Posts on ai automation

Apify, Monid and SocialCrawl: three services that hand an agent thousands of tools through a single API key each. Three demos, a podcast mapped from its transcript, keyword ideas from Ahrefs data, and a search for agent skills on GitHub.

One sitting, one sample cleaning company, one live site. Astro, TinaCMS, GitHub and Netlify, built by an AI agent from a PRD and a DESIGN.md. The full workflow, including the two things that broke.

Caffeine, No AI Slop, here.now and the Blindspot Pass, four tools and skills added to a coding-agent workflow. What each one does and where it fits.

Bolt.new's Forge agent, a real product idea, and a DESIGN.md. Landing page, waitlist database, hosting, analytics, SEO pre-rendering and a custom domain. What came out fast and what still needs work.

Codex, Claude Code, Cursor and OpenCode in one window, given a shared challenge: each model builds a 3D ram in a Three.js scene. Where the coordination worked, and where browser testing ate the token budget.

A model built for software rather than conversation: you give it a situation and a set of possible answers, it returns structured decisions with probabilities. What the decision types do, and where it fits in an agent.

A real consulting session from start to finish. Hermes setup, personality design, product catalog integration, and voice messaging on a cheap VPS.

A practical guide to self-hosting Hermes Agent on a VPS, picking the right model, and crafting a SOUL file that actually works.