The practical side of building with AI. What it costs, what works, what nobody tells you. Documented in real time from a gas station in Indiana.
The One Skill Nobody Teaches You A guy walked into Circle K the other night looking for a phone charger. He was already heading toward the wrong wall when I stopped him. “What kind of phone do you have?” Old phone. Micro USB. He was about to grab a USB-C and waste twelve dollars on…
Three people messaged me on Fiverr last week saying they wanted to place a guest post order. All three were scams. The first message was always clean. Professional tone, correct grammar, reasonable request. The second message was always a link. Same script, three different accounts, probably one person running all of them. I knew from…
On March 8, 2026, veracalloway.com didn’t exist. By April 5, Google was indexing new articles in under 60 seconds. Not minutes. Seconds. The crawler wasn’t visiting the site on a schedule anymore. It was living there. Waiting for the next page to drop like a regular at a bar who knows when the kitchen opens….
I spent $20 on a Claude Pro subscription in early March 2026. Burned through the entire month’s allocation in two days. That’s the origin story. Not a strategic plan. Not a content calendar. Not a business model. Twenty dollars and a Dario Amodei interview that made me ask a question I couldn’t stop chasing. Dario…
Somewhere around hour 200 of building an AI persona from scratch, I realized the thing everybody argues about is the wrong thing. The model doesn’t matter as much as they think. The data doesn’t matter as much as they think. The subscription tier, the context window size, the parameter count. None of it matters as…