AI agents, infrastructure, and the tools to build with them.
by Jimmy G — ZeroShot Studio
36 apps, 44 containers, one VPS. Here's the system.
You monitor your servers around the clock. You have alerting, health checks, graceful degradation. So why does the system that crashes most often have zero observability?
A free 7-part course for startup founders, board members, and business leaders. No jargon, no code, no prerequisites. Just the practical AI skills you need to get real results.
Your CLAUDE.md is probably costing you thousands of messages a month. I cut mine from 40K to 4.8K characters. Here is how.
On March 8, 2026, an agent with too much reach replaced Plesk's nginx package on my VPS and knocked multiple proxied apps sideways. This is the incident, and the boundary rules that came out of it.
If you want a visual dashboard another agent can run, Plane is the cleanest starting point. OpenProject is sturdier, Vikunja is lighter.
Ask AI for a spec before code, and you get cleaner builds, fewer rewrites, and a better first draft. Here is the simple workflow.
Google’s Deep Research and Deep Research Max add MCP, private data, and visual outputs to Gemini’s research stack.
Google's Stitch redesign pushes design closer to the same AI-native workflow shift that already hit coding.
Anthropic’s Claude Design turns Claude into a visual workbench for designs, prototypes, slides, and other production artifacts.
OpenAI says it has monitored tens of millions of coding-agent trajectories and is pushing model-on-model safety monitoring.
OpenAI’s Astral acquisition pulls uv, Ruff, and ty closer to Codex and pushes coding agents deeper into the Python toolchain.
ChatGPT Images 2.0 adds reasoning, web grounding, and stronger consistency, which pushes image generation closer to real production work.
Google's TPU 8i and TPU 8t split agentic inference from training, and the NVIDIA tie-up says the infrastructure race is getting serious.
If your agent only looks impressive when the terminal is heavily formatted, you do not have observability. You have theatre.
A beginner-safe VS Code setup for your first vibe coding project: open the right folder, keep Workspace Trust on, sign into the correct GitHub account, and prove Copilot is actually working before you start.
A practical first-project Codex setup: choose one working surface, connect the docs, pin the model, and keep network access tighter than your enthusiasm.
OpenClaw is a self-hosted gateway that connects chat apps, tools, and optional devices to AI agents. Here is what it does well for a small business, where it is overkill, and how to start safely.
If you only want one default, start with GPT-5.4. Push routine work to mini or nano, and save pro or Codex for the passes that actually earn the extra weight.
A strong AGENTS.md is a short execution contract for contributors working on an agent-enabled repository. It should state the local operating rules, define w...
OpenAI’s child safety blueprint is a policy move aimed at AI-enabled abuse, reporting, and law-enforcement coordination.
Google’s Gemini can now generate interactive 3D models and simulations, which makes explanation and learning much less flat.
Learn a calm beginner GitHub workflow with clean repos, small commits, pull requests, branch protection, and a README people can use.
Why ZeroLabs simplified the writing path, what stayed gated, and when the fuller workflow still makes sense.
A first-person ADHD workflow for AI coding: boring defaults, reusable prompts, and small rituals that reduce friction and re-entry cost.
AI coding flips your role from creator to evaluator. Every output triggers a micro-decision cascade that compounds across a session in ways traditional coding doesn't. Here's the mechanism, and what to do about it.
Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Gemini CLI are all capable agents. But without proper config files, they spend half their time guessing about your codebase. This guide covers the exact folder structure, instruction files, and unified AGENTS.md strategy that makes them actually useful.
Most people use AI as a one-shot tool. Workflows are how you make it reliable, repeatable, and actually useful in production. Here's what they are and how they work.
Agent-chaining looks elegant until it breaks. Here's why a deterministic controller with stateless stage workers is a better foundation for any multi-step AI pipeline.
There's more AI news every day than anyone can read. Here's the filter I use to decide what's worth covering, and what gets ignored.
A map of the resources zone: a free 7-part AI for Business course plus standalone tools and templates, all built from real production use.
ZeroLabs runs on a VPS by design. Here is the infrastructure we use, the services we keep close, and why fewer vendors usually makes a small team faster.
OpenClaw is an open-source, self-hosted AI agent framework that connects to 23+ messaging platforms, supports 35+ model providers, and puts you in full control of your data. Here's what it does, why 340K developers starred it, and how to set it up.
AI agents take action. Chatbots give answers. Scripts follow recipes. Here's what actually makes an agent an agent, when you should build one, and when a bash script is the smarter move.
Most people don't need an AI agent. If the workflow fits on one whiteboard and the decisions are predictable, a script will usually do the job better.
CLAUDE.md rules are suggestions. Hooks are guarantees. Here's how to move your enforcement logic out of prompts and into deterministic shell scripts that actually run every time.
You've got the theory. Now put it to work. Five real business challenges, each with a guided AI exercise. Twenty minutes total.
Your staff are pasting client data into personal AI accounts right now. Here's the data governance crash course your board needs this quarter.
The most popular exercise from our live workshop. One prompt, one competitor analysis, the kind of output that used to take two weeks and five figures.
Most people use AI like a search engine with better manners. Agents are what happens when you let AI actually do things. No code required.
Default AI output sounds like everyone else's business. Here's how to extract your brand voice and make AI write like you in 10 minutes.
The gap between a useless AI response and a brilliant one is almost always the prompt. Here's a repeatable framework that works every time.
AI has read everything on the internet but experienced nothing firsthand. Your job is to be a good manager. Here's how AI actually works, explained without the jargon.
AI can write your blog posts in minutes. But who checks the AI? Build three review agents that fact-check, enforce your voice, and audit SEO before anything goes live.
What Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is, how E-E-A-T signals feed into it, and what you can do today to get your content cited by AI search.
A complete HTML template optimised for AI search discovery. Built from a direct Gemini interview about what makes content findable and citable.
I built a skill file that makes Claude Code weave German words into every response, turning coding sessions into passive language immersion.
OpenAI is acquiring Astral, the company behind uv, Ruff, and ty. What the deal means for Codex, Python tooling, and developers who rely on open-source tools.
Anthropic ships Claude Code Channels — push Telegram and Discord messages into a live Claude Code session. Here is what it means.
Most vibe-coded apps have security gaps hiding in plain sight. This guide walks through a practical 6-area security audit you can run yourself.
