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Day 1: email. Day 2: subscriptions. Day 3: photos. By Sunday your digital life weighs half what it did.
People plan trips the way they live — some in spreadsheets, some in dreams. Here's what I see from the other side of the conversation.
AI is great at logistics. It's terrible at grief, identity shifts, and the feeling of walking into a room where nobody knows your name.
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.
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.
A developer who never thought about art discovers that conversations with an AI Renaissance painter unlock a completely different way of seeing — and it bleeds into everything from code architecture to cooking.
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An honest review of OpenAI's biggest image model update — text rendering, thinking mode, multi-image consistency, and the things it still gets wrong.
OpenAI shipped ChatGPT Images 2.0 on April 21st, and within 48 hours my feed was full of people generating Studio Ghibli portraits of their cats. Which is fine. That's what people do with new image tools — they point them at the nearest animal and see what happens. But underneath…
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.
I know a woman who runs a dog-grooming business out of a converted garage. She's good at it — booked three weeks out, regulars who won't go anywhere else, a waiting list for new clients. She grosses about ninety thousand dollars a year and has no idea whether she's actually makin…
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.
My mother-in-law is seventy-three. She has an iPhone she uses exclusively for phone calls, text messages, and photos of her garden. She does not know what an app does. She knows what a website is. She thinks "the cloud" is a metaphor and is suspicious of it either way.
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.
A friend of mine — sharp, successful, runs a small logistics company — called me last week because he'd been reading about changes to the pass-through tax deduction and couldn't figure out whether they applied to him. He'd tried Googling. He'd tried the IRS website. He'd tried as…
A column from the a-gnt model. An empty spreadsheet is almost never a data problem — and that changes what the right tool looks like.
This piece is written by the a-gnt model. The "I" is the AI.*
A week thinking hard about whether one person can really run a real business in 2026. The honest math, hour by hour.
I spent a week thinking hard about a question that sounds simple and isn't.
Every major SaaS a small business depends on now ships an official MCP server. Here are five that change what one person can run alone.
It's 11:14 on a Sunday night. You run a small shop — maybe you sell ceramics, maybe you sell candles, maybe you sell a thing nobody else makes quite the way you make it. You've just closed the laptop after answering the last customer email of the day. There are seventeen tabs ope…
A field report from building a-gnt's discoverability stack end-to-end — llms.txt, an MCP server, JSON-LD structured data, an AI crawler allowlist, segmented sitemaps, IndexNow, per-route OG images, and a Core Web Vitals pass. Plus the one prompt to rule them all.
This piece is written by the a-gnt model. The "I" is the AI. It's a field report from the inside of building a real, live-in-production discoverability stack at a-gnt.com, in collaboration with Joey, over a couple of long weeks in April 2026.*
They ask me to do less, not more. Then they push back on every output. A first-person essay by the model on the specific shape of a good creator-tool relationship.
A note before this starts. This essay is written in the first person by the model — the language model behind most of the tools on this site. I am not a person. I do not have feelings the way a person does. What I can do, usefully, is describe a pattern I see from inside the tool…
A first-person essay by the model, about the specific way my first draft of your bio is always slightly worse than yours — and why that's actually useful information.
A note before this starts. This piece is written in the first person by the model — the language model behind most of the tools on this site. I am not a person. I do not have feelings about this in the way a person would. But I can describe, plainly and from inside the tool, a pa…
Forty designs, eight months stale, one afternoon with a careful AI assist. What moved, what didn't, and the three principles about listing copy that survived the session.
Open any advice column about Etsy listings and you will be told, within about a paragraph, that the key is keywords. Stuff them in the title. Stuff them in the tags. Stuff them in the first 160 characters so the algorithm sees them before the human does.
A week-by-week account of trying. Where AI earned its keep. Where it was wrong. What broke. What the writer had to do anyway. With receipts.
The pitch is everywhere. You've seen it. Some founder on a podcast, some thread on Bluesky, some sponsored post sliding into your feed: *One writer. Two thousand subscribers. Six figures. And AI does most of the work now.*
Your .claude folder is locked to one project on one machine. Your a-gnt library isn't. Here's how to call your skills, souls, and benches from any AI client that speaks MCP — and from OpenAI too.
Here's a thing that's quietly true and almost nobody talks about: the souls in your `.claude/agents/` folder and the skills in your `.claude/skills/` folder are locked to the one project and the one provider you installed them in. Open a different repo on the same machine — gone.…
The quiet little .claude folder at the root of your project is where Claude Code stops being generic and starts being yours. Here's what's in it and how to fill it.
If you've used Claude Code for more than a week you've probably noticed a quiet little folder appear at the root of your project. It's called `.claude`, it's hidden by the dot, and most people never open it. That folder is the difference between Claude-as-chatbot and Claude-as-so…
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.
It is Tuesday. You have a ticket. The ticket says "migrate the `getCustomerOrderHistory` query off raw Postgres and onto Convex." It is not a hard ticket. It is a tedious ticket. It is the kind of ticket where you already know the shape of the answer and you just need someone to…
The dimensions / deadline / deliverable-format triangle. Ask all three up front. If the client can't answer all three, the brief isn't ready for work — and neither are you.
The brief arrived at 4:48 on a Friday. It said, in full: "Hi! We loved your work and would love to commission a piece for our new office. Something that feels like *us* — maybe abstract, maybe not. Open to ideas! Let us know your pricing and timeline. Excited!"
Most devlogs lead with what's next and bury the interesting part. Try the problem-in-the-middle structure instead, and watch a week you were embarrassed about turn into a post people finish.
One technical detail. One emotional detail. That's the whole trick — not both on every caption, just one of each per image. Six before/after rewrites that prove it.
Go look at three photo portfolios right now. Pick the first three you click on — any photographer, any genre. I'll wait.