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All posts →- n8n vs Zapier vs Make: The Best Automation Platform for Non-Developers [Updated June 2026]Refreshed June 2026 with current pricing. Three tools dominate no-code automation — and they price so differently that the wrong pick can cost you 10x at scale. Here’s how Zapier, Make, and n8n actually compare now, and who each one is for.
- Europe Just Bought You Two More Years on AI Compliance — but the Transparency Clock Still Strikes in AugustThe EU quietly pushed its big high-risk AI deadline to December 2027, but transparency rules still arrive in August 2026. If you build or deploy AI, here’s the timeline that actually matters.
- Claude Tag Gives AI Agents Their Own Identity in Slack — and That Fixes a Real ProblemAnthropic launched Claude Tag, a Slack agent for Team and Enterprise plans that acts under its own identity instead of borrowing a user’s login. The agent-identity model is the quiet governance shift that makes AI agents safe to actually deploy.
- Agentjacking: A Fake Bug Report Can Now Hijack Your AI Coding AgentResearchers showed that a single planted error report can make popular AI coding agents run an attacker’s commands — with an 85% success rate and thousands of exposed organizations. Here’s how it works and what to do about it.
- OpenAI Just Handed Defenders an AI That Hunts and Patches Bugs — GPT-5.5-Cyber Is LiveOpenAI released GPT-5.5-Cyber to verified defenders, calling it its strongest model yet for finding and patching software vulnerabilities. The same AI muscle that helps attackers is now being pointed the other way — carefully.
- AI Agents Are Now a $206 Billion Line Item — and Every Enterprise Vendor Is Buying the “Execution Layer”Gartner says AI agent software spending will more than double to $206.5 billion this year, and a run of acquisitions shows what vendors are really paying for: the plumbing that lets agents act, not just advise.
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I’m Brad — I build and run AI and automation systems for a living, then write up the ones worth your attention. Everything here is tested in production before it’s published.
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