I Was Scoring the Wrong Thing
I gave four cheap models a smaller job: reorganize my research notes. Invented figures went to zero. Two of the four deleted the caveats instead.
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Cheap Models Are Cheap. Reviewing Their Output Is Not.
I scored eleven AI-written drafts of the same article, from $0.003 to $0.10 each. All eleven failed the same item, and paying ten times more did not raise the score.
I Stopped Writing Rules for My AI Agents. I Wrote Gates Instead.
After four incidents, I stopped trusting written rules alone and started wiring Claude Code hooks into scripts that block the risky action outright.
How I Spent 3 Days of Frontier-Model Access Auditing My AI Stack
I had 3 days of full access to a new frontier model before my subscription capacity reset. Here’s why I used it to audit my own AI automation system instead of building something new, and what it found.
How I Fact-Check AI-Written Drafts Before Publishing
The biggest upgrade to my AI fact-checking wasn’t a smarter model or a longer prompt — it was switching the context. Here’s the simple move that catches what an AI’s self-check misses.
My WordPress Publishing Flow: Draft → Scheduled → Synced
Scheduling a WordPress post isn’t the finish line. Here’s my Draft, Scheduled, Synced flow, the post-publish check most people skip, and the two silent failures that taught me to close the loop.
The Reusable AI Skills I Built to Run My Blogs
I stopped betting on one AI tool. Here are the reusable skills and the handoff file that let ChatGPT, Claude, and Codex all run my blogs, plus where it breaks.
ChatGPT vs Claude vs Codex: How I Actually Use All Three to Run My Blog
I don’t pick a winner between ChatGPT, Claude, and Codex. Here’s how I split them by job across my blog, what each one is best at, and which to start with.
The Obsidian Vault Structure I Use to Run 5 Blogs Solo
A look inside the single Obsidian vault I use to run five blogs alone: the three-layer folder structure, the files that make any blog resumable, and what broke along the way.
How I Write an English Blog as a Non-Native Speaker (with AI)
How I use AI to write an English blog as a non-native speaker: native-language thinking, English-first drafting, fact checks, and voice polish.