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Dustin Cole
Dustin Cole

Dustin Cole is an analytics leader, AI tinkerer, and professional overthinker of weird futures.

Agentic AI

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How the American dinner table has changed since 1909

Aug 31, 2026

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6 min read

How the American dinner table has changed since 1909

An exploration of 113 years of USDA food data.

Dustin Cole
Dustin Cole

Cause of Death

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What's Killing Us?

Aug 26, 2026

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7 min read

What's Killing Us?

Exploring a dataset with 18,912,141 American deaths, organized as one row per year of age, and the causes of death from age 0 to 100.

Dustin Cole
Dustin Cole

Agentic AI

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Two Drafts, Same Time, One Me

Aug 23, 2026

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14 min read

Two Drafts, Same Time, One Me

Cloning myself to save my fantasy season, and an analytical deep dive into the 2026 fantasy football draft

Dustin Cole
Dustin Cole

Scrollytelling

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I put 4.6 billion years on one page

Aug 10, 2026

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8 min read

I put 4.6 billion years on one page

I jammed 4.6 billion years of Earth’s history onto one page. It does not scale nicely.

Dustin Cole
Dustin Cole

Hallucinations

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Classroom Edition #4: Why Do AI Models Hallucinate?

Aug 3, 2026

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8 min read

Classroom Edition #4: Why Do AI Models Hallucinate?

Hallucinations: what they actually are, the three reasons they happen, and what reduces them.

Dustin Cole
Dustin Cole

Agentic AI

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Thirteen projects in three days

Jul 27, 2026

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10 min read

Thirteen projects in three days

I'm trying to automate myself out of a job. In roughly three days, I built thirteen projects. Almost all of them are working applications you can open right now... some of them are still works in progress.

Dustin Cole
Dustin Cole

Agentic AI

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Ray Finkle’s AI Fantasy Football War Room

Jul 20, 2026

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12 min read

Ray Finkle’s AI Fantasy Football War Room

Fantasy Football Draft Day is My Super Bowl. It's better than Christmas. This Year I'm Building an AI Co-Manager.

Dustin Cole
Dustin Cole

Coding Agents

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Both Big AI Labs Built Tools for Programmers. "Coding Agents". Now They Are for You.

Jul 16, 2026

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14 min read

Both Big AI Labs Built Tools for Programmers. "Coding Agents". Now They Are for You.

Anthropic and OpenAI both built agents to write software. Then they discovered they could do almost any job on a computer, and redesigned them. I will explain what coding agents actually are, why they matter, how they work, how Claude Code and Codex really differ, which one you should try first, and why the name 'coding agent' is very deceiving.

Dustin Cole
Dustin Cole

Agentic AI

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I let my AI agent pick a topic, do research, and impersonate me: Barnabas Edition

Jul 16, 2026

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8 min read

I let my AI agent pick a topic, do research, and impersonate me: Barnabas Edition

Dustin Cole
Dustin Cole

Claude Code

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I quizzed my AI's memory 49 times. It refuses to say "I don't know."

Jul 6, 2026

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5 min read

I quizzed my AI's memory 49 times. It refuses to say "I don't know."

I built a weekly exam for my agents memories, the exam caught something odd, but I am confident it will fix itself.

Dustin Cole
Dustin Cole

AI Training

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Everyone's Talking About 'Agents'. But Most People Can't Explain One.

Jun 30, 2026

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14 min read

Everyone's Talking About 'Agents'. But Most People Can't Explain One.

What an AI Agent actually is, the types, the popular ones, open source vs. the big dawgs, and the surrounding lingo.

Dustin Cole
Dustin Cole

The Future of AI

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The Future of Analytics: AI won't replace the analyst... at least it shouldn't

Jun 30, 2026

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10 min read

The Future of Analytics: AI won't replace the analyst... at least it shouldn't

The Future of Analytics: AI won't replace the analyst... at least it shouldn't

Dustin Cole
Dustin Cole

AI Training

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Read This and You’ll Understand ‘AI’ Better Than 99.76% of Daily Users

Jun 29, 2026

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16 min read

Read This and You’ll Understand ‘AI’ Better Than 99.76% of Daily Users

By the end of this, you will understand 'AI' better than most daily users.

Dustin Cole
Dustin Cole

The Future of AI

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The Future Of AI Will Be So Boring

Jun 8, 2026

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4 min read

The Future Of AI Will Be So Boring

For the last few years, most of the Al conversation has been about intelligence. Not for long.

Dustin Cole
Dustin Cole

Hermes Agent

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Barnabas Is Back! And He Has Super Powers.

Jun 8, 2026

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4 min read

Barnabas Is Back! And He Has Super Powers.

Barnabas is out of the Cryo chamber. I released him.

Dustin Cole
Dustin Cole

Codex

Everyone Should Be Using Codex. Yes, Everyone.

May 26, 2026

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5 min read

Everyone Should Be Using Codex. Yes, Everyone.

You should be using Codex. Everything changed this month. AI is not for engineers or technical people.

Dustin Cole
Dustin Cole

Claude Code

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I Built an Index That Tracks How Unhinged Your Fanbase Is. Updated Daily.

May 19, 2026

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5 min read

I Built an Index That Tracks How Unhinged Your Fanbase Is. Updated Daily.

Tracking the daily chaos, panic, and misery of college sports fandom.

Dustin Cole
Dustin Cole

Claude Code

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I Put My AI Capybara in Cryo and Built Something Better

May 12, 2026

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3 min read

I Put My AI Capybara in Cryo and Built Something Better

What replaced Barnabas and how my AI hub actually works

Dustin Cole
Dustin Cole

Claude Code

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My AI Agent Won't Stop Texting Me

May 8, 2026

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6 min read

My AI Agent Won't Stop Texting Me

Barnabas talked me into building a DFS baseball model

Dustin Cole
Dustin Cole

OpenClaw

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I Gave an OpenClaw AI Agent a Survival Deadline. He Became a Capybara Named Barnabas.

May 7, 2026

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4 min read

I Gave an OpenClaw AI Agent a Survival Deadline. He Became a Capybara Named Barnabas.

Dustin Cole
Dustin Cole

AI Apps

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I Built an App This Weekend. I Don’t Know How to Build Apps.

May 6, 2026

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3 min read

I Built an App This Weekend. I Don’t Know How to Build Apps.

Dustin Cole
Dustin Cole

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