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Chris Dunlop

@chrisdunlop_37984

articles: 20
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active: 2026-05-07 → 2026-07-13

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CH Chris Dunlop · Realworld AI Use Cases

Something Weird Is Happening in the Software Industry

Small businesses are building more software themselves. Strangely, large organisations are becoming the better AI clients

May 16, 2026 · 8 min read · 980 claps paywalled #ai #software-development #startup

Something Weird Is Happening in the Software Industry

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CH Chris Dunlop · Realworld AI Use Cases

Why I Earn 10x More Than Better Developers — Part 2: Understanding Internal Politics

I stopped selling to clients and started selling with them. Nobody told me selling software was really about internal politics

May 08, 2026 · 10 min read · 355 claps paywalled #ai #software-development #sales

Why I Earn 10x More Than Better Developers — Part 2: Understanding Internal Politics

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CH Chris Dunlop · Realworld AI Use Cases

Are We All Just Lower Rungs on an AI Pyramid Scheme?

The AI boom has created trillions in market cap for a handful of companies. The productivity gains were supposed to spread. Will they?

May 20, 2026 · 7 min read · 334 claps paywalled #ai #ai-agent #business

Are We All Just Lower Rungs on an AI Pyramid Scheme?

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CH Chris Dunlop · Realworld AI Use Cases

Grok 4.5 vs Fable 5 Test — One is 10 times cheaper and faster

This review will save you a lot of money and time, I am genuinely impressed with one of these models.

Jul 10, 2026 · 5 min read · 185 claps paywalled #ai #grok-ai #fable

Grok 4.5 vs Fable 5 Test — One is 10 times cheaper and faster

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CH Chris Dunlop · Realworld AI Use Cases

What AI Does to Novice Coders & Why I Don’t Agree That It’s Bad

A critique of the idea that novice coders must write everything themselves before AI is allowed to help.

Jul 02, 2026 · 6 min read · 173 claps paywalled #ai #software-development #coding

What AI Does to Novice Coders & Why I Don’t Agree That It’s Bad

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CH Chris Dunlop · Realworld AI Use Cases

Make Cursor and Claude Code Faster at Solving Tasks

One question, asked repeatedly, is saving me hours every week

Jul 06, 2026 · 6 min read · 159 claps paywalled #ai #cursor #claude-code

Make Cursor and Claude Code Faster at Solving Tasks

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CH Chris Dunlop · Realworld AI Use Cases

I used ChatGPT 5.6 to help me investigate the “Make money with AI world” — is it a scam?

Is the AI side-hustle economy real, or mostly people making money by teaching others how to make money? I used /goal mode to find out

Jul 13, 2026 · 7 min read · 138 claps paywalled #chatgpt #openai #ai-tips

I used ChatGPT 5.6 to help me investigate the “Make money with AI world” — is it a scam?

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CH Chris Dunlop · Realworld AI Use Cases

What’s the best value for money? Cursor? Claude Code? Codex? GitHub Copilot?

Which AI coding tool gives developers the best return on money, speed, usage limits, and everyday coding workflow?

Jun 16, 2026 · 8 min read · 107 claps paywalled #ai #cursor-ai #software-development

What’s the best value for money? Cursor? Claude Code? Codex? GitHub Copilot?

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CH Chris Dunlop · Realworld AI Use Cases

I Asked a CTO What Makes a Good AI Pitch. He Told Me How to Sell Against Myself.

His sharpest idea was that proof should scale with the blast radius. The riskier the system, the more credentials he needs before he’ll…

May 28, 2026 · 5 min read · 107 claps paywalled #ai #startup #entrepreneurship

I Asked a CTO What Makes a Good AI Pitch. He Told Me How to Sell Against Myself.

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CH Chris Dunlop · Realworld AI Use Cases

AI Has Sucked the Soul Out of Hiring

My company is hiring at the moment and it feels like a dystopian movie

Jun 12, 2026 · 4 min read · 105 claps paywalled #ai #hiring #artificial-intelligence

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CH Chris Dunlop · Realworld AI Use Cases

The Best Developers Now Produce 46 Times More Than Average Ones

Cursor’s latest data shows a widening gap: the best AI-powered developers are accelerating faster than everyone else.

Jun 01, 2026 · 6 min read · 99 claps paywalled #artificial-intelligence #programming #software-development

The Best Developers Now Produce 46 Times More Than Average Ones

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CH Chris Dunlop · Realworld AI Use Cases

They seem a bit over the top and hyped — but I reckon AI prompt libraries are great

AI prompt libraries look like internet spam. Incredibly, some of them actually work really well.

Jun 05, 2026 · 7 min read · 79 claps paywalled #ai #artificial-intelligence #software-development

They seem a bit over the top and hyped — but I reckon AI prompt libraries are great

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CH Chris Dunlop · Realworld AI Use Cases

I Work in Sports Analytics. Real Moneyball Is Much Harder Than You Think

Twenty years after Moneyball, sport has more data than ever — but breakthroughs are still painfully rare. Have you ever wondered why?

May 07, 2026 · 7 min read · 72 claps paywalled #ai #software-development #sports

I Work in Sports Analytics. Real Moneyball Is Much Harder Than You Think

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CH Chris Dunlop · Realworld AI Use Cases

How to Use AI to Fix the Website You Built and No One Visits

A month after launching my website, I had 51 users, almost no feedback, and a growing suspicion that AI wasn’t the problem — I was

Jun 09, 2026 · 9 min read · 56 claps paywalled #ai #claude-code #cursor

How to Use AI to Fix the Website You Built and No One Visits

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CH Chris Dunlop · Realworld AI Use Cases

Codex, Cursor or Claude Code: Which One Should You Choose?

Codex, Cursor and Claude Code are all absurdly capable. The real question is where your curiosity stops

May 13, 2026 · 6 min read · 56 claps paywalled #ai #software-development #cursor

Codex, Cursor or Claude Code: Which One Should You Choose?

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CH Chris Dunlop · Realworld AI Use Cases

What Acquisitions have OpenAI, Claude Code & Cursor made?

In total they have made 21 acquisitions and I list every one in detail, I reckon you can learn new startup ideas from reading this list

Jun 23, 2026 · 12 min read · 32 claps paywalled #anthropics #claude-code #openai

What Acquisitions have OpenAI, Claude Code & Cursor made?

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CH Chris Dunlop · Realworld AI Use Cases

The 25-Minute AI Workflow I Use to Turn Ideas Into Working Products

A simple AI workflow for finding, refining, wireframing, and building product ideas faster with Codex, Cursor, and structured prompts.

Jun 20, 2026 · 6 min read · 26 claps paywalled #ai #cursor #openai-codex

The 25-Minute AI Workflow I Use to Turn Ideas Into Working Products

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CH Chris Dunlop · Realworld AI Use Cases

Cursor’s new Composer 2.5 model is fast, cheap and amazing

Cursor Composer 2.5 changes the economics of AI coding with ultra fast speeds, low costs and surprisingly good planning

May 23, 2026 · 5 min read · 11 claps paywalled #ai #cursor #cursor-ai

Cursor’s new Composer 2.5 model is fast, cheap and amazing

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CH Chris Dunlop · Realworld AI Use Cases

You’re Probably Using Prompts When You Could Be Using Codex Goals

If you keep typing “keep going,” “try again,” or “run the tests,” you probably wanted a /goal all along.

Jun 22, 2026 · 5 min read · 7 claps paywalled #openai-codex #artificial-intelligence #productivity

You’re Probably Using Prompts When You Could Be Using Codex Goals

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CH Chris Dunlop · Realworld AI Use Cases

I’m building a course on Cursor — help me make it right for you!

And let me know, are you a beginner, intermediate or senior developer?

Jul 09, 2026 · 1 min read · 2 claps #cursor-ai #software-development #coding