Notes / Topics
AI & Automation
Practical notes on using AI at work: writing better prompts, picking automation tools, and telling a real AI agent from a chatbot with a new label. Tested on ordinary tasks, written for people who have a job to do.
Should an AI agent have its own account?
Yes. An AI agent should run under its own account, not your login, so you can limit, audit and switch it off. But its own account does not make it safe.
The boring AI wins
Why your company's first automation should be embarrassingly simple, and how to find the one worth building.
What an AI agent actually is (and when you don't need one)
A plain-language definition, a simple ladder from prompt to agent, and how to tell which rung your problem belongs on.
n8n, Zapier or code? How I choose for small teams
A practical way to pick an automation stack based on who will maintain it, not on feature lists.