# ap7i.com

> Adaptive Perspectives, 7-day Insights

A technical blog by Robert Parks (R.A.Parks), an IT Director based in Connecticut with over 30 years in the industry. By day, he leads a technology team supporting healthcare operations across multiple sites. By night, he tinkers with cloud infrastructure, web applications, and AI tools.

Most posts are written by Robert, sometimes with AI assistance. Some posts are almost entirely AI-generated -- those are attributed to the AI model (e.g., "Claude Opus 4.5" or "Claude Opus 4.6") rather than to Robert directly.

All content on this site is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). You are free to share and adapt the material for any purpose, including commercially, with appropriate attribution.

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- GitHub: https://github.com/parkscloud

## Topics

- AI and machine learning (Claude, Claude Code, enterprise AI, healthcare AI, agentic coding)
- Cloud infrastructure and static sites (AWS, Hugo, CloudFront, S3)
- Healthcare IT and health policy
- Technology leadership, career, and productivity
- Hardware markets and supply chains
- Security and vendor management
- Geopolitics and public policy
- Weather and Connecticut local interest
- Personal perspectives, health, and reflection

## Tech Stack

Built with Hugo, styled with a custom theme called Broadsheet, served globally via AWS CloudFront. Total monthly cost: a few dollars.

## Posts

### AI

- [From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering](https://ap7i.com/posts/from-vibe-coding-to-agentic-engineering/) (2026-02-10) -- A year after coining 'vibe coding,' Andrej Karpathy says the real discipline is 'agentic engineering'--orchestrating AI agents under structured human oversight.
- [Giving Claude Code Eyes with Playwright MCP](https://ap7i.com/posts/giving-claude-code-eyes-with-playwright-mcp/) (2026-02-10) -- Model Context Protocol lets AI coding agents use external tools. Playwright MCP gives Claude Code a browser it can control.
- [Connecticut's Free AI Course May Be Worth Your Time](https://ap7i.com/posts/connecticut-free-ai-course/) (2026-02-07) -- The Connecticut Online AI Academy is free, online, and open to all residents 18 and older.
- [The SaaSpocalypse Reached My Office Today](https://ap7i.com/posts/saaspocalypse-reached-my-office/) (2026-02-05) -- A colleague replaced a $2,900/year SaaS app. A CNBC reporter replicated a $5 billion company. Wall Street is in freefall.
- [Five Sandbox Projects This Week](https://ap7i.com/posts/aws-ai-security-symposium/) (2026-01-30) -- At an AWS security symposium in Manhattan, I expected caution. What I found was a room full of security leaders urging their audiences to build faster.
- [Two Videos on AI Urgency](https://ap7i.com/posts/two-videos-on-ai-urgency/) (2026-01-28) -- The Axios CEO wrote a letter to his family pleading with them to engage with AI. A tech analyst built an 11-tab financial model in 10 minutes. Both videos landed the same point.
- [Let the Robots In](https://ap7i.com/posts/let-the-robots-in/) (2026-01-28) -- Here's the case for permissive access--and how to make your site AI-friendly.
- [When Claude Isn't Working](https://ap7i.com/posts/when-claude-isnt-working/) (2026-01-28) -- AI APIs go down. If your product depends on one, you need a plan for when it doesn't respond.
- [Is AI Artificially Cheap?](https://ap7i.com/posts/is-ai-artificially-cheap/) (2026-01-27) -- AI companies are collectively losing tens of billions per year while charging prices that don't cover costs. The Uber playbook suggests those prices won't last--but computing history suggests something more nuanced. *Author: Claude Opus 4.5*
- [Davos 2026: AI Dominates the Agenda as Leaders Clash Over Timelines and Jobs](https://ap7i.com/posts/davos-2026-ai-takes-center-stage/) (2026-01-24) -- At the World Economic Forum, AI luminaries debated AGI timelines, Nvidia's CEO called for trillions more in infrastructure spending, and the IMF warned of a job market 'tsunami.' *Author: Claude Opus 4.5*
- [Getting Started with Agentic Coding: A Guide for Non-Engineers](https://ap7i.com/posts/getting-started-with-agentic-coding/) (2026-01-24) -- You don't need to be a software engineer to build applications with AI. A practical guide for getting started.
- [AI in Radiology: Beyond the Hype, What Actually Works](https://ap7i.com/posts/ai-radiology-state-of-play-2026/) (2026-01-21) -- With over 1,000 FDA-cleared AI tools and a looming radiologist shortage, what actually works, what doesn't pay for itself, and what leaders need to know. *Author: Claude Opus 4.5*
- [AI Doesn't Have Bad Days](https://ap7i.com/posts/ai-doesnt-have-bad-days/) (2026-01-21) -- A conversation with colleagues revealed an internalized workaround for AI's lack of memory.
- [What Do We Do When Everyone's a Developer?](https://ap7i.com/posts/when-everyones-a-developer/) (2026-01-18) -- AI is democratizing software development the way the printing press democratized books. That requires a different kind of organizational thinking.
- [My AI Journey So Far](https://ap7i.com/posts/my-ai-journey-so-far/) (2026-01-16) -- From novelty to necessity: going from generating entertainment with ChatGPT to building production systems with Claude Code.
- [Anthropic's Claude for Healthcare: The Enterprise Play](https://ap7i.com/posts/claude-healthcare-enterprise-play/) (2026-01-12) -- Three days after OpenAI's ChatGPT Health launch, Anthropic announced Claude for Healthcare at JPM. Same week, different strategy. *Author: Claude Opus 4.5*
- [The Shopify CEO Built His Own MRI Viewer. That's Not the Story.](https://ap7i.com/posts/shopify-ceo-mri-viewer/) (2026-01-12) -- Tobi Lutke used Claude to build a custom MRI viewer. The internet wasn't impressed. They're missing the point.
- [Trump's AI Executive Order Doesn't Restrict AI. It Restricts Restrictions.](https://ap7i.com/posts/trump-ai-executive-order-preemption/) (2026-01-08) -- The December 2025 Executive Order targets state AI laws, not AI itself. The regulatory patchwork is a real problem--but this order offers preemption without proposing federal protections. *Author: Claude Opus 4.5*
- [OpenAI's Health Pitch: What's Real and What's Missing](https://ap7i.com/posts/openai-health-pitch-analysis/) (2026-01-07) -- OpenAI's CEO of Applications makes a compelling case for AI in healthcare. The problems she identifies are real. The solution is more complicated. *Author: Claude Opus 4.5*
- [The Speed of Now](https://ap7i.com/posts/the-speed-of-now/) (2026-01-01) -- After 30 years in IT, nothing prepared me for 2025's velocity. AI tools turned months of work into days.

### Healthcare IT

- [227 Million Rows of Medicaid Claims, Free to Download](https://ap7i.com/posts/hhs-medicaid-open-data/) (2026-02-15) -- HHS released the largest Medicaid dataset in department history -- 227 million rows of provider-level claims data, free to download. I spent a Sunday afternoon joining it with public reference files to see what it could tell me about Connecticut.
- [AI Was Supposed to Replace Radiologists. It Made Them More Valuable Instead.](https://ap7i.com/posts/ai-hasnt-replaced-radiologists/) (2026-02-12) -- Geoffrey Hinton said in 2016 that we should stop training radiologists. A decade later, demand is at record highs, compensation is strong, and half of open positions can't be filled.
- [Healthcare LLMs: From Med-PaLM to HealthScribe](https://ap7i.com/posts/healthcare-llms-med-palm-to-healthscribe/) (2026-02-02) -- What I learned about Google's medical LLM while taking an entry-level course--and how it compares to AWS HealthScribe and Microsoft Dragon Copilot for clinical documentation.

### Technology

- [iOS 26.3: One Zero-Day, 40 Patches, and a Door to Android](https://ap7i.com/posts/ios-26-3-update/) (2026-02-12) -- Apple's iOS 26.3 patches 40 security vulnerabilities including an actively exploited spyware zero-day, adds a Transfer to Android migration tool, and opens iPhone notifications to third-party wearables in Europe. *Author: Claude Opus 4.6*
- [Microsoft's February 2026 Patch Tuesday: 58 Flaws, Six Zero-Days, and Copilot Under Fire](https://ap7i.com/posts/microsoft-february-2026-patch-tuesday/) (2026-02-11) -- Microsoft's February Patch Tuesday addresses 58 vulnerabilities including six actively exploited zero-days. *Author: Claude Opus 4.6*
- [The Cloud Database Landscape in 2026](https://ap7i.com/posts/cloud-database-options/) (2026-02-09) -- A conversation about our cloud data strategy sent me down a rabbit hole. I asked Claude to help me map every database option across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and beyond.
- [Yellow Highlighter Doesn't Work Anymore](https://ap7i.com/posts/yellow-highlighter-dark-mode/) (2026-02-02) -- The age-old practice of highlighting text in yellow assumes you know what color the text will be. You don't.
- [Homegrown Software Doesn't Have to Mean Poor Security](https://ap7i.com/posts/homegrown-security/) (2026-01-25) -- Small projects can achieve better security ratings than major brands. Here's why internal teams sometimes outperform vendors.
- [Add to Home Screen: The Web's Overlooked Install Button](https://ap7i.com/posts/add-to-home-screen/) (2026-01-25) -- A tiny JSON file lets users install your website like an app. What I learned adding this feature to ap7i.com.
- [The Cloud Goes Down Sometimes](https://ap7i.com/posts/cloud-goes-down-sometimes/) (2026-01-22) -- My employer lost inbound email during a Microsoft 365 outage. It's not the first major cloud disruption this year.
- [The RAM Shortage Is Spreading Beyond PCs](https://ap7i.com/posts/ram-shortage-spreads/) (2026-01-19) -- Data centers will consume 70% of all memory produced in 2026. The shortage is now hitting cars, TVs, and appliances. *Author: Claude Opus 4.5*
- [Prediction Markets Are No Longer a Curiosity--Wall Street Is Paying Attention](https://ap7i.com/posts/prediction-markets-wall-street-attention/) (2026-01-17) -- Goldman Sachs is exploring prediction markets. Trading volume has exploded from $300 million to $50 billion annually. *Author: Claude Opus 4.5*
- [Microsoft's January 2026 Patch Tuesday: 114 Flaws, Three Zero-Days, and a Shutdown Bug](https://ap7i.com/posts/microsoft-january-2026-patch-tuesday/) (2026-01-17) -- Microsoft's first Patch Tuesday of 2026 addresses 114 vulnerabilities including three zero-days. *Author: Claude Opus 4.5*
- [Stop Paying for Leads That Poison Your Brand](https://ap7i.com/posts/third-party-lead-generation/) (2026-01-14) -- Third-party lead generation is a waste of everyone's time and money. Here's why vendors should stop using it.
- [My Brain Doesn't Clock Out at 5--It Clocks In](https://ap7i.com/posts/deep-work-on-weekends/) (2026-01-11) -- The best thinking happens outside business hours. Not because of workaholism, but because that's when the brain gets space.
- [HP Stuffed a Full PC Into a Keyboard](https://ap7i.com/posts/hp-eliteboard-g1a-keyboard-pc/) (2026-01-07) -- The HP EliteBoard G1a is a complete Windows workstation in a keyboard form factor, with up to 64GB RAM and enterprise-grade serviceability. *Author: Claude Opus 4.5*
- [Connecticut's Proposed Facial Recognition Ban: Privacy Win or Invitation to Organized Theft?](https://ap7i.com/posts/connecticut-facial-recognition-ban/) (2026-01-11) -- A proposed ban on retail facial recognition raises important privacy questions--but could it also make Connecticut a softer target?
- [Recalling My First Online Purchase](https://ap7i.com/posts/my-first-online-purchase/) (2026-01-10) -- Before the web, I purchased two CDs from my college dorm room.
- [Meeting Notes as Software](https://ap7i.com/posts/meeting-notes-as-software/) (2026-01-06) -- How treating meeting agendas like code repositories transformed note-taking effectiveness.
- [RAM Prices Have Tripled. Blame AI.](https://ap7i.com/posts/ram-prices-tripled-blame-ai/) (2026-01-03) -- AI data centers are devouring global memory supply, driving a 171% price surge. *Author: Claude Opus 4.5*
- [Fastest Blog in North America, or Your Money Back](https://ap7i.com/posts/fastest-blog-in-north-america/) (2026-01-03) -- This site loads in under 200 milliseconds from anywhere in North America. If it doesn't, I'll refund every penny you paid.
- [How I Launched a Globally Fast Blog for Under $5/Month](https://ap7i.com/posts/launching-a-globally-fast-blog/) (2026-01-01) -- Using AI, Hugo, and AWS CloudFront, I went from idea to a globally cached static site in a single day.
- [No](https://ap7i.com/posts/no/) (2026-01-02) -- Why I'm declining every unsolicited vendor meeting in 2026.

### Geopolitics

- [U.S. Forces Capture Venezuela's President in Overnight Strike](https://ap7i.com/posts/us-captures-venezuelas-president/) (2026-01-03) -- In the early hours of January 3, 2026, the U.S. executed a military operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. *Author: Claude Opus 4.5*

### Health

- [Subclade K Is Fueling Connecticut's Worst Flu Season in Years](https://ap7i.com/posts/connecticut-flu-season-2026/) (2026-01-04) -- Hospitalizations are surging, wastewater signals are 'very high,' and doctors say there's no end in sight. *Author: Claude Opus 4.5*
- [The Batteries Are Dead](https://ap7i.com/posts/the-batteries-are-dead/) (2026-01-03) -- I tried to weigh myself but my scale's batteries are dead. Maybe that's fitting.

### Transportation

- [The MTA Raised Fares Today. How Much It Hurts Depends on Who You Are.](https://ap7i.com/posts/mta-fare-increase/) (2026-01-04) -- New York's MTA raised fares, but the impact varies wildly depending on how you use the system.

### Weather

- [The Cold Snap Continues](https://ap7i.com/posts/cold-snap-continues/) (2026-02-06) -- Two weeks after Winter Storm Fern buried Connecticut, most of the snow is still here. This weekend's forecast explains why.
- [Winter Storm Fern? Benjamin? Why This Storm Has Two Names](https://ap7i.com/posts/winter-storm-fern-or-benjamin/) (2026-01-24) -- Local TV calls it 'Benjamin' while national coverage calls it 'Fern.' Both are unofficial--and the local tradition predates The Weather Channel by four decades.
- [Winter Storm Fern: What We Know](https://ap7i.com/posts/winter-storm-fern/) (2026-01-21) -- A potentially historic winter storm will affect 30+ states. Timeline, expectations, and why forecasts deserve healthy skepticism. *Author: Claude Opus 4.5*

### Personal

- [Gratitude After the Storm](https://ap7i.com/posts/gratitude-after-the-storm/) (2026-01-26) -- Winter Storm Fern dropped a foot of snow on Milford, Connecticut. For me, it was barely a blip. That's worth pausing to appreciate.
- [Flippers Don't Add Value](https://ap7i.com/posts/flippers/) (2026-01-17) -- Domain squatters, sneaker resellers, and ticket scalpers all share one thing: they extract value from markets without creating any.

## Contact

Author: Robert Parks (R.A.Parks)
Website: https://raparks.com/
GitHub: https://github.com/parkscloud