Zero Fluff is a working analyst's notebook on where AI, telecom, and mobility actually collide — written by someone who's spent seven years shipping production ML, not someone selling decks about it. No demos. No vibes. Receipts.
Inside the networks and mobility stacks everyone talks about. For operators, product people, and anyone selling AI into telecom.
What buyers actually use, what they ignore, what they wish someone had told them first. SMB owners, frontline ops, real budgets.
Medical coding at claims scale. Breast-cancer detection in PACS. The work that earns the room to write the rest.
A 7.8-inch foldable in scarce September supply isn't a flagship. It's a yield-curve disclosure dressed as a launch.
$0.50 per resolved conversation sounds friendlier than seat-based pricing. The vendor still grades the homework.
Consumer coverage reads the roadmap as form-factor news. For mobility, it is a thermal and radio confession.
The agent that sticks has a narrow job and a clear human handoff. The rest comes back off by week three.
The invisible 80% that most ML coverage never talks about.
ML systems at Cellhub, where AI meets the mobile network.
Carrier Watch — what operators actually buy when they say "AI."
Dungeon Crawler Carl — pure voice carrying a ridiculous premise.
Why most SMB AI buys fail on the data pipeline, not the model.
