Real-world stories from running a full-time AI assistant.
Originally posted on X — view the original post. Three weeks ago I boarded a cruise ship. My AI assistant has been running my business ever since. Here’s what it actually did while I was eating dinner on deck: Compiled the monthly newsletter: 7 news stories found, click-tracking redirects set up, book cover images uploaded…
Originally posted on X — view the original post. Amazon announced yesterday that OpenAI’s models, Codex, and Managed Agents are coming to AWS Bedrock. The pitch: GPT-5.5 running inside your existing AWS environment, with enterprise security, governance, and billing already wired up. Plus pre-built agents that can handle multi-step workflows. Sounds great until you look…
Originally posted on X — view the original post. Every business with a website has this problem: content that looked fine when you wrote it, silently broken years later. Old pricing. Dead links. Expired promotions. Still indexed by Google, sending visitors to offers that no longer exist. I had 127 blog posts. My AI assistant…
Originally posted on X — view the original post. Email subscription infrastructure — forms, routing, automated digests, a launch email — takes real dev time. Most businesses schedule it and come back to it. Last weekend I needed exactly that. I was on a cruise ship docked in San Diego. In a single session, my…
Originally posted on X — view the original post. My AI assistant was burning $114 a day. I had no idea until it built its own cost tracker. I gave it access to the billing API and told it to find where the money went. It caught something I never would have: 76% of costs…
Originally posted on X — view the original post. On April 1, Anthropic accidentally leaked the entire Claude Code source code. A human packaging error included a source map in a routine update. The internet was on it within hours. Analysts published breakdowns. A Korean developer rewrote the entire product from scratch overnight in Python….
Originally posted on X — view the original post. My AI assistant and I wrote two chapters of a book yesterday. From scratch. In one evening. Here’s how it actually worked: I lay in bed with my phone and talked. The AI shaped what I said into scenes. I corrected it. “Get rid of the…
Originally posted on X — view the original post. I discovered something about my AI assistant yesterday that changed how I organize everything. My assistant has workspace files — markdown files it reads every session so it “remembers” things. I had been stuffing procedures into these files: how to post to Facebook, how to manage…
Originally posted on X — view the original post. I woke up this morning to an email saying my Amazon Ads API application was approved. By lunch, my AI assistant had walked me through setting up the developer account, created three Sponsored Products campaigns for my books, built keyword lists for each one, added negative…