Category: Builds
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AI agents across many services: read with SQL, write with approval
A design, running in production, that lets AI agents work with many services at once. They read any data with read-only SQL, and change data only through API calls that a person approves after a draft run on the real service.
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I don't need someone else's news algorithm anymore
news.lyabah.com picks the AI news I want, by rules I wrote in plain English, and explains its picks every day so I can fix the rules.
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Building an MCP server for YouTube subtitles
There is no official way to download someone else's YouTube subtitles. Here is the private endpoint everyone uses, the two traps that will eat your afternoon, and the boring fix for the wall at the end.
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Small, Sharp Services
In praise of tiny single-purpose services running behind a shared proxy — smaller blast radius, clearer thinking, calmer systems.