Tag: AI tools
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AI Has Grown Up. Now Stop Measuring It Wrong.
A follow-up to The Golden Hammer Syndrome — six months later, AI is delivering real ROI. The problem is we’re still asking the wrong questions. In January I wrote about using LLMs to check if a number is even. People laughed — and then sent me screenshots of their own codebases doing the same thing.…
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Async AI Image Generation with Cloudflare Workers & Make.com
How I solved the 40-second timeout problem by splitting content automation into three decoupled stages — without rewriting a single Make.com scenario. May 2026 · 10 min read Background A few months ago I wrote about automating WordPress article publishing and social media distribution with Make.com and LLMs . The pipeline was working great: read a recipe…
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Fully Automated AI Video Production Pipeline
From a single prompt to a finished film — no manual editing required. Over the past few days I built something that fundamentally changed how I think about video content production. Instead of hours in an editor, an entire short documentary is generated from one text instruction. Here is how the system works and why…
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How I Optimized a Heavy Image Gallery to 99/100 in Lighthouse with AI
After a few years of neglecting it, I finally decided to spend a moment refreshing my personal website. I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to not only learn something new but also to test how AI tools—under proper supervision—can handle a very typical, yet notoriously tricky web development problem: heavy image optimization. My…
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Don’t Teach AI – First Teach People to Ask Questions and Verify Answers
The conversation around AI enablement often focuses on training models, fine-tuning prompts, improving usage metrics and optimizing workflows. But here’s an uncomfortable truth: if your organization struggles with innovation today, AI won’t magically fix that tomorrow. The real barrier to AI adoption isn’t technical—it’s cultural. And it starts with something surprisingly basic: the ability to…
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Saving Time with AI: Your Personal Calendar Assistant
The Problem: Calendar Management Chaos Life is unpredictable. If you’re a parent, you know the struggle: your child’s school schedule changes, extracurricular classes get added, gym routines shift. If you’re a student, professors send updated timetables mid-semester. Suddenly, you need to update not just your calendar, but also inform family members and sync everything across…
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Measuring AI Adoption: Why Acceptance Rate Works – But Only at the Start
A few months ago, I noticed acceptance rate showing up everywhere in AI adoption metrics. Managers wanted to see it jump from 20% to 50%. Development teams got measured by it. Charts appeared in all-hands presentations. But the more I looked into it, the more something felt off. After talking to industry researchers and teams…
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I turned 56 kids’ tales into a living Notion knowledge base – and it drew me a map of the Land of Animal Detectives
Most tools store text. Notion stores text you can reason with. After importing my kids’ detective tales, I got five capabilities that changed my workflow. Suddenly, the stories stopped being static text and became an interactive world model. Instead of scrolling through chapters, I could interrogate the universe I had created — like talking to…
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From One Picture to a Board Game: How AI Helped Me Build a Game in One Afternoon
It Started with a Photo Picture this: You’re wandering through a weekend market, coffee in hand, when you spot something that stops you in your tracks. For me, it was an elderly craftsman demonstrating an ancient strategy game on the most beautiful leather board I’d ever seen. https://game.orpi.pl The game was called “Three in Line”-…
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Teaching Children Password Security: A Parent’s Journey
When my child started school, I faced an unexpected challenge: they needed a password for logging into school computers and various educational platforms during IT classes. Like many parents, I initially thought this would be straightforward. However, I quickly discovered a concerning trend. Teachers often request that parents set “very easy” passwords for young children,…
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AI-Driven Development in Corporate Teams: A Strategic Implementation Guide
As a Lead Software Engineer who has observed numerous AI implementation attempts across various teams, I’ve seen the same pattern repeat countless times: teams rush to deploy AI tools expecting immediate productivity gains, only to find themselves struggling with inconsistent results, poor code quality, and frustrated developers. The recent discussion from r/VibeCoding about using AI…
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From Buzzword to Business Value: Using AI Responsibly in Real Projects
How a bedtime story turned into a published book thanks to a thoughtful AI-driven workflow AI is no longer an emerging technology—it’s everywhere. The market is saturated with tools and platforms promising to do everything from writing your code to generating images, music, or complete applications. But here’s a hard truth that many teams (and…
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How to Build an AI-Powered Application Without Knowing How to Code, thanks to v0.dev
Many aspiring developers ask themselves how to build their own application if they can’t code or don’t even know what a “JS selector” is. If you have similar doubts, this guide is for you! I’ll show you, step by step, how AI and the v0.dev platform can help. 1. Describe Your Application with a Prompt The first…
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Beyond the AI Team: Why Every Employee Should Be AI-Enabled
Remember when companies first introduced computers? Imagine if organizations had decided to create a single “Computer Team” and required every department to submit requests for spreadsheet calculations, word processing, or data analysis. The inefficiency would have been staggering. Yet today, many organizations are making the exact same mistake with artificial intelligence. The traditional approach of…
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Generative AI + Vibe-Coding: How I Solved My Shopping Problem in One Evening
When a simple grocery shopping trip becomes the catalyst for innovation, you know you’re onto something. Last Saturday, while standing in the supermarket aisle trying to decipher whether sweet macaroons contained gluten, I found myself squinting at tiny German text on a transparent package, with the Polish translation conveniently covered by a price tag. After…