Eighteen distinct root causes from running generative AI tools in production: every failure, what caused it, and the general rule it produced. None of them were the model's fault. All of them stopped the AI from working.
An AI assistant for business is only as useful as your ability to answer it. Thirty-odd agent windows run on a Mac at home; I'm not at home. The hard part isn't the small screen — it's that two ways of connecting look identical and behave in opposite ways when you exit.
Most AI productivity tools are one more app to alt-tab to. These two are the opposite: a terminal file browser and a real Chrome that live inside the workspace your agents already run in. What broke on three machines, what we pinned, and the half-hour version.
SEO, growth, and demand generation
84 articles, 225 views, 0 likes. A day spent building the distribution layer that publishing alone never provides: four reusable systems for repurposing, internal linking, and resurfacing old work, plus the prompts behind each one.
Work that nobody complains about and nobody owns is the work that never gets done. Nothing breaks when one is missing, which is exactly why a hundred go missing. That shape of task is the clearest signal to automate business processes, and 155-character descriptions are the textbook case.
A topic plus a deadline is not a brief. It is an invitation to guess, and every writer guesses differently. Settling the answerable question before anyone writes is the cheapest quality control there is, and the one input a company can standardise when it moves to automate business processes.
SEO is where workflow automation pays off fastest: 112 CLI commands covering keyword research, site audits, indexing, link checks, GEO optimization, and AI search visibility — organized by website lifecycle stage, so you run the five that matter now instead of all 112.
When I rebuild one with AI agents, you get the write-up — including the parts that didn't work. No weekly roundup, no "5 tools you need."