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Oliver Buchannon
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I Built an Agent to Find Sales Leads. Four Were Useless.

Jul 27, 2026

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7 min read

I Built an Agent to Find Sales Leads. Four Were Useless.

I built an agent to catch businesses the moment they need to hire a cleaner. It worked. Then I read the company names.

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I built an agent to tell me about weekend events. It quietly skipped a third of them.

Jul 9, 2026

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8 min read

I built an agent to tell me about weekend events. It quietly skipped a third of them.

It took an evening to build and worked on the first try. Then I read what it left out.

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I built an agent to do my wife's grocery order. It can add to the cart but never check out.

Jun 20, 2026

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8 min read

I built an agent to do my wife's grocery order. It can add to the cart but never check out.

Before you hand an AI agent the keys to your real account, read this. The public API blocked half my plan, including the one thing I was glad it couldn't do. The exact prompt's at the bottom, so you skip every wall I hit.

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I built a fantasy football agent in an hour. It lied to me four times.

Jun 7, 2026

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8 min read

I built a fantasy football agent in an hour. It lied to me four times.

The demo always works. This is the messy part after it, where real data quietly breaks things and nothing crashes to warn you. Plus the exact prompt to skip my mistakes.

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