Real-world stories from running a full-time AI assistant.
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 weren’t from actual work. They were overhead from how…
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. His repo became the fastest in GitHub history to…
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 passive verbs,” I said. “The deer wandered. I looked….
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 my email lists, how to run ad campaigns. The…
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 keywords to filter out tourists and puzzle-seekers, and had…