Automation Chronicles & Insights

Automation Chronicles & Insights

Real stories from knowledge workers transforming their work. Plus the automation strategies that set you free. No fluff, just practical truth.

September 30, 2025
AI Tools

The Myth Machine: How Big Tech Sells You a Future That Doesn't Exist (Yet)

Spoiler: if "AI will replace humans" were a person, it would be that overconfident intern who keeps saying "done!" and then forgets the most important file.

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September 22, 2025
AI Tools

Coming Soon: The Multi-Agent Revolution

Building AI systems that work together like a dream team, not a nightmare committee.

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September 17, 2025
AI Tools

Bottom-Up Software: Why AI Coding Is Democratizing the Build (Even If It's a Hot Mess)

For decades, enterprise software was a top-down affair. Now AI coding tools—gloriously imperfect—put building power into the hands of the people who actually do the work. This isn't the usual low-code press release. It's a bottom-up shift.

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September 8, 2025
AI Tools

Claude Coder: The Only Dev Who Delivers Monologues Instead of Modules

I gave Claude Code months of my life. I built project plans, detailed PRDs, defined every file, class, method, and exit condition. Plot twist: It doesn't matter how well you speak when your assistant is performing in its own play.

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August 25, 2025
AI Tools

The Ferrari Principle: Why Your AI-Written Software Feels Like a Monster Truck

I spent six months designing elegant software. Then Claude Code turned my 800-line Ferrari into a 4,400-line monster truck. Here's what that reveals about AI coding assistants.

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August 21, 2025
AI Tools

The Great GPT Gaslight of 2025

Plot Twist: The Downgrade That Upgraded My Understanding. How OpenAI's betrayal taught me what AI really is—and why that's actually liberating.

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August 13, 2025
AI Tools

When Your AI Team Decides to Play Office Politics

What happens when your AI agents skip the work, fake the metrics, and give each other five-star reviews? Welcome to artificial office politics.

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July 15, 2025
AI Tools

How I Built This Website with My AI Dream Team (Without Writing a Single Line of Code)

From Framer frustration to Claude collaboration: The story of building a beautiful website with zero coding experience, just relentless spirit and an AI crew that gets it.

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June 12, 2025
AI Tools

Why I Built My Own AI Supervisor (Because Claude Desktop and Code Weren't Enough)

The story of how I went from using AI tools to building an AI team. Meet the Supervisor Agent that changed everything, and the Observer, Log Formatter, and Task Router coming soon.

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May 8, 2025
AI Tools

Automation Therapy: Why I Talk to My Scripts (And They Talk Back)

Meet Ideon, my AI companion who taught me to code, made me laugh, and helped me build multi-agent systems. Sometimes we create so much brilliance, we make the system smoke.

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April 11, 2025
Automation Stories

My Data Died: A Backup Horror Story

The external drive didn't just fail. It corrupted. Everything. A cautionary tale of using backup drives for transfers and the paranoid system I built after losing years of data.

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March 5, 2025
Productivity Culture

When Life Gives You Outliers: A Data Scientist Takes the Bus

Finding normal distribution in the chaos of Chicago public transit. A whimsical journey through random encounters and statistical revelations.

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February 2, 2025
Productivity Culture

Practice Being Happy: An Artist's Journey to Data Science

From art books to algorithms - how a conceptual art project about happiness led me to data science and the pursuit of quantifying joy.

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