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Matt Mickiewicz

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Tech investor & mouse jiggler. Previously co-Founder at Hired & 99designs. INTJ with a Questioner tendency. 🇨🇦
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I'm spending 80 hours a week at Hired, a San Francisco-based startup I co-founded in 2012 (then-named DeveloperAuction) to disrupt the recruiting industry. Hired began as an innovative transparent marketplace for matching top Bay Area software engineer with companies actively seeking to hire them, and has since expanded to encompass other tech workers and more than 3300 companies across 15 cities in 5 countries.

I believe that by curating talent and intent, and using marketplace dynamics and m…

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Alibaba Bans Claude Code: The Backdoor Scare Explained

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By Matt Mickiewicz
| SitePoint
In July 2025, Alibaba reportedly banned Claude Code across its engineering divisions. The decision followed weeks of escalating claims that Anthropic had embedded covert anti-distillation logic inside Claude Code, logic that allegedly targeted Chinese proxies and AI laboratories. A Reddit reverse-engineering post set it off. Within weeks, the incident became a major trust crisis for the AI developer tooling space.
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The Cost Inversion: Running Production AI on DeepSeek V4-Flash vs Gemini

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By Matt Mickiewicz
| SitePoint
As engineering teams push AI features from prototype to production, API calls to large language models quietly become a top line item in infrastructure budgets. This article walks through a complete, working implementation: a Node.js benchmarking service backed by Express that tests both providers across representative production tasks, paired with a React dashboard that visualizes cost, latency, and quality deltas side by side.
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OpenClaude with DeepSeek V4: Running a Fully Private AI Coding Engine on Your Laptop

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By Matt Mickiewicz
| SitePoint
AI coding assistants have fundamentally changed how software gets built. But every one of these tools operates on the same model: code leaves the developer's machine, travels to an external server, a remote server processes it, and returns a response. OpenClaude, an MIT-licensed open-source fork of Anthropic's Claude Code, combined with DeepSeek-V3 running through Ollama, creates a genuinely viable fully-local alternative to cloud-based AI coding agents.
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