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Working notes on AI, agents and running a software company on both. Every number here comes from a real build on the live product, including the ones that went badly. Written by Richy O., founder of Amelia’s Agent.
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· 3 min read · Models
You do not need an xAI account, a key or a billing page to run Grok 4.6 on a real job. Here is the price, the profile, and the two-minute way to find out whether it suits your work.
· 2 min read · Models
Grok 4.6 is a quick general coder. Here is the kind of work that suits that profile, the kind that does not, and the acceptance checks that tell you which one you got.
· 3 min read · Models
“Grok bot” means three different things depending on who is typing it. Here is what each one is, what it costs, and how to put Grok 4.6 to work building something that outlives the chat.
· 3 min read · Agents
An autonomous coding agent writes, runs, checks and fixes without being asked. Here is where that works, the one failure that cost a customer twice, and the three things a person still has to hold.
· 2 min read · Agents
Not a flowchart tool. You describe the agent in plain words, give it a budget and the things it is allowed to touch, and it goes to work. Four agents small businesses build first, with what each one costs.
· 2 min read · Agents
Agent mode can browse, fill forms and finish a task while you watch. Then the tab closes. The difference that matters is what is left when it does.
· 3 min read · Models
53 builds, seven models, eight jobs, and every price a real charge. Scraping cost the same on every model we tested. Website builds did not, and here is why.
· 2 min read · SEO
Why every build here gets technical SEO by default, what the checklist actually contains, and what happened when we turned the same audit on our own site.
Working notes on building with AI, with the measurements and the bills attached. Sent when there is something worth sending, which is not weekly.
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