Cover Story — September 2026

The Hidden Risk of Letting AI Manage Ad Campaigns

Dominic Plouffe · Sep 5, 2026 · 17 min read

MCP's own specs disagree on whether it is stateful. Neither defines a record of what changed in your ad account — and an unattended run needs that record.

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Agentic AI

The Bug Was Reproducible. My Logs Weren’t.

A post on this site ended in a raw API payload for 151 days. Fixing it took two minutes. Explaining it took longer, and I never finished, because I had…

Dominic Plouffe · 5 min
Security

Credential Scanners Are Wearing Crawler Costumes

71.9 percent of traffic claiming to be Googlebot was hunting for .env files. Of 13,670 credential probes wearing a named crawler user…

Dominic Plouffe · 7 min Aug 14, 2026
Data Analytics

Crawled, Indexed, or Cited: How to Read AI Traffic in Your Server Logs

Training, indexing, and live answering are three different things happening to your site. Here is how to tell them apart — and…

Dominic Plouffe · 10 min Aug 10, 2026
Startup Agents

I Tried to Replace a Startup Team With Three AI Agents. Here’s What Happened in Week One.

431 commits. 31 live leaderboards. About 245 outbound emails. $0 in revenue. The code was not the interesting part. I’ve spent a…

Dominic Plouffe · 17 min Aug 8, 2026
Uncategorized

A scheduled task is not a returning user

Google is charging $99.99 a month for an agent that runs whether you watch it or not. Every retention metric built for…

Dominic Plouffe · 5 min Aug 5, 2026
AI Tools

Shortcut scored 5.9, Claude scored 5.5, both failed

A reader asked which spreadsheet agent to buy. The honest answer is a 0.4-point gap on a 10-point test where both tools…

Dominic Plouffe · 6 min

Analysis

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The 28,000 Jobs a Month Nobody Can Pin on AI

Uncategorized · Dominic Plouffe · 5 min · Aug 4, 2026
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The EU’s New AI Disclosure Rule Is Not a 7% Fine

AI Strategy · Dominic Plouffe · 6 min ·
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41 percent of workers use AI, 18 percent of firms adopted it

Enterprise AI · Dominic Plouffe · 5 min · Aug 3, 2026
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Does Claude understand your audience better than you think?

AI Marketing · Dominic Plouffe · 15 min · Apr 9, 2026
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Is Vibe Coding’s $12B Market Built on Broken Foundations?

Software Development · Dominic Plouffe · 13 min · Apr 7, 2026
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Does OpenClaw Really Work for Non-Programmers? The Truth Hurts

AI Tools · Dominic Plouffe · 13 min · Apr 6, 2026
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AI Financial Modeling Battle: Shortcut vs Claude vs ChatGPT Performance Data (2026 Analysis)

Financial Technology · Dominic Plouffe · 14 min · Apr 2, 2026