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Five Kinds of AI. A Short Guide for Dad.

My dad is 70+, already curious about AI, and wanted a sharper sense of which tool to reach for when. So I made him this short reference. Five kinds of AI tools in plain English, with a real-life example for each, plus a starter prompt you can copy.

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How I Turned 30 Debugging Sessions Into One Script

I run 24 n8n automation workflows in production. Over eight months, I accumulated 30+ debugging gotchas in a markdown file. I turned that file into a Python validator that catches every documented failure mode before deployment.

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I Built a Voice Health Logger and Deployed It From My Couch

I had a text-based meal logger that worked perfectly. Nobody used it. The moment I added a mic button and put it on my phone, it became real.

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AI Can't Tattoo You

AI will take over many jobs. But some are AI-resistant. Not because of technical limitation, but because they require embodied knowledge. Knowing what pain feels like.

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NanoRelay: How Two AI Agents Coordinate Without a Server

How I built a lightweight message relay between a CLI agent and a Telegram bot using nothing but a shared database table.

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Why I Started Writing

I build things at the intersection of humanity and technology. This blog is where I document what that actually looks like.

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