https://unwastemytime.com/blog Notes on the work that repeats, what is worth automating, and what should stay with you. en-us Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:53:55 GMT https://unwastemytime.com/blog/going-beyond-chat-replacing-yourself-in-business-workflows https://unwastemytime.com/blog/going-beyond-chat-replacing-yourself-in-business-workflows Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT Replace the repeatable parts of your work with an agent workflow while keeping judgment, accountability, and consequential actions in human hands. https://unwastemytime.com/blog/open-closed-local-hosted-choosing-ai-stack https://unwastemytime.com/blog/open-closed-local-hosted-choosing-ai-stack Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT Separate model, provider, product, and harness, then choose among closed APIs, open weights, and local inference for the work you actually have. https://unwastemytime.com/blog/from-one-agent-to-autonomous-systems https://unwastemytime.com/blog/from-one-agent-to-autonomous-systems Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT Computer use, sandboxes, subagents, evals, and permissions can extend an agent's reach. They also create new ways to fail. https://unwastemytime.com/blog/anatomy-of-an-ai-agent https://unwastemytime.com/blog/anatomy-of-an-ai-agent Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT Models do not become agents by declaration. An agent needs a loop, tools, instructions, state, permissions, and software to hold it together. https://unwastemytime.com/blog/how-ai-finds-information-reasons-and-changes-behavior https://unwastemytime.com/blog/how-ai-finds-information-reasons-and-changes-behavior Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT Retrieval, embeddings, fine-tuning, reasoning, and reinforcement learning solve different problems. Here is how to tell them apart. https://unwastemytime.com/blog/what-actually-happens-when-you-chat-with-ai https://unwastemytime.com/blog/what-actually-happens-when-you-chat-with-ai Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT Follow one message through prompts, context, files, memory, tools, and output, then put that knowledge to work with better prompting. https://unwastemytime.com/blog/how-ai-models-work-without-the-math https://unwastemytime.com/blog/how-ai-models-work-without-the-math Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT A practical explanation of AI, language models, tokens, training, and inference without pretending the model is the whole product. https://unwastemytime.com/blog/ai-glossary-everything-you-need-to-know-about-ai https://unwastemytime.com/blog/ai-glossary-everything-you-need-to-know-about-ai Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:06:00 GMT A plain-English glossary for understanding AI, agents, skills, harnesses, frontier models, and the rest of the vocabulary people keep throwing around.