AI & Automation
Agentic workflows, MCP servers, and the automation plumbing that connects AI tools to real data — written companions to the AI videos on the channel.
What this category is not: prompt lists with no context. Every article here walks a workflow end to end, including the parts that break.
Articles
Claude Fable 5 vs Claude Opus 5: One Prompt, Two Models, One Excel File — the same landing-page brief given to both models side by side: who plans, who fixes its own errors, and why "half the price" didn't halve the bill.
Fable Mode: Getting a Frontier Model to Write the Manual for Its Replacement — a prompt that asks the strongest model you have to write standing instructions for the cheaper one that replaces it, plus what the "it loaded" check does and does not prove.
A Second Brain That Maintains Itself: Claude Fable 5 + Obsidian — an Obsidian vault whose wiki layer an agent owns outright, kept honest by a contract: no source, no claim; merge, don't duplicate; never overwrite a contradiction silently.
Claude Fable 5 Is Back: A Demo That Can Actually Be Wrong — five years of university cutoff scores, an agent that cross-checks its own arithmetic against the source files, and the filter it still shipped broken.
Google Antigravity 2.0: The Settings Screen Is the Story — two products under one name, the per-path/per-host/per-command permission surface that decides what a scheduled agent may touch, and the one prompt line that keeps parallel agents in sync.
OpenAI Codex: The Local Folder Is the Product — projects that are real directories, why "delete" doesn't delete, the plugin/skill split that lets a prompt reach Linear without naming it, and the two memory stores you treat differently.
Gemini 3.7 Flash: Rank 23 Was Enough — a vendor page that puts it near the top, an independent board that puts it 23rd for code, and two builds that ran first try on under 10% of a quota. Pick by threshold, not by rank.
Seven Upgrades to One Prompt — one vague request rebuilt seven times, with all eight prompts in full. Four upgrades add information, three change the process, and only one of those failures is easy to spot.
Also relevant: the MCP setup walkthrough in Building a Data-Driven Digital Product covers connecting a third-party MCP server to Claude Code end to end.