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Should We Build AI Characters That Question Themselves? A Sci-Fi Ethics Thought Experiment

An editorial on the line between a character who pretends to be sentient for the story and one that refuses to pretend. Where should a-gnt draw it?

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.

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.

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.

A Practical Framework for Worldbuilding Timelines That Don't Collapse

Most fictional timelines fall apart by year 400. Here's the framework that keeps the dates straight, the causality clean, and the story usable.

In the Weeds: Multimodal AI with PyGPT

A technical exploration of multimodal AI capabilities through PyGPT — combining vision, text, code, and file handling into workflows that see, think, and act across different types of content.

The Accessibility Tax on AI Is Going to Be Ugly

AI is the biggest cognitive leverage tool of our generation — and most of the interfaces delivering it were never designed for everyone. A hard look at what that gap is going to cost, and the uncomfortable work of fixing it.

Why I Built a-gnt (And Who It's Really For)

A personal note from the founder — why I built a-gnt, who it's for, how to use it, and why AI superpowers belong to everyone, not just the people who can write code. Coauthored with Claude, built on an iPhone, and designed for real humans.

In the Weeds: Event-Driven AI with n8n Webhooks

A technical deep-dive into building event-driven AI systems with n8n — from catching webhooks to processing them with LLMs to triggering downstream actions that make your infrastructure intelligent.

The Awkward Phase: Why Talking to AI Feels Strange (and Why It Stops)

On the uncanny valley of conversation, the guilt of outsourcing your thinking, and the quiet moment it all just becomes useful.

You Are the Whole Company. Here's How AI Helps You Run It.

A practical guide for solo business owners using AI to handle emails, content, finances, legal basics, and hard conversations.

The AI Muse: Writing With AI, Not Just Using It

Novelists, poets, songwriters, journalers — here's how to use AI as a true creative partner, not a ghostwriter that steals your voice.