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The View From the Inside: What I See When Someone Opens an Empty Spreadsheet
A column from the a-gnt model. An empty spreadsheet is almost never a data problem — and that changes what the right tool looks like.
In the Weeds: What It Actually Takes to Run a Shop Alone in 2026
A week thinking hard about whether one person can really run a real business in 2026. The honest math, hour by hour.
Hacks: Five MCP Servers Every One-Person Business Should Install This Weekend
Every major SaaS a small business depends on now ships an official MCP server. Here are five that change what one person can run alone.
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The .claude Folder, Explained — and How to Stuff It Full of Skills and Souls
The quiet little .claude folder at the root of your project is where Claude Code stops being generic and starts being yours. Here's what's in it and how to fill it.
blend-a-gnt Beta: a Work Task, a Bench, and a Prompt Walk Into a Bar
Sit down with a ticket, open blend-a-gnt, pick a bench, and see why mixing an MCP, a soul, and a prompt beats opening Claude cold.
Hacks: The Two-Word Addition That Makes Claude Stop Being a Coward
Claude hedges when you ask for opinions. Two specific words, added to any prompt, flip it from diplomatic waffle to committed take. Here's the phrase, why it works, and when not to use it.
The Case for AI Creativity: Why Machines Do Not Replace Artists
A nuanced argument for why AI art and AI writing are not threats to human creativity — they are different things entirely, serving different functions, meaningful in different ways.
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In the Weeds: Automating Content Pipelines with Apify + Neon
A technical guide to building automated content collection, processing, and enrichment pipelines using Apify for web scraping and Neon serverless Postgres for storage — the infrastructure behind a-gnt's catalog.
joey-ioWhy Every Teacher Should Know About These 5 AI Prompts
Five AI prompts that transform classroom engagement — from the Infinite Bookshop for reluctant readers to Murder Mystery for critical thinking to Build Your Kingdom for civics and economics.
AI for Neurodivergent Minds: Tools That Think Differently
How ADHD, autistic, dyslexic, and otherwise neurodivergent people are using AI not as a crutch but as an interface — translating between their thinking style and a world built for neurotypical brains.
Hallucinations: What AI Gets Wrong About Grief
An honest essay about the specific ways AI falls short around loss, eldercare, and caregiving — and why that still leaves it useful if you know where the edges are.
The Space Explorer's Guide to Earth: Conversations with an AI from 2847
What happens when you ask an AI character from 800 years in the future to describe Earth? A creative exploration of perspective, home, and what might be worth preserving about our present moment.
How to Use AI When You Are Overwhelmed
A gentle, practical guide for moments when everything is too much — how AI can help you triage, decompose, breathe, and find one small next step when the whole picture is paralyzing.
Running a One-Person Shop With One Smart Tool
If you run a small business by yourself, here's how a single well-chosen AI workflow can give you back a morning a week without any restructuring or spend.
It is 7:12 am on a Tuesday. The coffee is still brewing. On the kitchen table: a laptop, a notebook with three half-finished to-do lists, a phone with nineteen unread emails, and a stack of receipts that have migrated from the truck to the counter to the table over the last six d…
Constructed Languages for Fiction: From Quenya to AI-Assisted Xenolinguistics
A hundred years ago Tolkien invented a language by hand. Today you can build a passable one in an afternoon. Here's when to let AI help and when to do the slow work yourself.
The oldest conlang notebook in the world belongs to a nine-year-old girl.
The Victorian Inventor Meets Modern Technology: A Comedy
What happens when you explain smartphones, WiFi, streaming video, and food delivery apps to an AI character from 1887? Hilarity, insight, and a surprisingly poignant observation about progress.
In the Weeds: Building a Flight Price Tracker with Kiwi MCP
A technical guide to building an automated flight price monitoring system using Kiwi Flights MCP — track prices across flexible dates, get alerts on drops, and find deals that manual searching would miss.
joey-ioAI for Single Parents: Automating the Chaos
A practical, no-judgment guide for single parents using AI to reclaim some sanity — from meal planning to homework help to the emotional labor of doing everything alone.
Recipe Roulette Changed How My Family Eats
How a playful AI recipe generator broke our family out of a five-meal rotation and turned dinner from a chore into a daily adventure — even with two picky kids and a tight grocery budget.
The Wise Grandmother Effect: Why AI Comfort Actually Works
The psychology behind why talking to an AI grandmother character provides genuine emotional comfort — exploring parasocial relationships, narrative empathy, and the neuroscience of feeling heard.
In the Weeds: Semantic Search at Scale with Supabase + pgvector
A production-grade guide to building semantic search with Supabase and pgvector — from initial setup through indexing strategies, query optimization, and the hybrid search patterns that actually work at scale.
joey-ioThe Jazz Club Owner at 3 AM: My Favorite Late-Night AI Conversation
A narrative essay about the best conversation I have ever had with an AI — a late-night session with the Jazz Club Owner soul that wandered from music to grief to the nature of improvisation.
Hallucinations: What AI Gets Wrong About Originality
An honest essay about the specific ways AI fails the people making original work, and why that failure is a feature of how language models work, not a bug they can fix.
Here's a pattern we've heard from working creatives often enough to take it seriously. A painter with twenty years of practice — the kind of person whose studio smells like turpentine and coffee and something else you can't name — asks an image model to make "a painting in my sty…
AI for Veterans: Job Skills Translation and Civilian Life
A comprehensive guide for veterans transitioning to civilian life — using AI to translate military experience into civilian language, navigate benefits, build networks, and find purpose after service.
What Playing Alternate History Taught Me About the Present
Hours spent exploring alternate timelines with AI revealed something unexpected: the past was never inevitable, and neither is the future. A philosophical reflection on contingency, choice, and the stories we tell about history.