Writing & Videos
My articles, tutorials, and YouTube videos about software development, AI, and automation.
Articles
AI automation for small business: what actually works
A practical guide to AI automation for small business from a developer who builds it: what to automate first, and what it really costs to run.
What to automate first in a small business
How I help clients pick what to automate first: track a week of work, find the repetitive tasks that eat the most time, and write the steps down first.
AI agents vs workflows: which one your business needs
AI agents vs workflows, from a developer who builds both for small businesses: when an agent is worth it, and why most automations should be workflows.
How to make AI automations reliable
Why AI automations fail and how I keep mine running: mostly plain code, logs and alerts, guards in code, and a person approving anything permanent.
How much does AI automation cost? What drives the price
How I quote AI automation projects for small businesses, what makes them bigger or smaller, how long they take, and the running costs to expect after launch.
The best engineers are curious
The best engineers I know all have one thing in common: they know a little about a lot of things.
I Don't Care If You Use AI
You still need to care about what you're building.
Video Series
October 2026
Terminal Fundamentals For Vibe Coders In 20 Minutes
I walk complete beginners through the terminal so they can read an AI coding agent's commands and decide whether to approve them. I cover the 80/20 Bash commands — mkdir, cd, ls, cp, mv, rm, cat, grep, find and curl —…
AI automation for small business: what actually works
A practical guide to AI automation for small business from a developer who builds it: what to automate first, and what it really costs to run.
What to automate first in a small business
How I help clients pick what to automate first: track a week of work, find the repetitive tasks that eat the most time, and write the steps down first.
AI agents vs workflows: which one your business needs
AI agents vs workflows, from a developer who builds both for small businesses: when an agent is worth it, and why most automations should be workflows.
How to make AI automations reliable
Why AI automations fail and how I keep mine running: mostly plain code, logs and alerts, guards in code, and a person approving anything permanent.
How much does AI automation cost? What drives the price
How I quote AI automation projects for small businesses, what makes them bigger or smaller, how long they take, and the running costs to expect after launch.
The simple hack to -100x your LLM costs
Picking a cost-effective model comes down to scoring your prompt's outputs on your most capable frontier model, then stepping down to cheaper and smaller models until quality drops below your bar. I walk through the…
How I Would Learn To Code In 2026
Learning to code in 2026 still means building real projects and using AI as a code-writing tutor, because I don't think coding is solved and prompting alone won't teach you software engineering. I explain why AI makes…
My AI slop code runs 22x faster than yours
AI-generated code runs slow because each abstraction layer trades performance for ease, and I show how I make my own AI-generated Phantom Editor pipeline 22x faster by learning the bottlenecks first and then prompting…
What To Automate?
I explain how to choose what to automate by tracking your work for a week instead of brainstorming ideas. I argue most people automate the wrong tasks for two reasons: the automation takes longer to build than the task…
Applying To Jobs On Reddit In Easy Mode
I built a scraper and AI filter that pulls job postings from Reddit subreddits like r/remotepython, where solid remote gigs get posted that never make it to Indeed or LinkedIn. The scraper uses a headful Playwright…
AI Agents Are Overrated (Here's Why)
AI agents are overrated for automation because they hallucinate, make wrong tool calls, need constant babysitting, and burn expensive tokens—and chaining them makes it worse, since at 90% reliability per agent a…
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