A Month of Rewriting a Zero-Traffic Blog for AI Readers
AI agents are starting to do our purposeful searching for us. What a solo blog with zero clicks in 16 months tried over one month — and what the numbers say afterward.
Deep dives into automation, AI technology, and business strategy.
AI agents are starting to do our purposeful searching for us. What a solo blog with zero clicks in 16 months tried over one month — and what the numbers say afterward.
Five schema walls in the new computer-use toolset, 540K input vs 3K output tokens with screenshots, text vs screenshot 'eyes', and a 5-vs-5 Opus 5.5 / Sonnet 5.5 A/B — measured, not benchmarked.
On September 2, 2026, structural divestiture was rejected. For a solo blog nothing changes — for two reasons that lie outside the ruling itself.
From February 17, 2027, impressions are counted at begin-to-render instead of count-on-download. What Google's notice says, and what it pointedly does not.

A resume optimization omitting the whole system prompt froze the current time that should refresh every turn - fixed by a dedicated channel for time-varying data

When grep returns nothing - how a replacement tool's binary auto-skip plus one control byte hid a file from search

Silent loss of remote commands in an internal-test app - review bots are users too, and broadcast defaults are dangerous

2 of 12 grid cells passed in-sample, then collapsed out-of-sample - the multiple comparisons illusion and a retirement decision

Dissecting four false-positive species in an SMS expense tracker and fixing them with server-side rules

Postmortem of replacing a hardcoded app dashboard with a DB-driven launcher — measured liveness, one-line registration

A Service That Restarted 480,000 Times While Dead: Reviving a Ghost systemd Unit

Giving Least Privilege to an AI Bot That Could Run Anything: Removing bypassPermissions