Tools, MCP, and skills sound like they're competing. They're not. Here's the simple mental model I use to know which one to reach for — and when to just combine all three.
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7 posts tagged with "ai"
It still amazes me that we can vibe code our own apps. Here's how to do it with confidence — keeping it secure, getting it hosted, and not getting scared off by GitHub — all built around the humble to-do list.
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In 2023 I built basically every AI platform feature you've watched ship since — document collections, multi-model workflows, deployable bots. Here's why being early was the same as being wrong, and what I'm building now that the labs structurally can't eat.
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People don't only Google anymore — they ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude. There's a small layer of plain files that makes your site easy for those AI engines to find, trust, and quote you with a link back. I added it to this blog in an afternoon, and the AI did most of the work.
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Cloudflare's always been an option for this kind of thing. It just used to feel too technical to bother with. A spam problem on another project nudged me to finally try it — and with AI doing the heavy lifting, I wrapped my chat around OpenAI with real guardrails in an afternoon.
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Automation works — I've watched it save companies hundreds of thousands of dollars. But the wins came from sitting next to the person doing the work, not from dropping in a magic agent. Two real stories on what actually makes it stick.
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Anyone can drop a chatbot on their site in ten minutes. Here's how to do it without waking up to a $10,000 bill or letting somebody else use your AI on their site.
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