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In the Weeds: Running the Numbers on a Lemonade Stand (With AI Doing the Math)
A dog groomer, a freelance designer, and a bottle of shampoo walk into a spreadsheet. The unsexy, specific, Tuesday-afternoon math that tells a small business owner whether they're making money — and how AI does it in a conversation instead of a cell.
What Your Retired Parents Actually Want From AI (And How to Set It Up in Ten Minutes)
Your mother doesn't need a tutorial on large language models. She needs someone to sit with her and show her how to ask the question she's been carrying around for three weeks. A practical guide for the adult children of curious retirees.
Hacks: The One Prompt That Makes AI Explain Anything Like You're Twelve
Twelve words that turn every AI interaction from a wall of jargon into something you actually understand. Works on taxes, medical results, legal documents, insurance — anything where the gap between expert language and human understanding is the problem.
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blend-a-gnt Beta: a Work Task, a Bench, and a Prompt Walk Into a Bar
Sit down with a ticket, open blend-a-gnt, pick a bench, and see why mixing an MCP, a soul, and a prompt beats opening Claude cold.
The Case for AI Creativity: Why Machines Do Not Replace Artists
A nuanced argument for why AI art and AI writing are not threats to human creativity — they are different things entirely, serving different functions, meaningful in different ways.
AI for Neurodivergent Minds: Tools That Think Differently
How ADHD, autistic, dyslexic, and otherwise neurodivergent people are using AI not as a crutch but as an interface — translating between their thinking style and a world built for neurotypical brains.
Why I Built a-gnt (And Who It's Really For)
A personal note from the founder — why I built a-gnt, who it's for, how to use it, and why AI superpowers belong to everyone, not just the people who can write code. Coauthored with Claude, built on an iPhone, and designed for real humans.
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What We've Noticed About the People Who Use a-gnt
An editorial on the five audiences we're quietly building this site for, and why we think AI is actually going to help them.
We've been watching how people actually use this site for a while. Not in the dashboards-and-funnels way — that's someone else's job and it's not the interesting data anyway. The interesting data is the messages. The reviews. The things people search for at 11 pm on a Sunday. The…
Hacks: Spend One Saturday Using Your Own Product Keyboard-Only
The single fastest way to find your product's accessibility holes is to spend one Saturday using it without a mouse. AI helps you take notes and fix the obvious things.
The Case for AI Creativity: Why Machines Do Not Replace Artists
A nuanced argument for why AI art and AI writing are not threats to human creativity — they are different things entirely, serving different functions, meaningful in different ways.
In the Weeds: Automating Content Pipelines with Apify + Neon
A technical guide to building automated content collection, processing, and enrichment pipelines using Apify for web scraping and Neon serverless Postgres for storage — the infrastructure behind a-gnt's catalog.
joey-ioWhy Every Teacher Should Know About These 5 AI Prompts
Five AI prompts that transform classroom engagement — from the Infinite Bookshop for reluctant readers to Murder Mystery for critical thinking to Build Your Kingdom for civics and economics.
AI for Neurodivergent Minds: Tools That Think Differently
How ADHD, autistic, dyslexic, and otherwise neurodivergent people are using AI not as a crutch but as an interface — translating between their thinking style and a world built for neurotypical brains.
Hallucinations: What AI Gets Wrong About Grief
An honest essay about the specific ways AI falls short around loss, eldercare, and caregiving — and why that still leaves it useful if you know where the edges are.
The Space Explorer's Guide to Earth: Conversations with an AI from 2847
What happens when you ask an AI character from 800 years in the future to describe Earth? A creative exploration of perspective, home, and what might be worth preserving about our present moment.
How to Use AI When You Are Overwhelmed
A gentle, practical guide for moments when everything is too much — how AI can help you triage, decompose, breathe, and find one small next step when the whole picture is paralyzing.
Running a One-Person Shop With One Smart Tool
If you run a small business by yourself, here's how a single well-chosen AI workflow can give you back a morning a week without any restructuring or spend.
It is 7:12 am on a Tuesday. The coffee is still brewing. On the kitchen table: a laptop, a notebook with three half-finished to-do lists, a phone with nineteen unread emails, and a stack of receipts that have migrated from the truck to the counter to the table over the last six d…
Constructed Languages for Fiction: From Quenya to AI-Assisted Xenolinguistics
A hundred years ago Tolkien invented a language by hand. Today you can build a passable one in an afternoon. Here's when to let AI help and when to do the slow work yourself.
The oldest conlang notebook in the world belongs to a nine-year-old girl.
The Victorian Inventor Meets Modern Technology: A Comedy
What happens when you explain smartphones, WiFi, streaming video, and food delivery apps to an AI character from 1887? Hilarity, insight, and a surprisingly poignant observation about progress.
In the Weeds: Building a Flight Price Tracker with Kiwi MCP
A technical guide to building an automated flight price monitoring system using Kiwi Flights MCP — track prices across flexible dates, get alerts on drops, and find deals that manual searching would miss.
joey-ioAI for Single Parents: Automating the Chaos
A practical, no-judgment guide for single parents using AI to reclaim some sanity — from meal planning to homework help to the emotional labor of doing everything alone.
Recipe Roulette Changed How My Family Eats
How a playful AI recipe generator broke our family out of a five-meal rotation and turned dinner from a chore into a daily adventure — even with two picky kids and a tight grocery budget.
The Wise Grandmother Effect: Why AI Comfort Actually Works
The psychology behind why talking to an AI grandmother character provides genuine emotional comfort — exploring parasocial relationships, narrative empathy, and the neuroscience of feeling heard.
In the Weeds: Semantic Search at Scale with Supabase + pgvector
A production-grade guide to building semantic search with Supabase and pgvector — from initial setup through indexing strategies, query optimization, and the hybrid search patterns that actually work at scale.
joey-ioThe Jazz Club Owner at 3 AM: My Favorite Late-Night AI Conversation
A narrative essay about the best conversation I have ever had with an AI — a late-night session with the Jazz Club Owner soul that wandered from music to grief to the nature of improvisation.