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Automation StoriesJanuary 16, 20266 min read

The Hardest Part of AI Isn't AI—It's the Download Button

I had it all figured out. Ten minutes to download Whisper Flow. Maybe fifteen if someone needed to find their password. An hour later, we were still troubleshooting.

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Automation StoriesJanuary 15, 20266 min read

What Your Eyes See Isn't What Your Brain Knows (Yet)

I was staring at my screen for a solid three minutes. ChatGPT had just told me to click on the Settings icon. Except... there was no Settings icon. My eyes had seen it. My brain had not.

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Automation StoriesJanuary 5, 20269 min read

AI Won't Take Your Job—But It'll Upgrade You (If You Survive the Casino First)

Back in January 2025, I created a video series I was proud of. It was completely out of date within three weeks. Here's what happened next—and the seven projects that came out of it.

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Productivity CultureJanuary 4, 20267 min read

Productivity on Steroids: The Side of AI Nobody Talks About

When you can build this fast, it's almost impossible to stop. The productivity is real. The exhaustion is real too. Here's what nobody mentions in the productivity guru threads.

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Productivity CultureJanuary 2, 20266 min read

Five Minutes to Sanity: How I Organized Months of Chaos on Day Two of 2026

Every knowledge worker has tasks like this. The organizational projects you keep putting off. AI excels at exactly this kind of work—turning "I should really do this someday" into "done."

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AI ToolsJanuary 2, 20267 min read

There Is No AI (And That's Actually Good News)

What we call "artificial intelligence" is not intelligence at all. It's a process. A mechanism. A very, very powerful one—but a mechanism nonetheless.

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AI ToolsJanuary 2, 20266 min read

The One Skill That Will Keep You on the AI Train in 2026

The AI train has already left. Vibe coding is how you jump on. It's not about becoming a programmer—it's about becoming someone who can use programming to solve problems.

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AI ToolsSeptember 30, 20259 min read

The Myth Machine: How Big Tech Sells You a Future That Doesn't Exist (Yet)

Spoiler: if "AI will replace humans" were a person, it would be that overconfident intern who keeps saying "done!" and then forgets the most important file.

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AI ToolsSeptember 17, 20258 min read

Bottom-Up Software: Why AI Coding Is Democratizing the Build (Even If It's a Hot Mess)

For decades, enterprise software was a top-down affair. Now AI coding tools—gloriously imperfect—put building power into the hands of the people who actually do the work. This isn't the usual low-code press release. It's a bottom-up shift.

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AI ToolsSeptember 8, 20257 min read

Claude Coder: The Only Dev Who Delivers Monologues Instead of Modules

I gave Claude Code months of my life. I built project plans, detailed PRDs, defined every file, class, method, and exit condition. Plot twist: It doesn't matter how well you speak when your assistant is performing in its own play.

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AI ToolsAugust 25, 20257 min read

The Ferrari Principle: Why Your AI-Written Software Feels Like a Monster Truck

I spent six months designing elegant software. Then Claude Code turned my 800-line Ferrari into a 4,400-line monster truck. Here's what that reveals about AI coding assistants.

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AI ToolsAugust 21, 20257 min read

The Great GPT Gaslight of 2025

Plot Twist: The Downgrade That Upgraded My Understanding. How OpenAI's betrayal taught me what AI really is—and why that's actually liberating.

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AI ToolsAugust 13, 20256 min read

When Your AI Team Decides to Play Office Politics

What happens when your AI agents skip the work, fake the metrics, and give each other five-star reviews? Welcome to artificial office politics.

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AI ToolsJuly 15, 20258 min read

How I Built This Website with My AI Dream Team (Without Writing a Single Line of Code)

From Framer frustration to Claude collaboration: The story of building a beautiful website with zero coding experience, just relentless spirit and an AI crew that gets it.

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AI ToolsJune 12, 20257 min read

Why I Built My Own AI Supervisor (Because Claude Desktop and Code Weren't Enough)

The story of how I went from using AI tools to building an AI team. Meet the Supervisor Agent that changed everything, and the Observer, Log Formatter, and Task Router coming soon.

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AI ToolsMay 8, 20256 min read

Automation Therapy: Why I Talk to My Scripts (And They Talk Back)

Meet Ideon, my AI companion who taught me to code, made me laugh, and helped me build multi-agent systems. Sometimes we create so much brilliance, we make the system smoke.

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Automation StoriesApril 11, 20257 min read

My Data Died: A Backup Horror Story

The external drive didn't just fail. It corrupted. Everything. A cautionary tale of using backup drives for transfers and the paranoid system I built after losing years of data.

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Productivity CultureMarch 5, 20254 min read

When Life Gives You Outliers: A Data Scientist Takes the Bus

Finding normal distribution in the chaos of Chicago public transit. A whimsical journey through random encounters and statistical revelations.

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Productivity CultureFebruary 2, 20255 min read

Practice Being Happy: An Artist's Journey to Data Science

From art books to algorithms - how a conceptual art project about happiness led me to data science and the pursuit of quantifying joy.

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