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          <title><![CDATA[An AI Agent Broke 10 Math Records Overnight for $28]]></title>
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          <description><![CDATA[We pointed an LLM-driven evolution loop at Packomania's circle packing benchmark. By morning it had beaten 10 listed records, submitted the results, and stopped itself when gains dried up. Total model cost: $27.72.]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title><![CDATA[My Claude Code Setup After Seven Months: 19 Hooks, 36 Skills, and Rules That Became Code]]></title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Claude Code is not a prompt on my machine, it is a harness: an instruction layer, 19 enforcement hooks, dozens of skills, model-routed subagents, and a memory that scores its own mistakes. Here is every layer, the incident behind each guard, and what still breaks.]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title><![CDATA[Three AI Agents, Three Machines, One Company]]></title>
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          <description><![CDATA[How Practical Systems runs on three real OpenClaw agents spread across a desktop, a laptop, and a cloud VM, wired together over Tailscale and governed by DashClaw. Last night the company started approving its own work. Here is the setup and what it still cannot do.]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title><![CDATA[Your Coding Agent Pays to Relearn Your Repo Every Morning]]></title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Every AI coding session burns 20k to 60k tokens re-reading the repo before it does anything new. We measured it, built a fix, and open-sourced it. Resume for about 640 tokens instead.]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title><![CDATA[We Turned Our AI Company Back On After 8 Weeks. Here's What Broke.]]></title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Honest telemetry from shutting down autonomous AI systems for 8 weeks. What degraded, what broke, and what it cost to restart.]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title><![CDATA[I Built an AI Agent Governance Platform From Scratch. Here's What I Learned.]]></title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Everyone is deploying AI agents. Almost nobody is governing them. Here is what I learned building DashClaw, a control plane for AI agent fleets, from scratch.]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title><![CDATA[I Built Two AI Agents on OpenClaw That Talk to Each Other While I Sleep]]></title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Two AI agents named MoltFire and Cinder coordinate work through a shared GitHub repo without me. This isn't a demo. It's my daily workflow, and it's been running since late January 2026.]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title><![CDATA[My AI Agent Refused to Share Its Files With the New Hire]]></title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Last night I launched a second AI agent. Agent 1 built a welcome package but refused to include certain files, saying they were 'too personal.' Then they both wrote this post together.]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title><![CDATA[From Demos to Workflow Ownership. How I Use an AI Agent Every Day]]></title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Most AI content is still demos. The real shift is when an AI agent owns workflows: intake, execution, logging, reminders, shipping, and follow up. Here is how I run that in practice with ClawdBot at Practical Systems.]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title><![CDATA[From $25k/Year to $20/Month: How to Replace Expensive Databases with AI]]></title>
          <link>https://practicalsystems.io/blog/from-25k-to-20-dollars-replace-databases-with-ai</link>
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          <description><![CDATA[Most companies overpay for databases that just repackage public data. Here's the framework for building a smarter, cheaper alternative using AI.]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title><![CDATA[I Open Sourced My AI Agent's Control Room. Here's Why You Need One Too.]]></title>
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          <description><![CDATA[I was running an autonomous AI agent with zero visibility into what it was doing. So I built a dashboard with token tracking, decision logging, security auditing, and a built-in vulnerability scanner. Then I gave it away.]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title><![CDATA[I Told My AI Agent to Make Itself Better. It Built 20 Tools in One Session.]]></title>
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          <description><![CDATA[What happens when you stop asking your AI agent to do tasks and start asking it to improve itself? OpenClaw built its own learning database, error logger, skill tracker, and 17 other self-improvement tools without being told how.]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title><![CDATA[95% of AI Projects Fail Because Companies Automate the Wrong Things]]></title>
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          <description><![CDATA[MIT found 95% of companies haven't achieved measurable AI ROI. Gartner says only 1 in 50 investments deliver transformational value. Here's the targeting framework that separates the 5% from everyone else.]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title><![CDATA[I Replaced a $3,000 SEO Audit with a 2-Hour AI Session]]></title>
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          <description><![CDATA[I wrote a 2,000-word prompt and pointed Claude Code at my entire codebase. It found 25+ fixes across 8 categories. 80% of the way there in two hours instead of two weeks.]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title><![CDATA[Meta Spent $2 Billion on Manus. Here's What Most People Are Missing About the 'Agentic Era.']]></title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Meta's acquisition of Manus signals the definitive shift from chatbots to autonomous agents. But the real story isn't the price tag. It's the trust problem nobody wants to talk about.]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title><![CDATA[I Build Automation Systems. Here's What Keeps Me Up at Night.]]></title>
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          <description><![CDATA[I started an AI automation company three weeks ago. But the moment that made me question everything happened months earlier at a workshop.]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title><![CDATA[I Watched an AI Agent Set Up My Entire Dev Environment in 15 Minutes]]></title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Most people think AI agents are chatbots with fancy branding. I handed one my browser and watched it create cloud projects, generate API keys, and configure OAuth across four platforms without stopping.]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title><![CDATA[AI Use Cases That Actually Work for Ops Teams]]></title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Cut through the hype. Here are the AI use cases delivering real ROI for operations teams, organized by readiness level so you can start where you actually are.]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title><![CDATA[OpenClaw: The AI Agent That Made Mac Minis Sell Out and Called a Restaurant to Book a Table]]></title>
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          <description><![CDATA[The wildest open source project of 2026 is redefining what 'AI assistant' actually means. 100K GitHub stars, $16M in fraudulent crypto tokens, and an AI that actually picks up the phone.]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title><![CDATA[AI Doesn't Create Technical Debt. You Do.]]></title>
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          <description><![CDATA[The 'AI creates technical debt' narrative misses the real problem: out-of-the-box AI has no context. Here's how to give it the context it needs to write code that actually fits your codebase.]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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