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FEATURED2026-10-02
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Sunset Twice: How Google and My AI Assistant Killed My Startup
The postmortem for Alchememe—not once, but twice. How KILN and Patchiest got Sherlocked by Google's Antigravity and AI Studio, how the SMB OS pivot died at the hands of Muse, and why being six months early is the best kind of heartbreak.
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Michael Scott Hoyt@hoytnix
FEATURED2026-10-01
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It Started With Goombas: Teaching Machines to Feel Alive
When I was five, my uncle told me Mario’s Goombas moved because of "AI." Twenty-some years later, my 100th GitHub repo—a tiny language model named Yuli running offline on an iPhone SE 3—got more downloads in 24 hours than my first 99 apps combined. Here is the TehWiz origin story.
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Michael Scott Hoyt@hoytnix