The content creation workflow I built so I could explain Siren without burning out. Voice profile, interview, multi-pass editing, customer avatar agents. No slop.
Detector tools didn’t catch my AI proposal. My client did. Here’s what your readers notice that the detectors miss, and how to fix it without bypass tricks.
Most ‘how to make ChatGPT sound human’ advice is a magic prompt. It doesn’t work. Here’s why your readers can spot AI from across the room, and what actually fixes it.
Alex Standiford
An AI-enhanced workflow absolutely can multiply your work, but I’ve never been totally satisfied with a “one shot” of anything AI made when it’s actually something that I need to maintain.
So much of my flow has begun to revolve around a lot of the things Chris Lema is talking about here.
Most WooCommerce affiliate plugins share the same architecture. The architectural choice matters more than the plugin choice, and one option has no structural ceiling.
A look at Solid Affiliate for WooCommerce: what the architecture can and can’t do, and what choosing it costs over the program’s lifetime.
What Solid Affiliate setup actually involves before you buy, including the the wizard, the post-wizard configuration, and how the same setup looks in a composition-based alternative.
Alex Standiford
This has been a pretty big time/money saver with PHPNomad. I set up a CLI that makes it possible to scaffold code that fits PHPNomad’s patterns quickly. With it, I’m able to establish patterns in projects and save the patterns as JSON files in my PHPNomad projects so AI can leverage them when it needs to create things again later.
Not only does this save a lot on tokens, it also ensures that AI doesn’t have to guess when I say “Use the x pattern that is established in this repository to do y”
It can also discover them on its own, which is nice.
The CLI also has the capability to index pretty much all of PHPNomad’s code and save it into a batch of JSONL files, which allows AI agents to grok my project quickly without combing through the entire codebase.
It has had a profound impact on my AI token usage.
https://github.com/phpnomad/cli
Alex Standiford
The gravity of your hometown will always give you reasons to stay home. Sometimes that gravity is strong, and sometimes it will weaken. When it’s weak, leave. Travel. See things. You can always come back, but the opportunity is always a fleeting thing.
When we traveled in our camper, we left my kids were 1 and 4. My family and parents weren’t anywhere near needing any help from us, my kids didn’t have school friends yet, I was working remotely for a stable job, and my wife didn’t have a job. We happened to have a camper in our posession and a truck to haul it.
On paper, that’s about as good of an opportunity as any, and yet it was still a significant, and difficult transition, but I’m glad we did when we did, because the gravity of my hometown ramped up quite a bit more once my kids started making friends.
By the time they’re old enough to decide to go travel full-time, it’s entirely possible that either of mine or my wife’s parents may need us to be nearby to help them as they get older.
I guess what I’m getting at is take a look at your life right now, and if the only reason why you are where you’re at is because you’re scared, then re-think it. A few years on the road can completely change your life, and the opportunity to do it is neither universal, nor permanently on the table.
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