Summary In today's episode, I tackle the enterprise-level question of how to avoid replacing vendor lock-in with agentic platform lock-in by building local AI inference capabilities. Here's what this means for you. You'll gain pricing independence and operational control over your AI by owning inference hardware rather than depending solely on cloud providers like OpenAI…
All language is code, and writing is coding. Yesterday during the SmarterX AI Writer’s Summit, one of my session attendees said, after hearing me speak about using agentic AI to write a fiction novel: ‘But am I “writing” a trashy romance novel or am I “programming” one.’ ALL language is code, and writing is coding.…
Your company will probably be buying AI hardware at some point if you’re heavy users of it. I ran an assessment this morning in Opcode to see what Trust Insights Claude Code usage was for the last 30 days and see what we would have paid if we were on Enterprise instead of Max 20.…
Let’s talk about not supporting AI/big tech companies financially. It’s probably not realistic, if you are a working professional in a knowledge work job, to avoid big tech companies like Google, Microsoft, Meta, and other companies shoving AI down your throat. But like everything, you can reduce harm. First, almost all Big Tech is in…
Accessible = AI ready. A gentle reminder that if you create things that are WCAG 2.1 ready (web content accessibility guidelines), you are implicitly creating them to be AI-ready for agents, because AI agents use the same selectors (e.g. Playwright, browser automation) that assistive technology uses. For example, ARIA HTML labels? Perfect fodder for browser…
Summary In today's episode, I walk through Paperclip AI, the agentic control plane software, and demonstrate how it functions as a Jira-style project management system for autonomous AI agents. Here's what this means for you. You discover why thorough prompt planning up front saves massive token costs and produces far better results than launching tasks…
Here’s the irrefutable gold standard for measuring AI Visibility/GEO/whatever: ASK PEOPLE HOW THEY HEARD OF YOU. Marketers have spent the last 20 years becoming increasingly allergic to talking to real customers, probably because at many companies, if they did, they’d get an earful. So we’ve tried our hardest not to ever talk to real people.…
Summary In today's episode, I walk through how to automate resume and cover letter tailoring using Claude Desktop with Minimax as a third-party inference provider, so you can apply to jobs without burning out. Here's what this means for you. You can stand up an AI agent workflow that customizes each application to a specific…
To get the most out of AI, use AI as little as possible. This very contradictory statement does make sense. Generative AI has a tendency to reinvent the wheel. Every time you ask it to complete a task and you don’t provide tools for it to do so, it tends to write them from scratch.…
