Sean Breeden - Full Stack Developer and Digital Alchemist

Dead Internet Theory and Model Collapse are feeding each other

Bot traffic crossed 51% of all web traffic in 2024. AI-generated content is flooding search results. And the models learning from that data are quietly degrading. This is what a feedback loop looks like from the inside.

7/18/2026
5 min read

Local RAG on Ubuntu: ChromaDB + Ollama with no API keys and no token spend

Set up a fully local RAG pipeline on Ubuntu using ChromaDB and Ollama. No cloud accounts, no API bills, no data leaving your machine.

7/17/2026
9 min read

Panpsychism and AI: why consciousness might be everywhere except your GPU

If consciousness is a fundamental feature of the universe, what does that mean for AI. And could digital computation be structurally excluded from genuine experience?

7/16/2026
5 min read

Boris Cherny on how Anthropic 2x'd engineering output without breaking quality

The creator of Claude Code hasn't written a line of code by hand in eight months. Here's the playbook he says other companies can actually follow.

7/12/2026
8 min read