Epium Blog

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

Prompt engineering for ecommerce

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.
Use the right tool for the job. Node.js vs Python

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.