Category: AI & Automation
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I Almost Left AWS for Shinier Platforms. Then I Found Generative AI Application Builder.
You know that moment when you’re staring at three different cloud platforms, each promising to be the future of AI development, and you start second-guessing everything you thought you knew? Yeah, that was me a few weeks ago. I found myself caught in the classic developer trap: shiny new tool syndrome. Azure AI Foundry had…
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From $300/Month to Free: Rebuilding a Campaign Management System
Sometimes the best solutions come from the worst problems. In this case, that problem was watching a digital marketing agency’s SaaS costs spiral out of control because of one simple feature: client access. Here’s how I turned a $300/month Airtable portal into a completely free, secure campaign management system using Google Sheets, some creative automation,…
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My Deep Dive into Azure AI Foundry: The Good, The Bad, and The Reality Check
So Microsoft and Google both had their big keynotes recently, and honestly, they got me pretty excited about the current state of agent development. Google was pushing their Agent Development Kit with MCP (Model Context Protocol), while Microsoft was all-in on AI Foundry. Different approaches, but both seemed like they could be game-changers. Here’s the…
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Custom AI Chat Hub: Self-Hosting & Automation
This blog details the creation of a custom AI chat platform integrating Open WebUI with n8n workflow automation, securely exposed via Cloudflare Tunnel. It covers motivations for building a personalized conversational interface over existing options, the choice of core components (Open WebUI for chat UI, n8n for automation, Cloudflare Tunnel for secure access), and the…