Epium Blog

Clear-eyed takes on AI and tech. Occasionally harsh, always grounded. Always honest.

Christian Holmgreen

Why LLMs Are Just Compression Algorithms with Delusions of Grandeur

11 Jan 2025

LLMs aren't intelligent—they're just advanced compression systems predicting the next word based on patterns, not understanding. Useful? Absolutely. Smart? Not even close.

artificial intelligence, large language models

Christian Holmgreen

Prompt Engineering for eCommerce: Worth It?

30 Nov 2024

Prompt engineering is useful at scale, but in eCommerce, it's a tool—not a strategy—and definitely not a replacement for knowing your customer or having a solid offer.

ai, automation, prompt engineering

Christian Holmgreen

Why I Still Use Node.js While Everyone Else Is Playing with Python

5 Nov 2024

Everyone's using Python for AI — but when you're building real-world automation, orchestration, and API glue, Node.js still wins. It's faster for async, cleaner with JSON, and better suited for actual deployment than Python's tangled coroutine hell. This post breaks down why I’m still all-in on Node, and why I don’t need to follow the AI herd to get things done.

automation, coding, node.js, python