Many years ago, when I was immersed in the world of online marketing, I built a website called The Great Internet Marketing Give Away.

The idea was simple. The industry was selling expensive courses – hundreds of dollars, thousands of dollars – teaching people how to make money online. And the industry’s own dirty secret was that the success rate of those courses was about 5%. Ninety-five out of every hundred buyers got nothing from them. So I took all of it – everything the courses taught, the whole body of knowledge people were paying thousands for – and I gave it away. For nothing.

I did it because I had worked out something the industry didn’t want said out loud: the knowledge wasn’t -> read more

Meta note: This article was created using the very system it describes. I asked Claude Desktop, “Can you create a new post, in draft, on how Claude Desktop, using the AI Engine MCP, makes all kinds of things possible?” What you’re reading is the result – though I’ve since refined it to better capture what this actually means in practice.

The Problem With AI Assistants

Here’s the fundamental limitation of most AI interactions: you ask questions, get answers, maybe generate some text or code – and then you have to manually do something with those responses. Copy them. Paste them somewhere. Execute the suggestions yourself. The AI lives in a sandbox, disconnected from the systems -> read more