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In 3 days, I'm starting something that scares me a little.
I signed up for an AI & Automation Engineering course.
Not a 2-hour YouTube playlist.
A real, structured course. With deadlines. With deliverables.
Here's why this feels significant:
I've been a digital marketer for years.
I know funnels and SEO. I know ads. I know content strategy.
But I've always used AI as a tool.
I want to understand it as an engineer.
The difference?
An engineer knows how it works and can rebuild it when it breaks.
I want to be the engineer.
I'm going to document everything.
Because I believe learning in public is the most underrated growth strategy available to anyone building a brand right now.
If you're curious about AI and automation, this might be worth following.
Day 1 starts on May 9th. 😍
Are you on a learning journey right now too?
What are you studying? Let's hold each other accountable.
#AI #AIAutomation
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"Non-technical people are now shipping production code."
That's a line the CEO of Coinbase buried in his company-wide tweet yesterday, in the middle of announcing layoffs for a "AI-native" restructuring.
And as much as I don't want to add to the AI fear spiral... this one is worth paying attention to.
Companies are moving toward smaller, hyper-focused pods. One person who's deep in their role, plus AI woven into every part of how they work. Not someone who chats with GPT occasionally. Someone who actually problem-solves through it.
Which means the bar for what "valuable" looks like is shifting. Knowing tools like Claude Code might not be optional much longer, it might just be the baseline.
At the same time, my co-founder and I talked about this and we don't think it ends in fewer jobs. we think it ends in a billion small companies.
Hiring shifts from buying a person to buying their IP, their agents, their workflows.
The generalist who can get 80% of the way there across everything starts to beat the specialist who owns 100% of one thing. Specialists still win at the frontier, deep engineering, AI labs, but everywhere else, range is becoming the advantage.
So the people who come out of this okay aren't the ones who panic.
They're the ones who get curious and may start building something of their own.
That's probably always been true. It's just more urgent now.
What do you think about this?
This AI automation SaaS website was designed to simplify how businesses understand and interact with automation products. The experience focuses on structured layouts, reusable UI systems, and clear visual hierarchy to make complex workflows feel easier to navigate. From landing page components and testimonial sections to data visualization and FAQ flows, every element was designed to improve clarity, build trust, and support conversion through a scalable design system.
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I'll be honest — my last three posts flopped.
Took me a minute to see why. I'd been writing hot takes when I should've been writing what actually helps.
Here's a small automation I shipped last week that none of my "big" posts will beat for value:
A client kept losing meeting notes. Calls in Google Meet, transcripts in their inbox, action items nowhere. Standard SMB chaos.
The fix:
Google Meet transcript → n8n webhook → GPT extracts action items + owner → posts to their Slack channel + appends to a Notion database.
Now every meeting ends with a clean action list, automatically assigned. They stopped using the word "follow-up" in calls.
Not glamorous. Not contrarian. Just useful.
What's the smallest automation that made the biggest difference in YOUR work? Drop it below — I'm collecting ideas for clients. 👇
#n8n #Automation #Productivity
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