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Alan Knox
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Your AI prototype will fail… silently. Learn Pre-prototype habits for logging and observability to see inside your app, debug faster, and make your AI more reliable.

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#ai #VibeCoding #AICoding #AIPrototyping #Logging #Observability #SoftwareEngineering #LLMDev
November 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Production down. 8 engineers scrambling. Hours investigating logs manually. Chaos across Slack channels. AI incident response correlates signals automatically, suggests root causes, drafts communications.

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#DevOps #SRE #IncidentResponse #AIStrategy #ITOperations
November 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Error handling is not optional. If your AI app depends on APIs or LLMs, you need a plan for when things break. Here’s a simple breakdown for non-developers learning to think like engineers.

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#ai #vibecoders #aiengineering #nocodeai #aibuilder
November 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Missing contract renewal deadlines? Vendor SLAs not tracked? Favorable payment terms not enforced? AI contract extraction pulls obligations from legal documents and tracks them proactively.

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#ai #LegalTech #ContractManagement #AIStrategy #Procurement
November 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Fraud detection blocking legitimate customers? Or fraud slipping through your rules? AI risk assessment catches fraud that rules miss while reducing false positives that damage experience.

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#ai #FraudPrevention #FraudDetection #AIStrategy #Fintech #RiskManagement
November 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Where should your AI prototype live? Learn Pre-prototype habits for local, on-prem, cloud, hybrid, and containerized deployments to make your prototypes scalable, portable, and resilient.

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#VibeCoding #AICoding #DeploymentTargets #Containers #Serverless #CloudComputing
November 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Fast prototypes are great… until you try to deploy them. Learn Pre-prototype habits for CI/CD and deployment discipline to keep your AI apps resilient and safe.

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#AI #VibeCoding #AICoding #AIPrototyping #CICD #DeploymentDiscipline #SoftwareEngineering #AIApps #LLMDev
November 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Sales deal waiting a week for legal review? Your experts spend 80% of time on routine verification, 20% on actual judgment. AI-powered document review handles routine checks automatically.

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#ai #AIStrategy #DocumentAutomation #AIImplementation #BusinessOperations
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Before you teach the machine, fix your process.

Automation doesn’t fix inefficiencies; it amplifies them.

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#AI #Automation #BusinessStrategy #DigitalTransformation #WorkflowDesign
November 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Fast prototypes can fail under real-world use. Learn Pre-prototype habits for performance and scalability testing, including load, stress, and capacity planning.

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#ai #VibeCoding #AICoding #AIPrototyping #PerformanceTesting #Scalability #SoftwareEngineering #AIApps
November 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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300 alerts/day and your IT team is drowning in noise. Critical issues get buried. Manual investigation takes hours. AI-powered monitoring filters signal from noise.

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#ai #AIStrategy #ITOperations #SysAdmin #AIImplementation #TechOps #SystemMonitoring #ITManagement
November 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Automated testing keeps your AI prototype from falling apart after one small change: unit, integration, regression, property-based, and fuzzing.

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#AI #VibeCoding #AICoding #AIPrototyping #AutomatedTesting
November 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Compliance team spending 80% of time on routine monitoring? Manual review doesn’t scale and creates risk. AI-powered compliance monitoring enables comprehensive coverage.

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#AI #ComplianceTech #RegulatoryCompliance #AIStrategy #RiskManagement
November 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Smaller AI models are moving from research to reality. Here’s why specialized small language models (SLMs) are outperforming large ones in cost, speed, and control, and what that means for enterprise AI in 2026.

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#AI #MachineLearning #LLM #MLOps #AIFuture #EnterpriseAI
October 31, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Prompt-injection can trick your AI into revealing secrets or ignoring rules.
Here are the Pre-prototype habits every vibe coder should follow to keep AI prototypes safe.

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#VibeCoding #AICoding #AppSecurity #PromptInjection #AIPrototyping #LLMDev #SoftwareEngineering
October 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Spending hours checking social platforms but still missing brand mentions until days later? AI-powered social listening monitors everywhere your customers are.

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#ai #AIStrategy #SocialListening #BrandMonitoring #CustomerExperience #ReputationManagement
October 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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AI can help you code faster, but it won’t save you from insecure defaults, leaked secrets, or broken data flows.
Here’s a way to plan before building your next prototype.

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#ai #VibeCoding #AICoding #Security #DevTips #AIDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering
October 28, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Spending 5 hours onboarding every new customer? That doesn’t scale. But generic videos don’t work either. AI-powered onboarding provides interactive guidance.

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#ai #AIStrategy #CustomerOnboarding #SaaS #CustomerSuccess #ProductAdoption #AIImplementation #StartupGrowth
October 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Customers interact across multiple channels but you treat each one like it’s the first time? That’s why they leave. AI-powered personalization creates seamless experiences.

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#ai #AIStrategy #CustomerExperience #Personalization #CX #AIImplementation #BusinessGrowth
October 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Most businesses focus on which AI model to use, but the real advantage comes from customization to use your data.

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#AI #BusinessStrategy #AIForBusiness #DigitalTransformation #Innovation #CustomAI #CompetitiveEdge #LLM #AIApplications
October 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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12+ meetings/day and can’t remember what was decided last week? Meeting intelligence goes beyond transcription…

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#ai #AIStrategy #MeetingProductivity #ExecutiveLife #OrganizationalMemory #BusinessAI #ProductivityTips #AIImplementation #KnowledgeManagement #WorkSmart
October 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Built a Reddit scraper over the weekend to find real business pain points. Found 80 in the first run analyzing just ONE WEEK of posts.

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#SoftwareDevelopment #AI #WeekendProject #AIStrategy #Reddit #BuildInPublic
October 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Spending 8-10 hours/week on competitive research? That’s lost growth time. Here’s how to automate competitive intelligence with AI, when it makes strategic sense.

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#ai #AIStrategy #CompetitiveIntelligence #MarketResearch #BusinessAI
October 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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AI guardrails aren’t just about compliance. They’re how you make AI trustworthy. They guide tone, enforce policy, and protect brand consistency so you can innovate safely.

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#AI #AIStrategy #Business #AIGovernance #DigitalTransformation #Leadership #ResponsibleAI
October 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM