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The archive

What is actually happening in AI, and what it changes for a business the size of yours. Written to a standing brief, checked before it ships, and sourced so you can go verify it yourself. Search it, filter it, argue with it.

4 articles in the archive / latest 12 Jul 2026

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Operator answers

AI Without the Hype

12 Jul 2026

Most AI content is either breathless hype or quiet fear. Here is how I actually think about what these tools do, and a simple test for telling a parlor trick from something worth building on.

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Build, Don't Buy: When to Make It Yourself

08 Jul 2026

The line between subscribing to another tool and building your own just moved, hard, and most people have not noticed. Here is the framework I use to decide.

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What Vibe Coding Actually Is

04 Jul 2026

Vibe coding gets mocked as clicking buttons until something works. That is not what it is. Here is what it actually takes to ship real software with AI, from someone who does it.

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Honest Marketing Metrics in the AI Era

28 Jun 2026

AI flooded the web with content and quietly broke a lot of the metrics we trusted. Here are the signals I still believe, and the vanity numbers I stopped reporting.

The five series

The archive is written on a schedule, in five running series. Each one has a standing brief, and each one answers to it.

01 / Operator answers

Operator answers

Real questions small-business operators are actually asking, answered straight. The house series.

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02 / The daily read

The daily read

The last 24 hours in AI, filtered hard for the things that change what a small business can do.

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03 / Repo of the day

Repo of the day

One open-source project worth taking advantage of, explained as a thing you could use, not a thing to star.

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04 / Vibe coding weekly

Vibe coding weekly

The state of building software by describing it. What got better, what still breaks.

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05 / The monthly wrap

The monthly wrap

A month of AI and go-to-market, connected into something that still holds up six months later.

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