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How I Write With AI (Without Creating Slop)
The best performing post on this blog is a 20,000 word tome on the Google Agent Development Kit. Granted, maybe half the words are code samples, but without AI this would have taken me weeks to write. With AI, it was just a few days. Great articles, the kind that get shared in Slack channels,…
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The Make.com Automation Guide for GTM and Operations
The CEO of Zapier recently announced that they have more AI agents working for them than human employees. Now that sounds exciting and terrifying but the truth is most of the “agents” he listed out are really just simple automations (with some AI sprinkled in). He is, after all, promoting his own company, which he…
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Coding with Cursor: a Beginner’s Guide
I was at Web Summit Vancouver last week, a tech conference where the only topic of every conversation was, surprise surprise, AI! As someone who has been in the space for years, well before the ChatGPT boom, I was excited to talk to my fellow nerds about the latest tools and tech. And I was…
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The Executive’s Guide to Agentic AI
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently declared that “we’ve entered the era of AI agents,” highlighting that AI models are now more capable and efficient thanks to groundbreaking advancements in reasoning and memory. Google recently announced a whole slew of new agentic tools in their recent I/O conference. Every major tech company is going all in…
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The Executive’s Guide to Upskilling Your Workforce for AI
Recent research by McKinsey shows that 31% of the workforce will require retraining or reskilling within the next three years. With companies rushing to become AI-first, I’m not surprised. In fact, I think that number should be higher. Much like digital literacy became essential in the early 2000s, AI literacy is the new baseline for…
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The Ultimate Guide to Designing And Building AI Agents
At the start of this year, Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, said 2025 will be the year of the AI agent. Many high-profile companies like Shopify and Duolingo have reinvented themselves with AI at it score, building internal systems and agents to automate processes and reduce headcount. I spent the last 3 years running a…
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Vibe Coding SaaS MVPs: The Ultimate Guide
I’ll be honest with you, I don’t actually like the term “vibe coding” because it makes it sound easy and error-free. Like oh I’m just going with the vibes, let’s see where it takes us. But the reality is it takes a lot of back and forth, restarts, research, repeats, re-everything to build and ship…
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GPT’s Glazing And The Danger of AI Agreeableness
How would you react if your friend or a family member said they were going to invest all their time and money into building a company called Poober, the Uber for picking up dog poop? Think about it, you’re walking your dog and it lays down a mini-mountain of the brown stuff. The smell alone…
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ChatGPT o3 – The First Reasoning Agentic Model
Yesterday OpenAI rolled out o3, the first reasoning model that is also agentic. Reasoning models have been around for a while, and o3 has been around in it’s mini version as well. However, the full release yesterday showed us a model that not only reasons, but can browse, run Python, and look at your images…
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The Complete Guide to Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK)
The Agent Development Kit (ADK) is a new open-source framework released by Google that simplifies the end-to-end development of intelligent agent systems. Do we really need another agent framework? Probably not. But hey, Google’s been on a roll and Gemini 2.5 Pro is my new favourite model (we’ll see if this changes next month), so…