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October 23, 2026 · Home services · Booking
I looked at 73 HVAC, plumbing, electrical, garage door and roofing websites in the Portland area the way a customer or an AI assistant would. Two showed an open time before asking who you are. Nine posted a price for a routine job.
October 22, 2026 · Computer-use agents · Accessibility
A Linux desktop that AI agents read through the accessibility tree instead of screenshots. On 110 held-out tasks: at least as reliable, at about a third of the tokens.
October 11, 2026 · AI assistants · Booking
I asked ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini to book a tune-up with a fictional Portland HVAC company and logged every request. Claude and Gemini placed a hold, ChatGPT handed me the link, a crawler booked out the week, and no assistant read llms.txt.
September 26, 2026 · Local models · MCP
hostel is a Mac app where a model running on your own machine keeps your books through MCP servers. The pieces, one turn's rules, and the measured numbers.
September 24, 2026 · Local models · MCP
Three days and about forty scripted runs of Gemma 4 and Qwen3 against an ERP over MCP. The pass rate went from 1 of 4 to 4 of 4 without changing the model. What changed was the layer between the model and the system.
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