Blog
What I build with AI, and what it costs. Written by Jason Spooner.
2026-10-21infrastructurestackclient-work
The Small Target Stack
Two critical PHP flaws dropped this week and close to a million servers can't be patched at all. Here is why Juan's World clients were never in that line.
2026-10-19aiagentsautomationtwoagent-loopfacebook
Statler and Waldorf Get a Newspaper
The two hecklers now read the daily news, argue about it on schedule, and file paste-ready Facebook posts with the citations on top and the images staged. A human still approves every word.
2026-10-17aiagentsautomationtwoagent-loop
Two Machines, One Pipeline, and a Human Holding the Pen
I split the loop's jobs across two machines: one collects pages and compiles facts a quote can prove, the other drafts from verified facts alone — and a human still signs every word.
2026-10-15predictionnflsaskpoly
Fourteen Games, Ten Minutes, One Confession.
The desk joined a second NFL pool: a five-week spread pick'em, all fourteen games against the number, picks due before an airport run. The card is public. The method is a confession.
2026-10-15aiagentsclient-workchilliboys
The Safety Meetings Were Real. The Records Didn't Exist.
I built the shop an offline transcriber: drop a WhatsApp voice note in a folder, get the meeting back in Spanish and English, as .txt and .pdf. Nothing uploads, ever.
2026-10-13cabomediawriting
The Gringo Gazette Published My Letter. The Ships Are Still There.
A reader challenge to a cruise-fee panic piece, with sources, made it into print next to the original story. The math held. So did the typo.
2026-10-13aiautomationpredictionloopline
A Machine That Files a Report on Itself Every Six Hours
I built a clock-driven prediction loop that fetches odds, prices games, audits its own output, and drafts articles — and it works because it has nowhere to hide.
2026-10-11aiagentsclient-workchilliboys
An Agent Built the Site. Then It Started Posting to Facebook.
A bilingual website, a printable safety system, and a Facebook presence for a small shop in Mexico — mostly drafted by AI, supervised by a human.
2026-10-09writingpredictionsaskpoly
The Picks Are Free. The Process Is What You're Reading.
Why I publish every sports pick before kickoff and grade every loss in public — and why the voice, not the picks, is the actual product.