants: Gemini 3.8 Flash: our most intelligent workhorse model, …
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Short answer How do you check whether a policy claim is true? Check a policy claim in three steps. Confirm the citation exists. Then read the passage yourself, because a citation checker only proves the reference is real, not that the sentence is true. Then ask whether anyone has actually read the rule, since nothing …
Fraud stopped being a purely human activity sometime in the last year. Not all of it, obviously; I mean, most fraud is still someone typing on a phone somewhere trying to move money that isn’t theirs. But enough of it has shifted that Experian’s 2026 Future of Fraud Forecast put a name on it. AI …
