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I Built an AI Pensioner to Answer My Scam Calls

I Built an AI Pensioner to Answer My Scam Calls

Scammers ring my mobile most days, so I gave them someone endlessly patient to talk to: Ernest, an eighty-four-year-old AI pigeon fancier. And when the AI won't do, the original 2011 Lenny takes the call.

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27 Years, 11 Weeks: Launching Local-Hotel.com

27 Years, 11 Weeks: Launching Local-Hotel.com

I've owned local-hotel.com for 27 years and stalled twice trying to launch it. What changed in 2026 wasn't the idea — it was finally having Claude as the engineering team. A builder's log: 11 weeks, 2,321 commits, more test code than app code, and the honest traffic numbers.