The Legacy Workflow: Why Connecting MCP Servers to Azure AI Foundry Used to Make Developers Cry
You know that feeling when you click around a new platform’s UI looking for a button that should obviously exist, and it just… doesn’t? Yeah, that was me staring at Azure AI Foundry’s interface, trying to connect an MCP server to my agent. There was no “Add Server” button. No form to input a URL. […]
I Thought Deploying an MCP Server to Azure Would Be Simple. Three Port Conflicts Later…
You know that moment when you read the Azure Container Apps documentation and think “this looks straightforward”? Yeah, that was me last week. FastMCP server working locally, Docker container running perfectly, Azure deployment guide looking clean and simple. Then I tried to actually deploy it. Port binding conflicts. Authentication failures that made no sense. Container […]
I Built My First Production Claude Skill. It Writes This Blog.
When your AI assistant starts writing your blogs about building AI assistants, you know something meta is happening You know that feeling when you’re explaining the same thing for the tenth time and you think “there has to be a better way to do this”? That was me last week, staring at another client Slack […]
Agent Builder Was Supposed to Make This Easy. It Didn’t.
Three bugs killed my agent build. The visual workflow builder didn’t stop any of them. October 6th, 2025. OpenAI drops AgentKit at DevDay. Agent Builder goes live—a visual workflow canvas for building multi-agent systems. Drag-and-drop nodes. Human approval flows. MCP integrations. Templates that actually work. As an n8n automation specialist, I should’ve been threatened. Here’s […]
Business Document Generator for LLM Consumption
Summary I built a Business Document Generator that automates the creation of detailed reports by orchestrating AI calls in n8n, managing inputs in Airtable, and invoking specialized tools for tasks like data scraping and charting. This system produces human-readable documents and structured outputs for downstream AI processes, cutting manual prep time in half and ensuring […]
Automating Workflows With Zapier, Airtable, And MindStudio
While MindStudio improved my AI interactions, I discovered that AI’s true potential lies in seamlessly integrating these outputs into real-world applications and workflows. Join me as I explore how to connect AI tools with everyday applications for powerful, automated processes. My journey into AI has been a constant evolution, with each step revealing new possibilities […]