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Businesses still pay thousands for websites, and a lot of what they get is AI slop. Mark thinks that's one of the best openings right now.

Gael explains why he uses free Cloudflare hosting for static websites, and why that differs from paying for WordPress hosting.

Google Calendar availability, Stripe checkout, emails to both sides. Gael's AI built the booking system from scratch, styled to match the site.

Traffic going up doesn't mean you're making money. Gael's advice: find the traffic that converts and drop the rest.

Gael's done with WordPress. He clicks an element on his site, tells Claude Code "make it bigger," and that's the edit.

A free skill that flags AI slop on your pages so your agent fixes it. To install it, just give your agent the URL.

An agency would charge $3K to $5K for this site. Gael built it in Claude Code for nothing beyond his subscription, in under an hour of his own time.

Same prompts in Claude and GPT. The Claude site came out nicer. Gael's pick for web design right now: Opus 5.5.

I asked Kermit to set up our company plugin marketplace. About 40 minutes later, it tagged the team to say it was ready.

Review the local site, check staging, approve the update. Gael describes letting the agent handle GitHub and Cloudflare.

Nested boxes. Eyebrows everywhere. Mark and Gael talk about stripping the familiar AI look out of a website.

Mark's AI remembered a contract discussion, reviewed the reply and brought him the remaining issues before he asked.

I don't own a Windows PC. My AI coordinated a plugin fix and tested it on a rented one.

Mark and Gael discuss OpenAI's watermarking announcement and what location-based rules could mean for content creators.

That $11,726 Claude chart uses API-equivalent value. Gael explains why different token prices and tokens per task complicate the comparison.

A better benchmark score doesn't tell you whether an AI app fits your work. Mark and Gael explain what's keeping them in the app they use.

Gael shows Codex's system-wide dictation shortcut. One more separate software subscription he's reconsidering.

Mark's AI caught a payroll typo before the payments went out. The boring admin jobs are where this starts to feel useful.

I had Codex allowance left before a reset. I told my Dot to go find useful work and prepare it for me to review.

A hotel leaked my personal information. Now my AI is handling the back-and-forth with them.