One of the most practically useful improvements in AI tools over the past year is persistent memory — the ability for an AI to carry information from one conversation into the next. Instead of re-explaining your role, your preferences, and your context every time you start a new chat, the AI already knows. This sounds … Read more
You built an internal tool — or inherited one — and now you’re responsible for keeping it working. Maybe it’s a Google Apps Script that generates the weekly report. Maybe it’s a Zapier automation that routes leads from the website form. Maybe it’s a simple web app someone built last year that occasionally breaks in … Read more
The promise of autonomous AI coding agents — systems that can take a task description and complete meaningful software development work without step-by-step human direction — has been one of the most discussed developments in AI over the past two years. Devin AI and GitHub Copilot Workspace are the two most prominent products attempting to … Read more
Python has always been the practical language for business data work — flexible, readable, and capable of handling the tasks that spreadsheets can’t. The barrier has been knowing how to write it. That barrier has dropped significantly. Describe a data task in plain English to Claude, ChatGPT, or a dedicated tool like Replit, receive working … Read more
Someone sends you a script. A developer hands over a macro. You receive a vendor’s integration code and need to know what it does before you approve it. Or you just want to understand what the automation that’s been running quietly in the background for two years actually does. You don’t need to learn to … Read more
If you’ve decided to build your first business automation or internal tool but aren’t sure where to start technically, the choice of environment matters more than most advice acknowledges. Replit and Cursor are both AI-assisted coding tools, but they’re designed for different levels of experience and different workflows — and pointing a true beginner at … Read more
Spreadsheet automation has a reputation for being technical — VBA and Apps Script aren’t languages most people want to learn from scratch. But they’re both languages that AI models generate very reliably, which changes the picture significantly. You describe what you want a spreadsheet to do automatically, Claude or ChatGPT produces the code, you paste … Read more
“Vibe coding” is a term that started as a joke and became a genuine description of how a lot of AI-assisted building actually works: you describe what you want, look at what the AI produces, tell it what’s wrong, look again, repeat — without caring too much about what the underlying code actually does as … Read more
A category of tools has emerged that does something genuinely new: you describe a web application in plain English and receive working code — or a working app — within minutes. Bolt.new, v0, and Lovable are the three most discussed tools in this space, each with a different philosophy about what the AI should build … Read more
There’s a genuine shift underway in who can build software. Not the hyperbolic version — “anyone can build any app now!” — but something more useful: people without engineering backgrounds can now build simple internal tools that actually work, for tasks that previously required a developer’s time or simply went unbuilt because they weren’t worth … Read more