How Business Should Actually Use AI in 2026: Three Modes Explained
Query, copilot, and infrastructure. Why most companies are stuck in the wrong mode and why the leverage lives in the one they have not touched.
Videos
Long-form on AI deployment, mid-market business decisions, and the failure modes others are not honest about. Plus build logs from a narrative game I am making as the hardest possible test of AI capability.
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The Three AI Decisions That Cost Mid-Market Companies $400K
The first hire you should not make, the first workflow you should build, and the line AI should never cross in your business. Decide in advance or pay reactively.
Four Things AI Still Can't Do in 2026 (Tested in a Real Business)
The four failure modes I have watched AI hit again and again in a real company. The honest counterweight to the AI hype cycle.
My Personal AI Stack: What I Actually Use Every Day
Hardware, models, tools, workflows. The actual setup I run for both serious work and serious experimentation.
Pergola Tycoon: I Built a Game About the Business I Co-Founded in Six Hours
What happens when you point an autonomous AI agent at a fun side project. The build, the constraints, the things that worked, the things that did not.
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Shed Build Logs: Episode One
Building a narrative game with AI as a stress test of the production-versus-judgment framework. Where AI helped, where it did not, and what it taught me about the hardest possible test of current AI capability.
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