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Aziz Banihashemi | DevCraft

12 articles

AI & Search
Jul 14, 2026

The Denominator Problem: Why AI Citation Percentages Keep Disagreeing

ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity do not cite the web in the same way. Before trusting an AI visibility percentage, inspect its denominator, query set, time window, and citation unit.

9 min
AEOGEOLLMO
The Denominator Problem: Why AI Citation Percentages Keep Disagreeing
Insights
Jun 24, 2026

A Cowboy Hat Company Found Us Through Gemini. Now I Think About SEO Differently

A demo request that looked like it came from the Philippines turned out to be a family-owned hat business in the United States. When I asked how they found us, the answer was one word: Gemini. Here is what that taught me about the future of product discovery.

11 min
AI SearchLLM OptimizationGEO
A Cowboy Hat Company Found Us Through Gemini. Now I Think About SEO Differently
Development
Jun 22, 2026

Vibe Coding Without Going Blind: Why You Need to Understand the Math Behind LLMs

To get scalable code from ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, you need to understand how these models actually think. Here is the math behind why they write beautiful but non-performant code, and how to prompt your way out of it.

13 min
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Vibe Coding Without Going Blind: Why You Need to Understand the Math Behind LLMs
Business
May 13, 2026

The Founder's Mindset in the AI Era: Focus on the Road, Not the Walls

The AI landscape is changing faster than you can drink your morning coffee. Here is how to maintain your sanity and focus as a founder when the world feels like a roller coaster.

8 min
StartupsAIFounder Mindset
The Founder's Mindset in the AI Era: Focus on the Road, Not the Walls
Business
Apr 30, 2026

From Idealism to $850 Billion: The OpenAI Story and What It Means for Business Ethics

The journey from a 2015 nonprofit vision to an $850B legal battle reveals the tension between idealism and capitalism in AI. What the OpenAI vs Musk trial means for business ethics.

13 min
OpenAIAI EthicsSam Altman
From Idealism to $850 Billion: The OpenAI Story and What It Means for Business Ethics
Technology
Apr 22, 2026

The Interface Shift: Why Decisions No Longer Happen in Your Storefront

Discover why traditional storefronts are disappearing. Learn how Agentic Commerce and LLMO optimization are reshaping e-commerce decisions forever.

9 min
Agentic CommerceE-commerceAI Models
The Interface Shift: Why Decisions No Longer Happen in Your Storefront
Technology
Apr 16, 2026

One Warrior, a Field of Soldiers: What Five Days with AI Taught Us About the Future of Work

A skeptical CTO thought AI would replace him with a button. Five days and $140 in extra usage later, he became its fiercest advocate. This is the story of what happens when deep expertise meets AI amplification and why an old Persian proverb about warriors and armies is the most accurate description of Sam Altman's one-person billion-dollar company prediction.

14 min
AI AmplificationFuture of WorkCTO
One Warrior, a Field of Soldiers: What Five Days with AI Taught Us About the Future of Work
Technology
Apr 10, 2026

The Unborn's Inheritance: A Letter to the Generation That Cannot Yet Object

A letter to the children who cannot yet vote, object, or consent about the autonomous weapons we normalized, the cures we chose not to build, the jobs we automated, the genes we may edit, and the planet we warmed. An honest accounting of what our generation chose to leave behind, and the irreversible inheritance we are creating at quarterly earnings speed.

14 min
Intergenerational EthicsSingularityFuture Generations
The Unborn's Inheritance: A Letter to the Generation That Cannot Yet Object
Technology
Apr 6, 2026

The Gleaners: How to Build a Business in the Fields That Giants Leave Behind

80,000 tech workers were laid off in Q1 2026, half of whom were replaced by AI. Sam Altman predicts one-person billion-dollar companies. But the real opportunity is not in building unicorns. It is in gleaning the fields that industrial-scale AI cannot harvest. A stage-by-stage guide to the AI tools reshaping every phase of business, and why the most valuable grain is the one the combines leave behind.

15 min
AI BusinessEntrepreneurshipTech Layoffs
The Gleaners: How to Build a Business in the Fields That Giants Leave Behind
Technology
Mar 28, 2026

The Cure We Chose Not to Build: Nanobots, the Business of Dying, and the Singularity's Broken Promise

Ray Kurzweil predicts nanobots in our bloodstream by the 2030s and escape velocity in longevity by 2032. The technology to conquer disease and perhaps death itself is on the horizon. So why is 80% of global venture capital flowing into AI weapons and space colonization while hospitals allocate just 4.2% of their IT budgets to AI? A philosophical examination of the VUCA world, the business of dying, and the singularity's broken promise.

14 min
NanobotsKurzweilSingularity
The Cure We Chose Not to Build: Nanobots, the Business of Dying, and the Singularity's Broken Promise
Technology
Mar 26, 2026

The Forbidden Fruit of Autonomy: Why Removing Humans from AI's Kill Chain Is the Original Sin of Our Time

From Gaza's Lavender algorithm to the 2026 Iran war's autonomous drone swarms, and Anthropic's historic stand against the Pentagon. This is the story of humanity's most dangerous choice: letting machines decide who lives and who dies. A philosophical examination of why removing humans from the AI kill chain may be the irreversible "original sin" of the technological age.

12 min
AI EthicsAutonomous WeaponsHuman-in-the-Loop
The Forbidden Fruit of Autonomy: Why Removing Humans from AI's Kill Chain Is the Original Sin of Our Time
AI & Exponential Tech
Feb 26, 2026

The Singularity Paradox: Why Ray Kurzweil's Timeline Should Terrify and Inspire Us

Singularity ≈ Recursive Self-Improvement → Rapid Capability Explosion → Loss of Predictability. Understanding Ray Kurzweil's AGI timeline reveals why we're running out of time to prepare.

8 min
AIAGISingularity
The Singularity Paradox: Why Ray Kurzweil's Timeline Should Terrify and Inspire Us