Posts tagged “ai-agents”

Replace Yourself Before Someone Else Does

If you're not slowly replacing yourself with AI agents in your own workflow, you're not doing it right.

The replacement conversation is framed as something that happens to you. Flip it. Here's what I've automated in my own workflow, the receipts, and the playbook.

Sorties: Fire Real Actions Straight From Your AI Chat

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

A Sortie turns a sentence in your AI chat into a real action. Fix a bug, message your team, fire an automation. Set it up once, fire it by name from anywhere, and your keys never touch the conversation.

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

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

A year ago I gave Claude a ROADMAP.md and called it my project manager. The post still ranks. The post is also out of date. Here is what Claude actually manages now.

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.

Checkout is next. The agent is the buyer now.

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

Every few months a new "second brain" build hits X. The pattern is real, the folder taxonomies are getting sharper. But every one of them stops in the same place: a markdown file. Here's the wall.

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 is a new BlackOps feature that compiles an entire Obsidian folder into a single context note your Claude Projects can read through MCP. No RAG. No scripts. Just everything Claude needs, in one place.

I Watched a YouTube Video. Claude Wrote This Post.

I didn't open a second tab. I didn't copy-paste anything. I had a thought, told Claude, and this post landed in my BlackOps queue. Here's exactly what happened.

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.

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.

Building a Customer Radar with OpenClaw

Instead of trying to get better at marketing, I built a system to notice patterns in real conversations. Here's how I used OpenClaw to replace guessing with observation.