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Archives for June 2025

Fear of Agent Rot: Lobotomies in Smart Systems

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Are you a builder? Probably if you’re here. Either way, we’re all getting carried along in several recent trends. As we race to automate everything with shiny new AI tools, we’re also stacking up fragile workflows and hidden dependencies, setting ourselves up for a quiet kind of chaos I’m calling Agent Rot. It’s like Link Rot, but for smart systems. The short answer is to just pay attention to this. For more, here’s why it’s happening, what could go wrong, and what we can do to keep our bots from forgetting what they were built to do.

Agent Rot will put Link Rot to shame. It’s not quite here yet, but I’m giving it a name. Because for now our burgeoning bright, shiny, new AI/GPT automation tools still have that “Fresh New Workflow Scent!” But what challenges will we face when they start to get creaky?

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Adding a GPT with RAG to a WordPress Site

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A couple of weeks ago I deployed a small WordPress website in support of a particular medical community. My goal was to test using WordPress vs. A Gen AI website builder and see how well a moderately technical product manager type, (but not a developer), could use some tools to make digital things. I kind of joked at the end that “I’ll probably toss in a GPT Chat feature because, well, I mean… it’s 2025.” I wasn’t actually going to bother, but, really now… it is 2025 after all. The site should have a GPT. So let’s have at it! (Here’s the end result by the way: ACL-GPT.)

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AI GPT Safety & Issues for Kids

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Does the latest gee-whiz AI tech create some special issues for kids? I think so. Like anything else, to what degree varies by age and personality, but some things apply to everyone. As a dad, I got to thinking about this based on a LinkedIn chat about kids and devices in general. I’d thought I’d known a thing or two and had some kid discussions, but after poking around a bit, I’ve realized I’ve missed some things. Let’s assume the definition of kid / child here is everyone up through high school. Here’s what I’ve found…

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