The Taku Blog
Ideas worth building on.
Stories, product notes, and perspectives on how AI gets discovered, used, remixed, and shared.
August 25, 2026
AI Agent Orchestration: Patterns for Coordinating Multiple Agents
Multi-agent orchestration patterns, when a second agent actually helps, and why most tasks that look like they need a team need one agent with better tools.
August 25, 2026
AI for Business Operations: Where It Works and What to Measure
Practical AI for operations teams — the four jobs it reliably does, how to choose a first project, and the measurement that proves it worked.
August 25, 2026
AI To-Do Lists and Task Managers: What AI Actually Adds
AI task managers promise automatic prioritization and scheduling. What genuinely helps, what's a gimmick, and why capture speed still beats everything.
August 25, 2026
Best AI IDE in 2026: Editor, Extension, or Terminal Agent
AI IDEs, editor extensions, and terminal agents solve different parts of coding. What each is good at, and how to pick without switching editors.
August 25, 2026
Cloud-Based Workflow Systems: Service Management and Automation
Cloud-based workflow tools split into service management and general automation. What each solves, the questions that decide it, and when neither is needed.
August 25, 2026
How to Scale Marketing With AI Without Diluting It
Scaling marketing with AI works when you scale research and production, not judgment. What compounds, what backfires, and how to measure it.
August 25, 2026
Intelligent Automation Use Cases: Examples That Actually Ship
Real intelligent automation examples by function — finance, HR, support, operations — with the pattern they share and the ones that quietly fail.
August 25, 2026
No-Code AI and Machine Learning: What You Can Actually Build
No-code ML covers AutoML, prebuilt AI services, and model fine-tuning. Which to use, where the ceiling is, and the part no tool does for you.
August 25, 2026
Power Virtual Agents Is Now Copilot Studio: What Changed
Power Virtual Agents became Microsoft Copilot Studio. What carried over, what's genuinely new, and how the harness you pick changes billing.
August 24, 2026
A Practical Guide to Building Agents (Start With the Loop)
How to build an AI agent that works — the eighty-line loop underneath every framework, the four things that decide reliability, and what to add when.
August 24, 2026
Agentic AI Use Cases That Are Actually Working in 2026
Where agentic AI is genuinely deployed today, sorted by how reliable each is — plus the property that predicts whether a use case will work.
August 24, 2026
AI Data Visualization Tools: What Works and What to Verify
AI can generate charts from a question, but the risk moved from making charts to trusting them. What these tools do well and how to check the output.
August 24, 2026
Business Process Automation Benefits: How to Measure Them Honestly
The real benefits of business process automation, which ones show up in the numbers, and how to measure return without counting hours that were never freed.
August 24, 2026
ChatGPT on Linux: Every Option That Actually Works
There's no official ChatGPT desktop app for Linux. The realistic options — browser, PWA, community clients, and API tools — and which to pick.
August 24, 2026
Cloud Automation Tools: Provisioning, Config, and Cost
Cloud automation splits into four layers with different tools. What each solves, why mixing them causes drift, and how to pick without over-engineering.
August 24, 2026
Data Automation Tools: Ingestion, Transformation, and Quality
Data automation software splits into four stages. What each solves, why buying ingestion beats building it, and the stage most teams skip.
August 24, 2026
Email Automation Tools: Marketing, Sales, and Where AI Helps
Email automation splits into marketing, sales, and transactional. What each needs, where AI genuinely helps, and the deliverability rules that decide results.
August 24, 2026
Enterprise Automation Platform: Consolidate or Keep Point Tools?
When an enterprise automation platform beats separate tools, what consolidation actually costs, and the governance questions that decide the outcome.
August 24, 2026
UI Builders: Visual, Component-Based, and AI-Generated
UI builders split into three kinds with different exits. What each produces, the handoff problem that decides everything, and how to avoid a rewrite.
August 20, 2026
AI Agent Companies: How to Read the Landscape in 2026
AI agent companies fall into five categories with very different odds. How to tell platforms from wrappers, and the questions that separate them.
August 20, 2026
AI vs Automation: What's Actually Different, and When to Use Which
Automation follows rules; AI makes judgments. The real difference, why intelligent automation combines both, and a test for which one your task needs.
August 20, 2026
AI Tools for Social Media: What to Automate and What Not To
Social media automation works for scheduling, repurposing, and drafting. Where AI genuinely helps, what kills accounts, and a realistic starting stack.
August 20, 2026
Can You Create an App Only Using Python? Yes, With Caveats
Python can build web apps, desktop apps, and mobile apps end to end. Where it's genuinely the right call, and the three places it stops being one.
August 20, 2026
Conversational AI Companies: Categories and How to Choose
Conversational AI vendors split into voice, chat, and platform builders. What separates them, the questions that matter, and when you don't need one.
