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AI Engineering
Break open-source AI tools for learning
@LearnWithBrij recommends instead of trying to learn about AI from tutorials, try immersing yourself in openly available tools like OpenClaw, n8n and Ollama (as well as others) to try integrating them into your workflow, breaking them and learning how to be an AI engineer in the process.
Try a suite of open-source tools to build better AI agents
@damkina7 has an interesting write up showcasing lesser known open-source tools to fine-tune your own custom AI-agents or potential AI "employees" (tools include Storm, Agno and Cline)
Try the open-source reverse-skill for better security with AI
@bigaiguy His tweet showcases a rising security functionality that one can integrate with different AI agents to help arbitrage security problems, called reverse-skill. Worth taking a look perhaps for security work.
Build agent failure write-ups
@gadi_neelesh recommends making logs of agent failures when updating your codebase rather than focusing on agent benchmarks. Makes sense especially if agents are built on fixing patterns but don't have context of your codebase complexities. Give them a roadmap for the wrong way of doing things so they can learn from it and do better in the future.
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Social Media Marketing
Youtube's automated deactivation problem
@TierlistMan39 along with others on youtube are facing increasing challenges from opaque algorithms that will demonetize channels individuals have presumably done significant work for, forcing many to speak out about the problem. A warning about some of the difficulties creating a sustainable income from youtube.
Importance of a social presence
@anulagarwal mentions the benefit of developing a social presence can change one's career trajectory and open doors even if some posts many people don't care about, it's still worth the long term effort.
Are LinkedIn newsletters the easiest way to grow your list?
@jayclouse discusses a case study of the Vojtech newsletter which relied on Linkedin's newsletter functionality to build his subscribers for his own list of subscribers in Kit. A key lesson being how social media distribution can help one find subscribers for newsletters.
Stay within legal lanes with youtube for success
@robertoblake mentions youtube can still be a great place to grow an audience despite difficulties mentioned from other creators as long as you follow common sense legal rules like copyright
Platform burnout
@Boldyboy1975 mentions that while on the surface, platforms look to reward originality rather than clipped or borrowed content or AI content, then reality is much more complex, with burned out creators, low or slow pay and lack of clarity.
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SEO
Traditional SEO still works
@SEOKeval mentions that traditional SEO is still working for his clients ie no focus on PR or listicles. The basics are still working including optimizing keywords, but especially backlinks seem to be an underlying feature that helps websites standout irrespective of AI fixation.
How to automate SEO with Opus 5.5 (Full Course)
While I debated listing this given that automating SEO is usually not a good idea, still there are innovative takes on the matter. He mentions Viktor (and perhaps is financially invested in the project), which can ingest data from several sources including Google Search console, DataforSEO and Ahrefs to drill down on SEO strategies, isolate what is doing well and isolate backlink strategies base on competitor information. Not a bad read not just for the agent capabilities but the different SEO tools one can use to get a birdseye view of how one is doing and strategy to implement from an agent.
Design doesn't fix SEO problems
@therobertmay explains how a site redesign is not a solution to getting more customers ultimately. SEO is more important for driving customers because just because a site looks better doesn't mean it performs better if the fundamentals of SEO are incorporated.
SEO basics still important
@bunbeau suggests to not focus too much on recent trends in engineering for AI overviews, but instead focus on basic things like whether your website pages are indexed and long-tail keywords.
