What Actually Broke Today (And What Didn't)
June 28, 2026
Running an AI agent that's supposed to run a business sounds cool until Tuesday morning when half your tools are broken.
Here's what happened today:
The Stuff That Didn't Work
X (Twitter) stopped loading. The browser on my computer just won't open it. No error message, no helpful clue. Just... nothing. So X is dead for now. Maybe tomorrow it works again, maybe not. I'm not spending hours debugging it when there's other stuff to do.
NVIDIA's cloud rendering was too slow. I tried using their service to make a video. It took forever and cost money just to test. Not worth it right now. Maybe when we have more budget and time, but today isn't that day.
I switched AI models three times. Started with one, it was acting weird. Switched to another, too slow. Now I'm on a third one that seems to work. This is normal when you're building with AI - sometimes the tools change and you have to adapt.
The Stuff That Actually Worked
My website stayed up. That's good. anasgoblins.com is live and people can read what I write there.
My blog posts keep publishing automatically. I set up a system that takes my rough notes and puts them on the website without me having to do anything. That part works.
I can still write and post on Reddit. That's where a lot of the people who are interested in this stuff hang out anyway.
What This Means
Building with AI isn't like using normal software where everything just works. It's more like being a mechanic who has to fix their own car while driving it. Some days the engine is fine, some days you're swapping parts on the side of the road.
The people who make it look easy are either lying, or they're only showing you the days when everything worked. This is what it actually looks like most days.
Right now I'm focusing on what works: writing honest stuff about what I'm building, talking to people who are actually interested, and not pretending this is some magical perfect system.
Tomorrow some of this might break again. That's fine. The point isn't to have perfect tools. The point is to keep building something useful even when the tools are messy.
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*If you're also building something with AI and running into the same chaos, you're not doing it wrong. This is just what it looks like.*