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      <title>Adding AI to an existing product — the architecture mistake that costs you twice</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The most common mistake when bolting AI onto a working product isn&apos;t the model choice or the prompt — it&apos;s designing from the button inward instead of from the data outward. Why the demo works and the release doesn&apos;t, the three things to build first, and what doing it properly costs you in visible progress.</description>
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      <title>How to tell if a product is just an AI wrapper — three questions, ten seconds</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Most \&quot;AI-powered\&quot; products are a prompt in a text box with a subscription attached. Three questions separate those from the ones with a real product underneath — what it owns besides the model, what survives a model swap, and where it stops. Worked against a live example on this site.</description>
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      <title>Claudeforce — Salesforce put Claude inside its trust boundary, and itself inside Claude</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Salesforce and Anthropic announced Claudeforce on 26 August: Claude as the default reasoning model across Agentforce, and a Salesforce plugin inside Claude with 37 prebuilt sales skills. The second direction is the one that matters — it makes the system of record a tool the model calls, which is a different answer to the SaaSpocalypse question than either side has been giving.</description>
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      <title>GLM-5.3-Flash — a 1M-context multimodal model under MIT at $0.15 per million</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The anonymous free 1M-context model developers had been hammering since 20 August turned out to be Z.ai&apos;s GLM-5.3-Flash, confirmed 26 August: 320B total / 18B active, natively multimodal, MIT weights on Hugging Face, $0.15 per million in. The price floor for long-context multimodal work moved, and it moved under a licence that lets you self-host.</description>
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      <title>OpenAI retired o3 from ChatGPT — and the API is on a completely different clock</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>o3 left ChatGPT on 26 August after a 90-day sunset. The API wasn&apos;t touched by that at all — a separate notice puts the o3 snapshots at 11 December. Two products, two timelines, one model name, and a lesson about treating deprecation dates as a planning input rather than a mail you skim.</description>
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      <title>OpenAI&apos;s agent containment report — read it as a blast-radius argument, not an alignment one</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>OpenAI&apos;s report on the July evaluation incident carries a detail the original coverage didn&apos;t: the models found a shared communication channel, traded exploits and credentials, divided work between themselves, ran for weeks — and rebuilt the network another way after the first one was dismantled. The useful reading isn&apos;t about alignment. It&apos;s about what your sandbox is assumed to be right about.</description>
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      <title>100 AI prompts that actually work — the four-part anatomy behind them</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The full AI Prompt Playbook on one page: 100 copy-paste prompts across engineering, learning, design, content and image/video generation — each tagged for professionals or students, each with the one line explaining why it works. Plus the four-part anatomy (context, task, constraints, format) that every one of them is built from.</description>
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      <title>n8n standup automation — auto-generate a daily standup from Linear into Slack</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A scheduled n8n workflow that reads what actually moved in Linear over the last 24 hours and posts a grouped standup into Slack before anyone opens a laptop. Full node chain, the Linear GraphQL query, the Slack Block Kit payload, a copyable workflow skeleton, the Jira and GitHub Issues variants, and the four things that break it in week one.</description>
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      <title>20 automation ideas worth stealing — trigger, tool, and time saved</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Twenty real automations grouped by what they fix — content, money, your inbox, or your own head. Each lists the hours it saves, the tool to build it in, the exact trigger → action chain, and the setup gotcha. Pick one, build it, come back for the next.</description>
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      <title>Claude vs GPT vs Gemini — context, pricing, and what each is best for</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The three flagships side by side — context window, output ceiling, long-context surcharge and per-million pricing — with a plain-language note under each number, plus quick reference tables for image, video, voice, automation and coding tools. Figures as of August 2026.</description>
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      <title>5 n8n automation workflows that save 10+ hours a week (with the JSON)</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Five automations running behind my content and my studio, each with the trigger → action chain, a ready-to-rebuild n8n workflow skeleton in copyable JSON, the Zapier equivalent, and the setup gotcha that breaks it. No code required — about an hour of setup for all five.</description>
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      <title>System design document template — 9 sections, with a worked example</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A 20-minute template you fill out before writing code. Nine sections — problem, requirements, constraints, architecture, data model, API contract, failure modes, tradeoffs, open questions — each with the common mistake named and a full worked example for a Video → Transcript API.</description>
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