You should be using Claude Code or Codex Agentic tools like Claude Code and Codex aren’t just for engineers — they’re far more capable AI for anyone willing to spend an hour setting them up. Carsten Hood
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“Anonymize Your AI Inputs” Is Bad Advice
“Don’t put sensitive data into AI” is a lazy, reflexive take — the same fear that slowed cloud adoption. Responsible use beats avoidance.
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You should be using Claude Code or Codex Agentic tools like Claude Code and Codex aren’t just for engineers — they’re far more capable AI for anyone willing to spend an hour setting them up. 
Brexit, Texas, and the American Tradition: Why #Texit Is More Than a Meme After Brexit, #Texit trended for days. The American union began as a voluntary compact of sovereign states — which makes secession a fair question, not a meme. 
Uber Leaves Austin: What We Can Learn From the Ride-Sharing Vote When Austin regulated Uber and Lyft out of town, it swapped a responsive market for a 17%-turnout vote — a lesson in prices, choice, and economic calculation. 
The Uncountable Cons of the War on Drugs A century on, prohibition hasn’t curbed drug use — but it has bred cartels, mass incarceration, corruption, and deadlier drugs. A tally of the real costs. 
School Sucks: Think Outside the Classroom School and education aren't the same thing. One is expensive and compulsory; the other is freely available, at your own pace, from the world's best teachers. 
Unarmed and Unreasonable: The Folly of UT Austin’s Opposition to Campus Carry UT Austin’s fight against Texas’s campus-carry law runs on fear, not facts — and the data from 150-plus carrying campuses tells a far calmer story. 
The Texan Aporkalypse: A Plague of Wild Pigs Three million feral hogs, half a billion dollars in damage a year, and no way to stop them. How wild pigs overran Texas — and why hunting can’t win.