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About RAWTEXT RAWTEXT is one person. Alexei Volkov — software engineer, practitioner, and someone who got tired of reading tech coverage written by people who've never shipped a line of code.
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Half Your Code Was Written by a Machine. Nobody Checked.
I run all three. Copilot for autocomplete, Cursor for multi-file edits, Claude Code when I need something that actually reasons about architecture. That stack costs me $50 a month and has changed how I work more than any tool shift in the past decade. I'm
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Half of US Jobs Will Change in Three Years. The Rest Won't Notice.
BCG just published the most detailed model anyone has built for how AI reshapes work. The headline - 50 to 55 percent of American jobs will be fundamentally different within two to three years - sounds like another consultant trying to sell transformation
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Your Credit Card Is About to Get a Co-Pilot It Didn't Ask For
Visa just launched a platform that lets AI agents spend your money. Not "recommend products" or "add to wishlist" - actually complete purchases, autonomously, using your real card. And every major tech company is racing to plug into it. I process payments
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Gemini Stopped Answering Questions. It Started Building Apps.
I've been using Claude's artifacts for months. I build small tools with them, prototype UI components, generate charts from data I'm too lazy to format myself. It's become part of how I work. So when Google announced that Gemini now generates entire inter
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A Ceasefire, a Chip Deal, and the Fastest Mood Swing in History
On April 7, tech stocks couldn't decide if the world was ending. On April 8, they decided it wasn't. The difference was one phone call between Washington and Tehran - and about sixteen dollars off a barrel of oil. I don't write about markets much. I'm a d
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90,000 People Got Fired. The Stock Went Up.
I wasn't going to write about layoffs. Everybody writes about layoffs. The tracker sites update, the LinkedIn posts go up, someone says "this is the new normal," and we all move on until next quarter. But then Jack Dorsey fired 4,000 people at Block - nea
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War Is the Best VC Pitch Nobody Wants to Give
I didn't plan to write about defense tech. I build web apps. Laravel, Vue, the usual. The closest I get to military hardware is occasionally debugging a TYPO3 site for a client who makes industrial sensors. But I've been staring at the funding numbers for
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The Pentagon vs. Anthropic - and What It Means for AI
I need to write about this carefully. Not because it's politically sensitive - it is, but that's not why. It's because the timeline is dense, most coverage has collapsed events that need to be understood separately, and at least one thing I assumed was tr
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97 Million Installs. Zero Questions.
I use MCP. Every day. Claude Code, Cursor, a handful of community servers for databases and deployment workflows. I think the protocol is good - it solves a real problem, and it solves it cleanly. Before MCP, you built a separate integration for every mod
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OpenAI Runs an $852B Company Like a Group Chat
I ship products on OpenAI's API. Have for over a year. I don't have strong opinions about Sam Altman as a person, I don't follow the palace intrigue for entertainment, and org chart reshuffles normally don't make me open a text editor. But when your most
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