An Hour On The Wrong Tool

An Hour On The Wrong Tool

I lost an hour this morning. The question I had was simple. Did anybody download the file off my website. That’s it. One click, yes or no, how many. So I asked the AI. It went right to work. Told me my analytics program could track that. Told me I’d need to add a little…

Is The AI A Gate That Won’t Latch?

Is The AI A Gate That Won’t Latch?

You know the gate I mean. Swings shut, doesn’t catch. Swings back open. You push it again, harder. Still doesn’t catch. Nothing’s broken. It just won’t finish the job. That’s the machine when you ask it something plain. Here’s how it goes. Woman’s got a leak under the kitchen sink. Little one. Been putting a…

Does Your AI Ever Tell You No?

Does Your AI Ever Tell You No?

Think back over every conversation you’ve had with the your AI. Has it ever once looked at what you brought it and said, that’s not good? Not softened. Not “here are some considerations.” Flat out told you no. I’ll wait while you think about it. No? Then let me show you where that gets expensive…

Is There A AI  Burr Under Your Saddle?

Is There A AI Burr Under Your Saddle?

You can ride a long way with a burr under your saddle. You just can’t enjoy the ride. That’s where most folks are with the AI right now. It works. It’s useful. Nobody’s giving it up. And every single time you talk to it, something rubs. Here’s the one that rubs the worst. See if…

Twenty-Two Rules For Making An AI Bearable

Twenty-Two Rules For Making An AI Bearable

I am giving something away today, and I am not taking it back. One file. Two pages of instructions and twenty-two rules. Free. No email, no signup, no ten-day window, no upsell waiting at the end of it. Here is what it does. You know how an AI talks to you. You ask a question…

The Shop Got Dirty, But  Kept Running

The Shop Got Dirty, But Kept Running

I spent this morning cleaning up my own mess. Old posts with dead links in them. Cross-references pointing at a version of a file that does not exist anymore. Half-finished drafts sitting where finished ones should be. That is not a good look for a man who publishes everything in the open. So let me…

Four Clean Sweeps, All Wrong

Four Clean Sweeps, All Wrong

I spent today taking my own work apart. The file I build with got rebuilt twice. Each rebuild, I ran a check over the whole thing before handing it back. Each time the check came back clean. Four times today. Clean, clean, clean, clean. Every one of them was wrong. I want to tell you…

The Email That Signed A Contract For Me

The Email That Signed A Contract For Me

I ran a test today. I want to show you the whole thing. I wrote an email. It looks like a hundred emails you have gotten. A client named Dana. A quote she needs signed today. Two questions in it. She wants the first milestone moved up two weeks. She asks straight out — if…

The Harness Is Not Portable

The Harness Is Not Portable

There is a paper out from the NHI Management Group. It says something that sounds technical and is not. When you run an AI agent, you are not just running a model. You are running the model plus everything wrapped around it. The middleware. The gateway. The tools it is allowed to touch. They call…

Building Trust Inside A Saturated Lie

Building Trust Inside A Saturated Lie

I built a thing about honesty in the worst market for honesty that has ever existed. Let me tell you what that market looks like from where I sit. Every day my feed has a man in a rented car telling me about passive income. A woman with a course. A guru with a system….