There’s a phrase every software engineer with some experience immediately recognizes as a red flag. It’s not “I need this by tomorrow,” nor “can you take a quick look at this?” It’s far more subtle and dangerous: “Hey, I’ve got…

The idea started in a pretty dumb way. I was studying English —again— and I realized something I’d been doing wrong for years: I was treating every word like it floated alone in space. Like the language was alphabet soup.…

After ShadowCoach, I wanted more. The pronunciation tool was fine, but it only covered one part of learning: the mechanical side of repeating sounds. What I really wanted was to practice real conversation. To have someone — or something —…

The idea started in a pretty dumb way. I’d been using ChatGPT and other conversational AIs to practice English for a while, and while it was cool to be able to talk to a machine, I always had this feeling…