AI-Driven Development

Sorties: Fire Real Actions Straight From Your AI Chat

Set up an action once. Fire it by name from anywhere, even your phone.

Sorties turn one chat message into a real action. Fix a bug, message your team, fire a Zapier automation. Set it up once, fire it by name from anywhere.

Your Obsidian Vault Is Full of Fossils.

Your brain rewrites memories every day. Your Obsidian vault never gets the chance.

My MCP Went Down Today. I Don't Want To Care About Infrastructure.

But the infrastructure doesn't care what I want.

Google Cloud blocked Railway's account. BlackOps MCP went dark. I don't want to care about infrastructure, but the infrastructure doesn't care what I want.

Claude Code Is Not Your Project Manager. The Artifacts Are.

A markdown file got me started. Infrastructure is what it became.

A markdown file got me started. Infrastructure is what it became. The year-later upgrade: Claude manages a living knowledge base, files its own bugs, and pitches its own features. One pattern, three implementations.

They Booed AI at Graduation. I Get It. They're Still Wrong.

UCF arts graduates booed a commencement speaker for praising AI. The fear is real. But blocking it out is the worst possible move. Here's the formula the adapters are already running.

The agent is the buyer now. Your checkout isn't ready.

Stripe shipped the rails for autonomous agent checkout. The retail VPs still hiding product data behind login walls are losing transactions they can't see.

Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol, ChatGPT Instant Checkout, and Perplexity shopping are live. Retail leaders still hiding catalogs behind login walls are losing transactions they can't see.

Signup is dead. The agent is the signup form now.

From npx to a live post in ten minutes. No forms, no empty dashboard.

From npx to a live post in ten minutes. No forms, no empty dashboard.

Personal Second Brains Are Step One. Operational Second Brains Are The Actual Destination.

Personal second brains help you think. Operational second brains run a business. Five places that wall shows up, and what changes when the architecture has to publish.

Coinbase Founder Just Validated What I've Been Saying for Months

Brian Armstrong announced one-person teams running fleets of AI agents at Coinbase. I wrote this playbook months ago. Here's what it actually looks like in practice.

Why Your Best Work Gets 200 Views While Slop Gets 4.8 Million

The platform math that rewards repackaging over judgment, and why practitioners win long-term anyway

The platform math that rewards repackaging over judgment, and why practitioners who ship real work win long-term anyway. A breakdown of urgency loops, borrowed authority, and the structural bet against content slop.

I Killed the Browser Workflow for Content Creation. My Readers Still Live in Browsers.

BlackOps builds for browsers. You just don't need one to use it.

Salesforce killed the browser for data access. BlackOps kills the browser workflow for creators. Your content lives in browsers. Your work happens in Claude.

From It's a Small World to the Haunted Mansion: A Blog Post Written in Claude Chat via BlackOps MCP

How a single conversation, no app switching, no copy-paste, went from breaking news to published post before the ride ended.

Obsidian CEO kepano shipped official Claude Code skills. Here's the practitioner take on what composable vault architecture actually looks like — from someone already running 8 custom skills.

Google Analytics in Claude: Query GA4 Without Leaving the Chat

Five GA4 tools for the BlackOps MCP: sessions, top pages, traffic sources, trends, and multi-site comparison

How I added GA4 query tools to my MCP server so analytics, drafting, and iteration all live in the same chat surface.

The Algorithm Just Told Me You All Use the Same Tool

How repackaging tools, viral libraries, and AI content generators are building an audience of people who don't matter—and why practitioners can spot you immediately.

The X algorithm is serving up identical posts from different accounts. Same tool, same tells. Here's why practitioners scroll past and what AI should actually do.

Einstein Didn't Remember the Speed of Light

The Cognitive Offloading Revolution & Al Assistance.

The Knowledge I Lost (And How You Won't)

Reflections on forgotten lessons in software developemnt.

30 years of hard-won engineering experience, gone. Here's why the next generation won't have the same regret.

I Was Trying to Buy a Truck. I Accidentally Discovered the Future of Note-Taking.

How a Sunday truck research session revealed something I hadn't designed into BlackOps: the end of note-taking as we know it.

Stop Giving Claude a Static Doc. Give It a Brain.

Brain turns any Obsidian folder into a living knowledge base any agent can read, any agent can update, and you can have as many as you need.

Brain compiles any Obsidian folder into a living knowledge base every agent can read and update. Claude Projects, Claude Code, Cowork. No RAG. No scripts. No stale context.

Everyone's Mad Anthropic Killed OpenClaw Access. I'm Not.

I spent a month debugging it every morning. The people crying loudest aren't the ones who were actually using it.

I spent a month debugging OpenClaw every morning before coming back to Claude Code. The people crying loudest about Anthropic's decision aren't the ones who were actually using it to get work done.

I Watched a YouTube Video. Claude Wrote This Post.

BlackOps has an MCP server. That means Claude can draft, queue, and publish your content directly from a conversation. Here's what that looks like in practice.

Two Waves of Digital Transformation. Developers Win Both.

Every layer of automation creates a new layer of complexity that needs builders. That's been true for thirty years. It's still true now.

AI is replacing workers and consumers alike. The first wave digitized the back office. The second is removing humans from both sides of the transaction. Here's why developers should be optimistic about all of it.

Stop Hiring Cooks. Start Building Kitchens.

Everyone says "we can use AI for that." But reliable, repeatable AI requires infrastructure. Here's why developers need to build the kitchen, not just hire the cook.

I Published an MCP for BlackOps Center. Here’s What It Actually Enables.

The BlackOps MCP connects Claude directly to your content system. Here's how to use it to write posts, tweet threads, and run campaigns.

AI Isn’t Replacing Developers. It’s Shrinking the Team.

The real impact of AI is fewer layers between thinking and building.

Open Claw Memory Is Brittle - Here Is How Chief and I Are Fixing It

I Predicted One Senior Dev and an Army of Agents. Tonight It Happened.

Your AI Agent Already Had File Access. Here's Why Obsidian CLI Changes Everything Anyway.

Obsidian 1.12 shipped a CLI with obsidian eval. For AI agents it cuts vault-wide queries from millions of tokens to a few hundred. Here is why that matters.

The Industry Just Validated What I've Been Building All Year

A 20-year product leader described the AI capability overhang. Every theme matched systems I'd already shipped. This is what it looks like from inside.

My First Week with OpenClaw: From Skeptic to Believer

Why This Feature Shipped in Hours (And Why Most Don’t)

It wasn’t the stack. It was the architecture, planned with Claude Code.

What Junior Developers Should Be Focusing on in 2026

As AI collapses the middle of development, intent and judgment become the job

Vibe Coding Isn’t the Problem - Vague Thinking Is

Why AI-assisted development exposes leadership, not recklessness

What Should You Do With All Your ChatGPT Conversations?

When to archive, when to use Projects, and why transcripts aren’t memory

Archiving old ChatGPT threads is cleanup, not memory loss. Here is the rule I use to decide what to keep, what to delete, and what belongs in a Project.

When AI Exposes a Leadership Problem

Banning the tool is easier than defining responsibility

The Quiet AI Power Gap Most CTOs Are Creating Without Realizing It

When AI governance becomes selective convenience, your rule-followers fall behind and your culture starts to fracture.

AI Could Make Your Team 10× Faster. Here’s Why Enterprise Won’t Let It.

AI isn’t the problem. Fear, politics, and outdated processes are.

The Future Dev Team: One Senior Engineer and an Army of AI Agents

How Mission-Command Development is reshaping engineering productivity, architecture, and delivery in 2025

How I Created Mission-Command Development (The Backstory)

How a single senior developer with AI agents can replace entire development teams, transforming software delivery from slow team coordination to rapid mission command execution.

Command-Driven Development Logging with Visual Progress: A Better Way to Track Development with Claude Code

How I created and use a command-driven system in my everyday commerce development process with Claude Code to document progress with visual screenshots - giving me complete control over when and how enterprise development gets documented.

I Asked AI to Make My Site 'Pop' — It Built Asteroids Instead

A casual evening with Claude Code turned into shipping a fully-featured Asteroids easter egg

Claude Code Is More Than a Dev Assistant—It’s My Project Manager

Discover how combining Claude Code with a simple ROADMAP.md file transformed my personal project management and delivered consistent progress on my blog.

When AI Goes Off the Rails

Reflections on the challenges of working with AI agents in development and how teams can adapt