A balance scale sitting perfectly level: a tall stack of peer-reviewed books on one pan, a single small megaphone on the other — the visual of false balance.

How to Stop AI From Lying to You With "Balance"

Everyone worries about AI making things up or refusing to answer. The trickier failure is the calm, balanced-sounding answer that treats settled science and bad-faith contrarianism as a coin flip. Here’s how to spot it and ask your way past it.

June 18, 2026 · 7 min · Dan Hopkins

How I Built an Agentic Family Office

A DIY version of what the rich have: a team of specialists coordinating your money, running on my home server. What is in it, what it caught, and why the posture matters more than the tooling.

April 24, 2026 · 13 min · Dan Hopkins

What a Time to Be Alive

One of the untold stories of the AI revolution is how fun it is to build stuff again. A note on homelabs, work agents, and feeling technical again after a decade in management.

April 22, 2026 · 1 min · Dan Hopkins
Cartoon robot at a laptop shouting 'Enhance! Optimize! Ship it!' while a StackHawk hawk flies overhead and startled engineers look on — with an 'AI Fuel' jar of jellybeans and a +8x badge.

How StackHawk Adopted AI to Drastically Accelerate Development

Nine months of going all-in on AI-assisted development at StackHawk: the ramp-up, the custom tooling, and what actually made it stick.

April 3, 2026 · 6 min · Dan Hopkins