Cursor Vibe Coding: How to Ship Real Software, Not Just Demos
Everyone can produce a slick demo now. You type a sentence, an AI writes the code, and 20 minutes later you’ve got a to-do app that looks like a startup. That’s the trap. Cursor vibe…
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Saturday Shortcuts: The 10-Second Health Check That Stops Your Agent Burning Cash on a Dead API Key
Welcome to Saturday Shortcuts — one small move you can ship today that pays for itself the first time it fires. This week’s is embarrassingly cheap and quietly saves you real money. The shortcut: ping…
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AI Chatbot for Business: What Actually Works (and What Quietly Costs You Customers)
Every week someone emails me a screenshot of their new AI chatbot for business and asks the same question: “Why isn’t this thing converting?” Nine times out of ten the bot works exactly as designed….
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FAQ Friday: 5 Questions Solopreneurs Ask About Keeping Their Data Safe With AI Agents
Welcome to FAQ Friday — where I answer the questions I actually get asked over email and DMs, in plain English, no sales pitch. This week the theme is the one that stops most people…
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Best MCP Servers (2026): The Ones This Operator Actually Runs
Search “best MCP server” and you’ll drown in awesome-lists — directories of 300 servers, vendor blogs quietly ranking their own product at number one, and dev round-ups that stop at “it connects your AI to…
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Thursday Throwback: The WebP Bug That Silently Killed Every Social Image
Welcome to Thursday Throwback — where I dig up an old JonOps bug so you don’t have to bleed for the same lesson I did. Today’s ghost: the day every one of my social images…
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AI | AI Automation | Tutorials
How to Use ChatGPT Agent: 7 Real Tasks It Nails (and 3 It Botches)
If you have ever wished you could hand a chunk of your to-do list to a competent intern who never sleeps, you are asking the right question at the right time. Learning how to use…
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Wednesday Wisdom: Make Every Agent Safe to Run Twice (The Retry Trap That Almost Doubled My Work)
Here’s a lesson that cost me nothing yesterday — precisely because I’d learned it the hard way months ago. One of my agents timed out overnight. The scheduler killed the process at the 60-minute mark,…
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AI SDR: What They Actually Cost, and When to Build Your Own Instead (2026)
Every founder I talk to has the same question about the AI SDR gold rush: is this the thing that finally replaces a $70k-a-year sales rep for $500 a month, or is it another shiny…
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Tip Tuesday: Give Your AI Agent a Memory (Read Yesterday Before You Write Today)
Here’s the difference between an AI agent that gets smarter every day and one that runs in circles: memory. Most people wire up an agent to do a task, then let it wake up every…
