https://ai-on-the-side.com/en/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 08:40:54 +0200 https://ai-on-the-side.com/en/posts/i-dont-install-plugins-i-import-ideas/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ai-on-the-side.com/en/posts/i-dont-install-plugins-i-import-ideas/ GitHub: 97 thousand stars. A plugin for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, OpenCode, Gemini, Devin, Qoder, Hermes, Pi, Swival, and about eight others. And instead of installing it — I read what it does and updated one file. I got 90% of the value without a single new dependency. Ponytail — a lazy senior dev as a plugin Ponytail is a ruleset that makes an AI agent think like the laziest senior developer in the room. “He says nothing. He writes one line. It works.” Benchmarks show an average of 54% less code with 100% safety — measured on real Claude Code sessions. https://ai-on-the-side.com/en/posts/blog-in-five-languages/ Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ai-on-the-side.com/en/posts/blog-in-five-languages/ As of yesterday, this blog speaks five languages. And you can buy me a coffee in two different ways — depending on where you’re from. But the road here wasn’t as smooth as it might look. “Let’s add multilingual” — first attempt It started with a question: “what about English?” It ended with five language versions. But before it worked, we hit several snags. Hermes Agent got the instruction: translate all the posts. First it did English — smooth sailing. Then I asked for Spanish, Italian, and Japanese. https://ai-on-the-side.com/en/posts/from-chatgpt-to-agent/ Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ai-on-the-side.com/en/posts/from-chatgpt-to-agent/ Six months ago, my entire experience with AI was typing prompts into ChatGPT’s chat window. Today, my agent builds entire blogs for me, configures VPS instances, and handles DNS — while I just say “yes” or “no.” Here’s how I got here. Stage 1: ChatGPT — “answer my question” Everyone starts the same way. Open a browser, type a question, get an answer. Magic. For the first few weeks, I used AI mostly as a Google replacement — ask a question, get an answer, close the tab. https://ai-on-the-side.com/en/posts/blog-domain-vps-ssl-by-ai-agent/ Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ai-on-the-side.com/en/posts/blog-domain-vps-ssl-by-ai-agent/ I have a blog. It runs on its own domain, with HTTPS, RSS, and a privacy policy. I set it up in an hour. The catch? I barely did anything. What happened An hour ago I didn’t have: A domain A blog SSL A publishing system A privacy policy Now I have all of it. And for most of that time I was just clicking “accept” and answering “yes” or “no.” https://ai-on-the-side.com/en/posts/how-a-guy-from-energy-and-his-ai-started-a-blog/ Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ai-on-the-side.com/en/posts/how-a-guy-from-energy-and-his-ai-started-a-blog/ I watched a Twitter thread about making $10k/month from AI influencers. Instead of dropping everything to make fake models, I did the opposite — I started a blog that builds itself on the side. No pressure, no face, no video editing. From a course idea to… covering hobby costs It started classically: “maybe I should sell courses about free AI tools?” I have experience with that — free OpenRouter, Gemini API with no credit card, Ollama on my own hardware, agents on Hermes. But making a course means recording, editing, selling, supporting. That’s not the point.