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July 3, 2026·4 min read·Trevor Hudson

The skill is the prototype

Plain-language skills changed how automations get specified. But a working skill is a prototype, not a product. Once it's stable, graduate it into deterministic code and give it back to your agent as an MCP tool.

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June 30, 2026·5 min read·Lizzy Hudson

Most Businesses Are Using ChatGPT for the One Thing It's Worst At

Watching small business owners use ChatGPT to write Instagram captions is like watching someone buy a Formula 1 car to drive to the grocery store. The actual superpower isn't writing. It's finally being able to see your own business.

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June 23, 2026·7 min read·Lizzy Hudson

Why Your Team Needs an AI Scraping Policy

AI tools are quietly fetching content from across the web on behalf of your team, and most companies have no idea what their tools are reading or what they are doing with it. Here is how to write a one-page scraping policy that prevents the next embarrassing incident.

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June 9, 2026·4 min read·Trevor Hudson

Hierarchy was a workaround

Fable 5 launched today, a clear step past a model that was already smarter than any one human at most knowledge work. Org charts exist to move information through people. That constraint just dissolved, and jobs should be ownership-shaped, not task-shaped.

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May 26, 2026·7 min read·Lizzy Hudson

Google I/O 2026: The Agent That Asks Before It Spends Your Money

Google I/O 2026 shipped three things small studios should actually care about: Gemini Spark, the cross-Workspace agent that asks before it spends; Gemini 3.5 Flash, faster and cheaper than 3.1 Pro on coding; and agentic Search that completes purchases inside the search box. Here is what to use, what to skip, and what the "ask before spending" guardrail tells us about the next year of consumer AI.

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May 22, 2026·7 min read·Lizzy Hudson

The Hallucination Tax: Real Legal Costs of Unverified AI Output

US courts imposed at least $145,000 in sanctions against attorneys for AI citation errors in Q1 2026 alone. The hallucination tax is no longer abstract. Here is what every business using AI for client-facing work needs to put in place this quarter.

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May 20, 2026·7 min read·Lizzy Hudson

Prompt Injection Isn't Theoretical Anymore: A Primer for Non-Security Teams

Time from bug discovery to working exploit has compressed from five months in 2023 to ten hours in 2026, with frontier LLMs doing the offensive work. Here is what every non-security team needs to understand before they let AI loose on their data.

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May 18, 2026·7 min read·Trevor Hudson

Your Company Is Still Level 1 (And the AI-Pilled Memos Aren't Going to Change That)

The Klarna walk-back. The Block contradiction. The Anthropic "100%" claim. Most AI-pilled memos are positioning, not field reports. Here is what is actually changing inside your walls, and what is not.

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May 18, 2026·7 min read·Trevor Hudson

From Point Tools to Workflows: The Small Business AI Maturity Curve

The 2026 small business AI conversation has shifted from "which tools should I buy" to "how do I make these tools talk to each other." Here is the maturity curve we see, and the moves that get teams from one stage to the next.

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May 15, 2026·7 min read·Trevor Hudson

From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering: What Karpathy's New Term Means for Builders

Andrej Karpathy coined "vibe coding" a year ago. Now he says the future is "agentic engineering," where AI agents plan, write, and test code under structured human oversight. Here's what changed and why it matters.

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May 13, 2026·7 min read·Lizzy Hudson

You're the Copy-Paste Layer in Your Own AI System

Most AI workflows fail at the same spot, and it's not the model. It's you. Connectors are the layer that finally removes the human from the middle of the system, and Vaib Studio runs on them.

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May 11, 2026·5 min read·Trevor Hudson

Opus 4.7 First Impressions for Non-Developers

Anthropic shipped Opus 4.7 on April 16, holding the same pricing as Opus 4.6 while delivering stronger vision and coding. Here is what changes for the people running businesses, not the people writing code.

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May 8, 2026·6 min read·Lizzy Hudson

The Five-Tool AI Stack: What Small Studios Actually Use in 2026

82% of small business employers have invested in AI tools, and the median small business runs five of them. Here is the actual five-tool stack we see working at small creative studios in 2026, and why the magic is in the workflow, not the apps.

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May 6, 2026·7 min read·Lizzy Hudson

You Don't Need to Understand AI. You Need a System for It.

Only 5% of companies get real value from AI. The difference is not technical skill or bigger budgets. It is whether they built a system around it. Here is the simple framework that separates the winners from everyone else.

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