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Foundational AI: Do's and Don'ts
The automation has been parked since February because somebody said the CRM has to be clean first. It reads four fields and touches about three thousand records. The cleanup that actually gates it is an afternoon, and the four-week version was never going to hold anyway.
AI News
Amazon's own pricing example had 200,000 scanned form pages read by three different people each, every month, for $12,200 and no hiring. On September 30 that stops being something you can buy, and the reason is not that it stopped working.
Foundational AI: Do's and Don'ts
The plumbing that lets an AI agent spend your company's money unattended is now a versioned spec with sixty payment companies behind it. The rule about who eats a bad purchase is not written yet, and the protocol's own documentation says so in plain language.
Git Articles
A subscription editing agency charges $999 a month for one or two short videos a week, and its intake form still asks you to supply the raw footage. MoneyPrinterTurbo builds the whole thing from one sentence, MIT licensed, and Saturday's release taught it to generate the footage instead of borrowing it.
Foundational AI: Do's and Don'ts
The email is drafted. Everyone is expected to be using AI by October, and yes, we will ask about it at review time. Send it and a number comes back. The number is wrong, and now it lives in a personnel file.
Git Articles
Ten people on Superhuman and Linear alone costs $5,880 a year, and all it buys is an inbox and a task board. Macro does email, chat, docs, tasks, calls and CRM out of one app for $40 a seat, and it moved to the AGPL in May, which means the escape hatch is written into the license.
Foundational AI: Do's and Don'ts
Two of last month's calls said they found you by asking an assistant. The settings that decide whether your name can appear at all are free and take an afternoon, and the thing being sold to you as the fix is documented by Google as not being a requirement.
The daily build
A metal fab shop owner went off grid for five days to see if his business could survive without him. It didn't make it past Tuesday. So today's build isn't a knowledge base, it's a ten-second habit for catching the thing only one person knows, before it turns into an outage.
The daily build
Most automation advice tells you where to start in theory. We built an in-browser triage instrument that ranks repetitive operational tasks by annual cost, fragility under load, and rule consistency.
AI News
Every content-safety tool on the market ships with somebody else's list of what counts as unsafe, and not one of those lists has "never quote a flat rate on a job that needs a site visit" on it. Mistral released a 3B model on Tuesday, free, that takes your rule as an English sentence at the moment you ask.
Foundational AI: Do's and Don'ts
It is not the row count. A spreadsheet stops being good enough the moment two people can both be right about the same number, and that day arrives years before the file gets slow.
AI News
The EU transparency rules went live on Sunday, and for a normal small business the whole obligation is about forty minutes of unpaid work. The part nobody is saying out loud: the moment you build the customer-facing bot yourself instead of buying one, the duty moves off your vendor's desk and onto yours.
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