Four things that broke while I built my first serious AI automation
A week of 401s, silent failures and one genuinely embarrassing naming collision. What actually went wrong building the audit tool, in order.
I've spent years in digital marketing and technology. AI is changing all of it, so I'm working out how to use it properly — testing things, building things, and sharing what I find. Including the parts that don't work.
A week of 401s, silent failures and one genuinely embarrassing naming collision. What actually went wrong building the audit tool, in order.
Ranking on Google and being cited by ChatGPT are different problems. Here's the distinction, and what I implemented when I rebuilt askismaeel.space.
Eight modules, one webhook, and a Claude API call. A walkthrough of the automation behind the free audit tool, including what it costs to run.
Moving a domain from a website builder to static hosting is meant to be routine. One confirmation dialog nearly cost me my entire mailbox.
There's no shortage of people explaining what AI will do to your industry. There's much less writing about what happens when you actually sit down and build something with it.
That's what this is. I work in paid media, SEO and automation, and I'm learning the AI side of it in real time. When something works, I explain how. When it breaks, I write that down too — usually it's the more useful post.
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