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LLMs.txt: The Tiny SEO Tweak That Moves a Much Bigger Machine
Everyone’s trying to get an edge in search right now—more visibility, higher rankings, better traffic. So here’s something to think...

Rich Washburn
Sep 303 min read


A Surprisingly Easy Way to Learn About Anything (That Also Happens to Be Free)
This wasn’t a grand strategy. It just kind of… happened. As part of the AI side of my web business, I’ve been doing more blog...

Rich Washburn
Aug 234 min read


Meet NOVA: My New GPT-5 Workhorse (And a Gift for You)
If you’ve followed me for a while, you know about ARIA . What started years ago as a recursion experiment snowballed into a full-blown...

Rich Washburn
Aug 223 min read


BrandFlex: The Non-CRM CRM I Didn’t Mean to Build
Introducing BrandFlex Custom Business Platform—Conjured by AI, Shaped by Actual Requirements BrandFlex is a fully customizable,...

Rich Washburn
Jul 52 min read


Introducing Rich’s Review Repo
Your backstage pass to the software I actually use—and how I conjured the whole thing into existence. I test a lot of tools. Some are...

Rich Washburn
Jun 262 min read


Thought Google Owned Object Detection? Yeah... Me Too.
So I got pulled into a new AI project recently—one that leans into Object Detection. Now, most of my work is more “agentic”—you know,...

Rich Washburn
Jun 42 min read


Behind the Prompt Curtain: When AI Safety Turns into Terminal Prohibition
If you’ve ever worked with an AI agent and thought, “I’m not configuring this thing—I’m micromanaging a digital toddler with root...

Rich Washburn
May 302 min read


Welcome to LifeOS: How a Generation is Reprogramming Reality with AI
In the span of 24 hours, I had two conversations that made this whole thing snap into focus. First: a younger guy—maybe ten years my...

Rich Washburn
May 234 min read


Is AI Making Us Dumb? Only If We Forget What Intelligence Actually Is
Remember this one? “ You won’t always have a calculator in your pocket! ” Oh, but I do. And it’s not just a calculator — it’s a weather...

Rich Washburn
Apr 293 min read


AI Ain’t Beta Anymore: O3 Lets You Be the Intern in Your Own Workflow
There’s a moment—if you’ve been in tech long enough—when a tool stops being “cool” and starts being critical . That moment just hit, four...

Rich Washburn
Apr 182 min read


Distributed Cognition: The Real AI Revolution You’re Missing
Let me tell you a weird story: we don’t know how to build the Space Shuttle anymore. Seriously. NASA built the Shuttle with some of the...

Rich Washburn
Apr 123 min read


Full AI Actors, Ghibli Dreams, and GPT-5: The AI Tsunami Is Here
Remember when the biggest tech news of the week was a new iPhone color? Yeah—those were simpler times. Now, it feels like the AI arms...

Rich Washburn
Apr 65 min read


Google Just Won the Coding Game—Here’s Why That Should Make You Pause
Google didn’t just raise the bar in the AI race—they flipped the table . With the release of Gemini 2.5 Pro, Google quietly dropped a...

Rich Washburn
Mar 282 min read


MANUS AI: China’s AGI Contender That’s Forcing OpenAI to Look Over Its Shoulder
Let’s get right to it: Manus AI is the latest agent out of China that’s stirring up serious noise in the AI world. Launched in March...

Rich Washburn
Mar 214 min read


Free Tool That Makes ChatGPT Voices Way Easier to Save
Okay, so you know those crazy realistic ChatGPT voices OpenAI dropped a while back? I’m still obsessed. I mean, they’re so good, I...

Rich Washburn
Nov 23, 20243 min read


The Nimble Advantage: How Small Businesses Can Outmaneuver Giants with AI
It’s often assumed that bigger is better. The biggest budgets, the most resources, and the largest teams usually win the day. But when it...

Rich Washburn
Aug 22, 20243 min read


The Battle for Unbiased AI: Freedom GPT
The emergence of advanced AI tools has revolutionized various sectors, yet it has also introduced significant ethical and operational...

Rich Washburn
Jun 26, 20242 min read


Altman's Leap to Microsoft Marks a New Chapter in AI
In an industry where change is the only constant, the recent shakeup at OpenAI has sent ripples through the tech world. Sam Altman's...

Rich Washburn
Nov 20, 20233 min read
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