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Stop Letting AI Choose Your Aesthetic: How to Build Stunning Websites When Your Taste Is Clear but Your Vocabulary Isn’t

With Attitude — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:18:04 +0000

Kimi K3: I designed the same newsletter hero 11 times. Every version is stunning. Copy the exact prompt and code for each.

After myClaude Design review, four PwA members have independently asked about design styles that don’t look blatantly AI-ish.

Or, more precisely: how to brief AI when the visual is clear in your head but not on your tongue.

We usually learn to like before we learn to explain why. And that's okay.

Don’t ever let it make you feel like you’re not ready to start experimenting. None of us were born with a design vocabulary.

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Skill: Weekly Reader Question Review

With Attitude — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:10:30 +0000

Analyze recent reader questions and identify recurring themes, pain points, and content opportunities.

The Skill was created in Cluing and tested in ChatGPT and Claude Cowork as a companion resource to my article on using Cluing for AI-powered research, knowledge management, and content workflows.

Read the article firstfor the full setup and context.

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Google Analytics 4 Cluing Agent Instructions + Daily GA4 Analysis Prompt

With Attitude — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:09:55 +0000

A ready-to-customize Cluing AI agent prompt for monitoring Google Analytics 4, diagnosing traffic and conversion changes, detecting anomalies, and generating daily GA4 reports.

This Cluing AI agent instruction is a companion resource to my article on using Cluing for AI-powered research, knowledge management, and content workflows.

Read the article first for the full setup and context.

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This Second Brain Will Change How You Write Your Newsletter: Cluing Review + AI Agents Preview

With Attitude — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:09:20 +0000

The new Cluing agents, MCP into Claude, Codex, Perplexity and Gemini, plus a gift for my readers.

I’m preparing for an AI Architect exam, which means I spend several hours a week asking AI to teach me how to AI, then searching the web for more AI, so I can pass an exam about AI.

A few weeks back, I was doing exactly that. Things were going well until I searched for a page and discovered I already had it open.

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I Build AI Products for a Living. Here Are 5 Things All Model Comparisons Miss.

With Attitude — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:12:18 +0000

What ChatGPT Work, Perplexity Computer and Claude Cowork assume about us, the users, and what they reveal about perceived AI intelligence.

This is perhaps not the finest evidence of my fiscal restraint: I pay separately for ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity (roughly $320 in subscriptions a month).

Yes, I know there’s overlap.

Yes, I know I can access some of these models through Perplexity.

But for me it makes perfect sense. I pay for the *intelligence *underneath and the *product experience *sitting on top.

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AI for Crime Junkies: When ChatGPT Prompts Become Evidence

With Attitude — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:34:23 +0000

Inside the operation that assigned every victim a "kill value." Updated daily, with ChatGPT's help.

I need to give you a heads-up. This story, describing the documented human-rights crisis inside Cambodia’s scam compounds, contains descriptions of human trafficking and abuse, including abuse of children.Please read with care or skip reading.

The story I have for you today is unlike anything I’ve ever covered. It’s also unlike any crime podcast I’ve listened to. Because usually, I can point at the map and say: here’s our victim, and here’s our perpetrator. Two dots. A line between them. This story has thousands of dots. Some of the dots are victims AND perpetrators, at the same time.

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5 Protocols Now Decide How AI Agents Shop. Here's What Each One Does.

With Attitude — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:06:26 +0000

An AI PM reads the specs behind agentic commerce: what ACP, AP2, x402, MPP, and UCP each do, ZeroClick's unpublished pricing, and how to sell to AI agents.

Agent-executed commerce is still tiny today, but if the predictions are right, it won’t stay that way much longer. Gartner expects it to become part of one in every five digital-commerce transactions by 2030. So while agentic commerce is only 3% of online transactions today, 89% of merchants say they are actively building for it.

When that happens, the products you build will need an entrance, a checkout, and an access mechanism built for agents. Your checkout redesign will meet customers who don’t even look at it. That’s if you’re a seller.

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Human vs AI Agent Shopping Journey Comparison (Infographics)

With Attitude — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:05:50 +0000

Eight stages, two journeys. One of them never abandons a cart, never sees your card number, and never looks at your product photos.

This infographic is a companion resource for my article on agentic e-commerce. Read the article first.

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1 Community, 164 builders, 100 methods, Y Combinator, and OpenAI Build Week 2026.

With Attitude — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:42:01 +0000

The Product with Attitude community is building. A lot.

164, I counted.

That’s how many builders I’ve featured on Product with Attitude. We could build a small techie town.

We tried several formats along the way, including one I adored, which responded to my affection by underperforming and causing people to unsubscribe. The current format keeps finding me new readers. And my readers new readers.

And sometimes, this happens:

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Don’t Deploy Another AI-built App Without Monitoring Its Dependencies

With Attitude — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:36:20 +0000

This attack passed all checks designed to stop it. Farida Khalaf shares a practical system for catching it the biggest security mistake AI-assisted builders make after deployment.

On May 11, 2026. 19:20 UTC, something changed inside the TanStack project on GitHub. Theoretically, nothing broke. No warning lights flashed.

And yet.

During the 6 minutes that followed, one of the most sophisticated open-source supply chain attacks ever documented fooled even seasoned builders. 84 malicious versions appeared across 42 npm packages in the TanStack ecosystem.

The packages, trusted by many, checked every box. They had valid SLSA Build L3 provenance (their origin could be traced) and passed most standard integrity checks. By every measure builders normally use to separate legitimate files from suspicious ones, they looked legitimate.

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AI-assisted Craft: A Manifesto

With Attitude — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:35:45 +0000

The missing category between human-made and AI-made.

The AI slop debate has been circling the same drain since 2024. By now, you’d think we might have found a name for the position somewhere between “artistic crime” and “the machine as the ultimate collaboration partner.” We haven’t.

One side calls every use of AI creative fraud. That side is especially active on Facebook, where Meta’s algorithm happily reinforces the belief. The other presses “Generate” and calls it collaboration. A life-changing, millionaire-making meeting of minds. One of those minds typed six words and the other predicted the rest, but let’s not ruin the hype.

Context: Yesterday Substack launched AI detection with Pangram — readers can now scan any post to see how much of it was written by AI. This manifesto is my answer to that moment. It scans 100% human.

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What Is Perplexity SPACE? The Sandbox Behind Perplexity Computer

With Attitude — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:52:28 +0000

How VM isolation, rolling snapshots, and external credential controls keep long-running AI agents fast, persistent, and contained.

We build AI agents because they can do actual work. Run code. Edit and organize files, a chore we’ve wasted enough human life on since the 1980s. Search databases. Sometimes build the whole thing.

But they can get things wrong.

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