AI

The words get used interchangeably, but an agent and a chatbot are fundamentally different things. Confusing them leads to building the wrong thing for the job.

One idea a week to a published issue in under an hour. The boring system behind a newsletter I never dread sending.

Free AI tools aren't free. The price just shows up somewhere other than your invoice. Here's where to look — and when upgrading is genuinely worth it.

The label 'AI agent' is doing a lot of heavy lifting in 2026. I went through fifty of them with a checklist. Here's how to spot the real ones.

Automation didn't just save time. It magnified every flaw I had first. The lessons I wish someone had told me before I started.

Behind a lot of lean, profitable companies is the same small stack of AI tools. Here's what's actually running the show.

It isn't prompting tricks or technical chops. It's something older and more boring — and it's the real divide between AI winners and the disappointed.

One general chatbot trying to do everything is mediocre at all of it. A small team of focused assistants, each with one job, runs circles around it.

Almost every first agent deployment disappoints. The reasons are boringly predictable, which is good news: predictable means preventable.

They sound interchangeable. They're not. Buying one when you need the other is how teams waste budgets and blame the technology.

I gave an AI agent the keys to my tasks for a month. Some of it was magic. Some of it was a slow-motion car crash. Here's the honest ledger.

Copy, calendar, and analysis — all handed to AI for 30 days. The results were better than I expected, and worse where I got lazy.