Years of SME office work taught us why most automation attempts die: people try to automate the report before the data can be reached. The real first step is boring and powerful — pull your scattered work data into one place your agent can read. Here's the three-layer map and the prompt to start tonight.
Eighteen recipes, most of them cooked on Claude — and we're genuinely debating whether to cancel that subscription and move to Codex. Top-model economics on one side, built-in image generation on the other. Here's our honest math, the one move that keeps the choice reversible, and a real question: what would you do?
The wow moment doesn't arrive when your little app works — it arrives when it loads on a phone that isn't yours. Here's the free, ten-minute path from 'it runs on my computer' to a real URL anyone can open, with a live example we deployed while writing this.
The beginner mistake with MCP isn't installing too little — it's installing a dozen servers and wondering why the agent got slower and dumber. Here's the starter pantry: the three servers this kitchen actually runs every day, what each one earns, and what we deliberately left out.
We spent our first weeks saying API when we meant MCP, and our agent politely built the wrong thing. Here's the kitchen-terms explanation that finally stuck — an API is another kitchen's order counter, MCP hands your agent the appliances — plus a ten-minute exercise that makes the difference physical.
You spent last week teaching Claude Code your workflow by hand. Plugins are the shortcut — someone already built the good skill, agent, or safety check and packaged it so you install it in one line. Here are the three a beginner should reach for first.
OpenAI's new model family is named after the sun, the earth, and the moon — and you can't use it yet. Here's the fact-checked rundown: the three tiers, the prices, the one benchmark chart that matters, and why the release itself is the biggest story.
Anthropic's new flagship sits in a tier above Opus — at double the price. We charted the benchmarks against Opus 4.8, and the pattern is clear: the harder the task, the wider the gap. Here's what that means for what you cook.