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Paul Crinigan

AI integration and memory engineer. I build AI apps, agents, and free developer tools at aiappsapi.com, and web games at abratabia.com.

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The Two Questions To Ask Before You Put A Free Image On A Site You Ship

The Two Questions To Ask Before You Put A Free Image On A Site You Ship

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The Multi-Agent Patterns That Outlived AutoGen

The Multi-Agent Patterns That Outlived AutoGen

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Why Your AI App Forgets: Context Window Management That Holds Up

Why Your AI App Forgets: Context Window Management That Holds Up

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Why Browser Games Lose Players In The First Five Seconds

Why Browser Games Lose Players In The First Five Seconds

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The Retrieval Layer Decides Whether Your Second Brain Is Worth Building

The Retrieval Layer Decides Whether Your Second Brain Is Worth Building

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What To Check Before You Merge Agent-Written Code

What To Check Before You Merge Agent-Written Code

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What To Build Before You Leave An Agent Running Overnight

What To Build Before You Leave An Agent Running Overnight

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The Marketplace Fee Math That Decides Your Margin

The Marketplace Fee Math That Decides Your Margin

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What Has To Be True Before You Trust An AI Data Agent

What Has To Be True Before You Trust An AI Data Agent

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From Working Once To Running Every Day

From Working Once To Running Every Day

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The Ecommerce SEO Problems That Are Actually Engineering Problems

The Ecommerce SEO Problems That Are Actually Engineering Problems

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Three Marketing Problems That Are Really One Data Problem

Three Marketing Problems That Are Really One Data Problem

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The Physics Loop That Makes A Web Game Feel The Same On Every Device

The Physics Loop That Makes A Web Game Feel The Same On Every Device

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Managed vs Self-Hosted AI Agents: The Numbers That Actually Decide It

Managed vs Self-Hosted AI Agents: The Numbers That Actually Decide It

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Every Test You Keep Becomes A Regression Test

Every Test You Keep Becomes A Regression Test

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What AI Actually Does For Research, And What It Still Cannot Do

What AI Actually Does For Research, And What It Still Cannot Do

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Self-Hosting A Model Is Easy, Self-Hosting An Agent Is Not

Self-Hosting A Model Is Easy, Self-Hosting An Agent Is Not

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The Ecommerce Speed Tax Nobody Audits

The Ecommerce Speed Tax Nobody Audits

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What Hermes Agent Gets Right About Long Running Agents

What Hermes Agent Gets Right About Long Running Agents

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Building a Self-Hosted Workflow Engine on PHP and SQLite

Building a Self-Hosted Workflow Engine on PHP and SQLite

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Every Metric Needs A Set Point, Or It Is Just A Number

Every Metric Needs A Set Point, Or It Is Just A Number

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One Parser For Every Lab Instrument Export

One Parser For Every Lab Instrument Export

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Why Your AI Agent Fails In Production (And Why It Is Not The Model)

Why Your AI Agent Fails In Production (And Why It Is Not The Model)

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The Half of Lead Scraping That Actually Decides If It Works

The Half of Lead Scraping That Actually Decides If It Works

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What A Warehouse Management System Actually Has To Get Right

What A Warehouse Management System Actually Has To Get Right

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Four Agent SDKs, Four Different Bets

Four Agent SDKs, Four Different Bets

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What AI Recipe Generators Get Right And Where They Fall Apart

What AI Recipe Generators Get Right And Where They Fall Apart

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The Science That Runs Entirely On Data You Cannot Regenerate

The Science That Runs Entirely On Data You Cannot Regenerate

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Tool Calling Is Where Most AI Agents Actually Break

Tool Calling Is Where Most AI Agents Actually Break

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Cypress Is Not A Faster Selenium, It Is A Different Bet

Cypress Is Not A Faster Selenium, It Is A Different Bet

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What The Numbers Say About Renewable Energy

What The Numbers Say About Renewable Energy

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When A Chatbot Becomes An Agent, And Why The Rewrite Sneaks Up On You

When A Chatbot Becomes An Agent, And Why The Rewrite Sneaks Up On You

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How Machines Actually See: From Pixel Grids To Vision Transformers

How Machines Actually See: From Pixel Grids To Vision Transformers

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How A Coding Agent Reads A Codebase It Has Never Seen

How A Coding Agent Reads A Codebase It Has Never Seen

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What Actually Breaks When You Ship AI Into A Real Business

What Actually Breaks When You Ship AI Into A Real Business

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Your First Order Is Supposed to Lose Money

Your First Order Is Supposed to Lose Money

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Fault Tolerance Is the Layer Most AI Agent Stacks Are Missing

Fault Tolerance Is the Layer Most AI Agent Stacks Are Missing

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When Should An AI Agent Act Without Asking You First

When Should An AI Agent Act Without Asking You First

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Instrumenting An Ecommerce Funnel Before You Try To Fix It

Instrumenting An Ecommerce Funnel Before You Try To Fix It

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Four Layers Every Business AI Stack Ends Up Needing

Four Layers Every Business AI Stack Ends Up Needing

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The Security Gap In Agent Written Code Starts In The Task Description

The Security Gap In Agent Written Code Starts In The Task Description

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What Actually Changes Inside A Model When It Learns

What Actually Changes Inside A Model When It Learns

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The Agent Permission Question Nobody Answers Before Shipping

The Agent Permission Question Nobody Answers Before Shipping

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Your Agent Does Not Have A Memory Problem, It Has A Retrieval Problem

Your Agent Does Not Have A Memory Problem, It Has A Retrieval Problem

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Choosing An Ecommerce Platform When You Are The One Maintaining It

Choosing An Ecommerce Platform When You Are The One Maintaining It

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Web Images: Picking a Format, Cutting the Weight, and Checking the License

Web Images: Picking a Format, Cutting the Weight, and Checking the License

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Ecommerce Analytics: The KPIs Worth Tracking and a Review Cadence That Ships Decisions

Ecommerce Analytics: The KPIs Worth Tracking and a Review Cadence That Ships Decisions

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AI Data Analysis Is Not Machine Learning, and Knowing the Difference Saves You a Project

AI Data Analysis Is Not Machine Learning, and Knowing the Difference Saves You a Project

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What Changes When Your Agents Keep Their Own Memory

What Changes When Your Agents Keep Their Own Memory

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What You Actually Get From An AI Logo Generator

What You Actually Get From An AI Logo Generator

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The Parts A Mind Needs That A Chatbot Does Not Have

The Parts A Mind Needs That A Chatbot Does Not Have

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What MCP Actually Standardizes, And What It Leaves To You

What MCP Actually Standardizes, And What It Leaves To You

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Static or Dynamic: The One Check That Decides Your JavaScript Scraper

Static or Dynamic: The One Check That Decides Your JavaScript Scraper

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The Fee Math Behind An Amazon FBA Listing

The Fee Math Behind An Amazon FBA Listing

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Marketing Automation For Developers Who Do Not Want To Do Marketing

Marketing Automation For Developers Who Do Not Want To Do Marketing

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Four Things the Payment Pricing Page Does Not Tell You

Four Things the Payment Pricing Page Does Not Tell You

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What AI Photo Editors Are Actually Doing to Your Image

What AI Photo Editors Are Actually Doing to Your Image

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What Self Hosted Messaging Software Has To Get Right

What Self Hosted Messaging Software Has To Get Right

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Remote Work Is Normal Now, The Logistics Still Are Not

Remote Work Is Normal Now, The Logistics Still Are Not

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What Genetic Algorithms Borrow From Evolution, and What They Leave Out

What Genetic Algorithms Borrow From Evolution, and What They Leave Out

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