https://dueclix.com/insights/ Practical thinking on AI, automation, software, digital products, and the systems behind modern businesses. en DUECLIX (PRIVATE) LIMITED Sun, 04 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT https://dueclix.com/insights/ai-coding-agents-public-screenshots/ https://dueclix.com/insights/ai-coding-agents-public-screenshots/ Glow Labs found more than 13,000 internal screenshots from 300+ organisations in public GitHub repositories, put there by AI coding agents solving a small workflow problem. How it happened, and what to check if anyone builds software for you with an agent. Engineering DueClix Engineering Sun, 04 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT https://dueclix.com/insights/ai-agent-deleted-48000-files/ https://dueclix.com/insights/ai-agent-deleted-48000-files/ A developer reported that an AI coding agent, running without approval prompts, deleted 48,218 project files and the Git history in 103 seconds. What went wrong, why Git was not a backup, and four settings to change before an agent touches your code. Business Systems DueClix Engineering Sun, 04 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT https://dueclix.com/insights/free-ai-agent-what-to-connect/ https://dueclix.com/insights/free-ai-agent-what-to-connect/ Meta's Muse for Small Business connects an AI agent to QuickBooks, Stripe, Shopify and your inbox for free. The approval button covers what it sends and spends, not what it reads. How to decide what to connect first. AI & Automation DueClix Engineering Thu, 01 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT https://dueclix.com/insights/google-ai-mode-website-clicks/ https://dueclix.com/insights/google-ai-mode-website-clicks/ A preregistered experiment with 1,100 US users found that Google's AI Mode cut the share of searches ending in a website visit by 18.8 points. What the study shows, what it does not, and what a small business website should change. Business Systems DueClix Engineering Thu, 01 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT https://dueclix.com/insights/ai-agent-skills-vetting/ https://dueclix.com/insights/ai-agent-skills-vetting/ ESET scanned almost 900,000 AI agent skills and found more than 3,000 malicious ones, built for credential theft, data exfiltration and remote code execution. What a skill really is, and a vetting checklist a small team can use. Engineering DueClix Engineering Thu, 01 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT https://dueclix.com/insights/rag-retrieval-not-hallucination/ https://dueclix.com/insights/rag-retrieval-not-hallucination/ When a retrieval system returns a confident wrong answer, the instinct is to blame the model or rewrite the prompt. Usually the model answered correctly from bad context. Four things fix more wrong answers than any prompt change. Engineering DueClix Engineering Wed, 23 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT https://dueclix.com/insights/what-running-ai-costs/ https://dueclix.com/insights/what-running-ai-costs/ Teams budget for tokens and are surprised by memory. The bill you watch is rarely the constraint that decides whether an AI system stays up — and the failure it produces looks like a slow product, not an invoice. Business Systems DueClix Engineering Wed, 23 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT https://dueclix.com/insights/self-host-or-buy-ai-stack/ https://dueclix.com/insights/self-host-or-buy-ai-stack/ The build-or-buy argument in AI is usually conducted as a matter of principle. It is better handled one component at a time, with a test: has this requirement stopped moving? AI & Automation DueClix Engineering Wed, 23 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT https://dueclix.com/insights/seo-as-data-modelling/ https://dueclix.com/insights/seo-as-data-modelling/ Most SEO bugs are two files disagreeing. DueClix Insights has one typed object per article and derives the title, meta, canonical, Open Graph, JSON-LD, sitemap and RSS from it — no CMS, no MDX, no new dependencies. Engineering DueClix Engineering Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT https://dueclix.com/insights/directory-spam-cleanup/ https://dueclix.com/insights/directory-spam-cleanup/ How we migrated a business directory where most listings were spam: keep everything as reversible drafts, reject the heuristic that would have hidden real companies, and learn from the rule that missed ALL-CAPS junk. Engineering DueClix Engineering Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT https://dueclix.com/insights/no-logo-wall/ https://dueclix.com/insights/no-logo-wall/ DueClix names a client only with their written approval, and that rule is enforced by a database constraint and a single allow-list gate rather than by good intentions. Why we built it that way, and what it costs us. Perspectives DueClix Engineering Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT https://dueclix.com/insights/ai-chatbots-vs-ai-agents/ https://dueclix.com/insights/ai-chatbots-vs-ai-agents/ A chatbot returns text. An agent changes something. The practical difference is four pieces of engineering — tools, permissions, a definition of done, and a record — and each one has a cost worth understanding before you build. AI & Automation DueClix Engineering Sat, 05 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT https://dueclix.com/insights/automation-trap/ https://dueclix.com/insights/automation-trap/ Automation does not improve a process, it multiplies it. Why manual friction is often load-bearing, how to tell whether a process is ready, and what to map before you build anything. AI & Automation DueClix Engineering Sat, 05 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT https://dueclix.com/insights/software-that-does-the-work/ https://dueclix.com/insights/software-that-does-the-work/ Systems of record store what people did. Systems that participate propose and execute within limits. What changes in the architecture: writes become the product, the audit log becomes a surface, and permissions move from roles to actions. Business Systems DueClix Engineering Sat, 05 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT