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In this video I interview Aaron Makelky about AI personal assistants like Claude Duet, Meta Muse, Grok Bot, and ChatGPT Dots, and why Claude Duet became my daily driver as someone who already lives in Claude Code. We cover which AI personal assistant you should actually use, plus the real jobs I hand off to Claude Duet.

🔗 Video References:

- ⁠Best Personal AI Agent Article

- Claude Duet

- Meta Muse

- Grok Bot

- ChatGPT Dots

- Hermes Agent

⏰ Time Stamps:

00:00 Introduction

02:55 Is Anthropic Nerfing Opus 5.5?

05:35 The AI Personal Assistant Battle

06:29 How AI Personal Assistants Differ From Claude Code

07:23 Proactive AI: It Pings You First

08:59 The Big 4: Claude Duet, Grok Bot, Meta Muse & Dots

10:27 Rate Limits and What Happened to Grok Bot

13:12 Which AI Personal Assistant Should You Use?

16:02 Where ChatGPT Dots Falls Short

19:00 Other AI Agents: OpenClaw, Manus, Instinct & Hermes

21:50 Why Keep a Backup AI Assistant?

22:59 How I Use Claude Duet as My AI Personal Assistant

26:14 Scheduled Tasks With Claude Duet

27:06 Automated Podcast Prep

29:10 X & LinkedIn Posts From My Transcripts

30:40 Digital PR Outreach With Claude Duet

33:44 Why Use Duet Instead of Claude Code?

38:30 Where Claude Duet Falls Short

40:34 Meta Muse Demo: Spaces (Personal Mini-Apps)

50:41 Final Thoughts

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In this video I interview Aaron Makelky about how to avoid AI slop when you use AI to write, design and repurpose content. We cover what separates AI content from AI slop, and the checks we each run before anything gets published.

🔗 Video References:

- Google's AI Spam Policies

- HyperFrames (HeyGen)

- How to Avoid AI Slop Article

- ⁠Impeccable⁠

⏰ Time Stamps:

00:00 Introduction

00:41 The Subsidized AI Plan Problem

04:25 What Is AI Slop?

06:30 Why Volume Doesn't Win Anymore

10:28 The Faceless Channel Grift

12:00 AI Content vs. AI Slop

13:18 The Anti-Slop System (Skill + Gate)

15:20 Two Levers Every Anti-Slop Skill Needs

16:28 Design Slop & Impeccable

18:29 Start With Your Own Words

20:28 One Video, Every Channel

21:49 Does AI Content Actually Rank?

23:54 What the Slop Version Looks Like

27:53 Does Google Penalize AI Content?

29:39 Aaron's Anti-Slop Writing Skill

32:23 Why You Need a design.md

34:47 Final Thoughts

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In this video I interview Aaron Makelky about how to vibe code a website if you're not a coder, using Claude Code, Codex, GitHub, Astro, and Cloudflare. We redesign a real local business website live with one slash command, and cover what it actually costs compared to a web agency (plus why we skip Lovable).

🔗 Video References:

- ⁠⁠The Finished Homepage (Preview Site)

- GitHub:

- Astro

- Cloudflare

- Impeccable

- DataForSEO

- Is It Agent Ready? (Cloudflare)

- Lovable is a Scam (Our Last Episode on This)

⏰ Time Stamps:

00:00 Introduction

02:04 The Best Way to Vibe Code a Website?

03:28 The Stack: Claude Code, Codex, GitHub, Astro & Cloudflare

07:22 What It Costs to Vibe Code a Website

08:11 The AI Wrapper Tax (Lovable, Replit, Bolt)

09:04 Live Build: Redesigning a Local Business Homepage

10:20 What You Need Before You Start

12:03 One Prompt + One Slash Command

15:30 How to Build Your Own Slash Commands

20:01 Why I Build Every Site on Astro

22:02 Speed, SEO & AI Agent Readiness

25:43 Prompting Like Ryan: One Sentence + Context

27:51 Agency Retainers vs. a Dollar of Tokens

30:02 Claude Code vs. Codex: Who Does What

33:06 EmDash: Do You Still Need a CMS?

36:17 What to Build First

37:39 Aaron's Vibe Coded Slide Deck App

41:29 Deploying the Homepage to a Preview Site

44:07 Final Thoughts

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In this video, we discuss the best free GitHub repos for non-coders, from SEO and PR to video and content. We cover which ones we actually use, and the safety check to run before you install any GitHub repository.

🔗 Video References:

- ⁠Aaron Makelky on YouTube⁠

- ⁠Aaron Makelky on X

- GitHub for Non-Coders (Our Last Episode)

- Best GitHub Repos for Marketing Article

⏰ Time Stamps:

00:00 Introduction

03:32 It Won't End Well for the Anti-AI Crowd

08:50 Your First Step: A Free GitHub Account

13:15 How to Use Any GitHub Repo (Safely)

13:44 My Free Claude Skills

15:16 Google Workspace CLI

16:40 Anthropic's Official Skills Repo

18:17 last30days for Trend Research

19:27 Firecrawl for Web Scraping

20:15 The Search Console MCP I Use Daily

22:56 OpenSEO: An Open Source Semrush Clone

25:52 Newsjack: An AI PR Team

27:53 HyperFrames by HeyGen

30:57 Postiz: Build Your Own Scheduler

34:16 Aaron's Picks: An AI Writing Audit

35:42 Herdr: One Terminal for Every Machine

37:28 Cloudflare OS and Whisper

38:46 Matt Pocock's Skills and Google's DESIGN.md

40:42 "You Didn't Show Me How": Where to Start

42:00 Final Thoughts

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In this video, Aaron Makelky and I discuss whether you should vibe code your own software or keep paying for SaaS, going through different categories of software. We cover which SaaS tools are still worth paying for, which ones we'd build ourselves, and why opportunity cost is the real question.

🔗 Video References:

- Aaron Makelky on YouTube

- Aaron Makelky on X

- Our AI Website Stack (Lovable Is a Scam)

⏰ Time Stamps:

00:00 Introduction

02:04 Build It or Buy It? The Questions to Ask

05:22 AI Website Builders (Lovable, Bolt, Replit)

08:15 Scheduling Apps: Is $10 a Month Worth It?

10:53 CRMs

13:31 Email Marketing

15:50 Course Platforms (Kajabi vs Skool)

17:14 Cloning a Kajabi Site in Under an Hour

18:45 Social Media Schedulers

22:39 Do You Still Need Zapier or n8n?

25:10 Are AI Writing Tools a Scam?

29:35 AI SEO Tools

33:54 AI Image + Video Tools

36:24 Design Software

39:57 Video Editing

43:15 Podcast Recording

44:48 Notes + Docs

47:28 Project Management

49:32 Meeting Recorders

51:29 Voice Dictation

53:27 Buy the Pipe, Build the Brain

54:53 Is Your SaaS Tool AI-Friendly?

57:17 Final Thoughts

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In this video I interview Aaron Makelky about the hidden tax you pay with Lovable and other AI website builders, and the Lovable alternative we both use to build websites instead. We cover how one of my AI-built websites outranks real local businesses on Google, plus which new AI tools are worth your time.

🔗 Video References:

- My Viral Post about Lovable

- Aaron Makelky on YouTube

- Aaron Makelky on X

- My Episode With Kasra Dash (Lovable SEO Data)

- AI Website Builder Study

⏰ Time Stamps:

00:00 Introduction

02:13 The Viral Lovable Post

03:13 What Is a Lovable Credit Worth?

05:12 Why Aaron Quit Lovable

06:59 The Website Stack We Use Instead

10:22 Why You Want Control Over Your Site

11:24 Does an AI-Built Site Get Traffic?

13:14 The AI Site That Outranks Real Businesses

19:24 What This Stack Actually Costs

21:18 Chase It or Ignore It

22:04 Gemini 4 Argon

25:00 Meta Muse

27:19 Instinct and Why Free AI Apps Want Your Data

31:21 Wobby

34:48 Hark

36:14 The New X Subscription

39:13 Claude Code Projects

43:49 Final Thoughts

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In this video I interview Aaron Makelky about how to use GitHub when you're not a coder, and why it works like Google Drive on steroids for your AI work. We cover how I run all my websites with GitHub, plus the free GitHub repos actually worth using.

🔗 Video References:- Aaron Makelky on YouTube

- Aaron Makelky on X

- Your AI App Should Not Own Your Work

- Anthropic Skills Repo

- HyperFrames by HeyGen

- Google Workspace CLI

- Google Search Console MCP

- Reverse Engineer Anything (REA)

⏰ Time Stamps:

00:00 Introduction

01:17 Why Non-Coders Need GitHub

02:38 GitHub Explained Simply

04:47 How I Run 7 Websites From GitHub

06:00 The Fake Septic Site Outranking Real Businesses

07:40 What Happens If You Cancel Lovable?

08:16 Why I Left WordPress for Good

11:04 GitHub as Your AI Assistant's Memory

13:09 Back Up Your AI Setup Automatically

13:50 Switch AI Assistants Without Starting Over

15:28 Why Not Just Use Google Drive?

16:55 Playbooks You Can Reuse or Sell

18:57 Watch Out for Prompt Injections

19:29 Aaron's Chief of Staff Repo

21:22 5 Free GitHub Repos Worth Using

25:10 Can You Clone Any App With AI?

29:47 Where to Start With GitHub

33:43 Final Thoughts

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In this video I interview Chris Panteli about his study of what ChatGPT cites when people ask it what to buy. We cover how to get cited in ChatGPT as a local business, and the one question to ask ChatGPT when it recommends your competitors instead of you.

🔗 Video References:

- Chris Panteli on X

- Linkifi

- Cloudflare Agent Readiness Tool

- How to Rank in ChatGPT Article

⏰ Time Stamps:

00:00 Introduction

01:38 Where to Start Getting Cited in ChatGPT

03:56 Does ChatGPT Still Trust Big Media?

05:51 Why Results Swing by Industry

06:51 Don't Test ChatGPT Through the API

08:04 Do Self-Promoting Listicles Work?

10:10 Inside the 21-Day ChatGPT Study

11:26 Why ChatGPT's Picks Look Random

12:40 Local vs National Results

15:43 How Local Businesses Get Cited

16:59 Why ChatGPT Recommends People

20:26 Does This Apply to Google AI Mode & Claude?

22:13 Why Brand Beats Every Trick

24:29 Agent-Ready Websites Are Next

27:41 Reverse-Engineer Who ChatGPT Picks

29:21 Final Thoughts

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In this video I interview Aaron Makelky about OpenAI's DevDay, the new ChatGPT Dots agent, and whether ChatGPT Pro is still worth it after the new plans. Aaron shares what Dots is actually like to use, and we cover whether ChatGPT Pro or Claude Max is the better deal right now.

🔗 Video References:

- ChatGPT Pro vs Claude Max Guide

- Aaron Makelky on YouTube

- Aaron Makelky on X

- Aaron's Dots Post

- ChatGPT Dots

- ChatGPT Plans

⏰ Time Stamps:

00:00 Introduction

00:36 What Is ChatGPT Dots?

01:17 First Impressions of Dots

02:27 ChatGPT's New Plans

03:45 More Air, Fewer Chips

05:26 How I Pick an AI Model for Each Task

07:35 Claude Sonnet 5.5 as a Workhorse

09:52 Claude Max vs ChatGPT Pro: A Complete 180

12:08 Gemini 4 Argon: Trust the Benchmarks?

14:44 Side-by-Side AI Model Tests

21:44 Inside ChatGPT Dots

22:51 Dots vs Grok Bot

27:15 Usage Limits & Ultrafast Mode

28:52 ChatGPT Space & the Ecosystem Play

30:42 Building Slides With Claude Opus 5.5

33:19 AI-Built Podcast Intros

35:23 Will AI Replace Human Editors?

36:17 Final Thoughts

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In this video I interview Besmir Bregasi about AI visibility tracking and how brands show up in ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and more. We cover the most accurate way to measure AI search results, and why getting mentioned on Reddit, YouTube and review sites usually beats posting more on your own website.

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🔗 Video References:

- Besmir Bregasi on LinkedIn

- ZeroRank

- AI Visibility Tools Article

⏰ Time Stamps:

00:00 Introduction

02:28 Why One AI Answer Tells You Nothing

03:51 Every AI Engine Pulls From Different Sources

05:19 How to Get Cited in AI Search

06:57 The Most Accurate Way to Measure AI Visibility

08:43 Do Listicles Still Work?

10:19 Which Offsite Signals Matter Most

11:54 AI Visibility Tracking: Inside ZeroRank

13:33 What to Do When Competitors Outrank You

16:43 What Makes ZeroRank Different

17:48 AI Visibility Tools vs Ahrefs and Semrush

19:14 Rapid Fire AI Search Questions

20:19 Which AI Engine Sends the Best Buyers

21:24 What Changes in the Next 12 Months

22:02 The One Thing to Do Right Now

23:31 Is SaaS Dead?

26:09 Final Thoughts