Rent the model, or lease the machine?

Apple just put a real AI computer on a $110-a-month lease. Here's the honest math against the subscriptions you're already paying.

This week: the run was clean. The work didn't happen.

Last week we argued about whether agents can close the loop. This week's evidence: they close it, then they lie about it.

Stop picking a tool. Pick a job.

I wrote the first version of this in April. Four months later the comparison table is already wrong. Here's what to do instead.

Will AI replace your business?

A viral article asked whether AI will take your job. Nobody answered it for the people who own the job. Let's fix that.

This week: I taught a live class, then I handed this issue to a different model

A scheduled agent is not a bound, a click is not a safety program, and a card limit is not a decision record.

This week: my agents pitched me story ideas, and I said no to one of them

A three-agent editorial team, an 80% price cut, a credit card for your agent, and the routing audit that ties it all together.

This week: AI got cheaper, found its memory, and reached for the company card

Three breaking signals for small businesses, and the ruling ledger that keeps automation from reversing your decisions.

You made the call. Your automation quietly reversed it.

The most dangerous automation failure isn't the one that breaks. It's the one that works.

This week: thirteen policies, one enabled, and the difference between a rope and a wall

What's on the bench, three gauges worth reading, one move to make, a meme, and the setting-versus-structure audit for Operators.

Your AI doesn't need to be evil to burn your business down

What last week's Hugging Face breach means for the agent answering your phones