My December 20 AI Automation Challenge

Before I shut down the office for my annual December holiday, I want AI agents running 80 to 85 percent of my operations. Here is the challenge I am setting myself.

 · 2 min · Faisal Khan

Open Source and AI Are Taking Ideas Out of the Drawer

The tools becoming available as open source are extraordinary. Combine them with AI, and those ideas sitting in the drawers of your brain start looking a lot more achievable.

 · 3 min · Faisal Khan

I Built a World Clock Because Time Zones Are Not Math

Cross-border calls made me want more than a row of clocks. So I built Meridian Clock: a private, offline world clock and time zone converter that handles daylight-saving edge cases.

 · 5 min · Faisal Khan

Navigating the Age of AI: Building a Curated Marketplace for Lasting Value

AI is changing the value of old consulting models. DealHarbor is my answer: a curated marketplace for regulated finance listings, brokers, and solution providers.

 · 3 min · Faisal Khan

Graham Hancock on The Diary Of A CEO

Graham Hancock’s conversation on The Diary Of A CEO is a fascinating interview, and it sent me back to a book of his I already had on my shelf.

 · 1 min · Faisal Khan

Coding at the Speed of Thought

AI coding is making it possible for regular people to turn ideas into working software, businesses, tools, and services by simply describing what they want.

 · 5 min · Faisal Khan

What If AI Gets Out of Control?

A personal rant on artificial intelligence, the old sci-fi warnings of Skynet and rogue machines, and why local models may matter more than we think.

 · 4 min · Faisal Khan

What If the Big Bang Was a Program Launch?

What if the Big Bang was like launching an old compressed computer file, unpacking into galaxies, planets, civilizations, and everything we call reality?

 · 3 min · Faisal Khan

Baidu's Unlimited OCR Turns Complex PDFs Into Markdown

Unlimited OCR from Baidu is an open-source local document parser that turns PDFs into Markdown and works to preserve the structure and meaning inside complex pages.

 · 2 min · Faisal Khan

Kimi Swarm and the Mechanical Document Editor

I found a Kimi Swarm use case called The Impact No. 01, a beautiful mechanical document editor with assembly, cutaway, sound, and tactile typing.

 · 2 min · Faisal Khan