The Taku Blog
Ideas worth building on.
Stories, product notes, and perspectives on how AI gets discovered, used, remixed, and shared.
September 18, 2026
What Is MCP? The Model Context Protocol, Explained
MCP is an open standard that connects AI models to tools and data. What the host, client, and server actually do, who governs it now, and how to use a server.
September 17, 2026
AI on Facebook: Meta AI Features, Controls and Privacy
Where Meta AI shows up on Facebook in 2026, which parts you can switch off, how AI labels work, and what Meta does with your posts and AI chats.
September 17, 2026
Real-Time AI: The Three Things It Actually Means
Real-time AI can mean AI on live data, AI you talk to live, or AI that knows today's news. How each works, why it's hard, and how to check a claim.
September 17, 2026
Best Free AI Tools for Digital Marketing, by Job
Free AI tools for digital marketing sorted by job: writing, design, video, SEO, email, and analytics. What's free, where limits bite, and a zero-budget stack.
September 17, 2026
ChatGPT Help: Reach Support and Fix Common Problems
Where to get ChatGPT help fast: reaching OpenAI support, checking if ChatGPT is down, fixing login, errors, limits, billing, and wrong answers.
September 17, 2026
Google HW Helper in 2026: Lens, Gemini, and Socratic
There's no single Google homework helper app anymore. Where Socratic went, how Lens, Circle to Search, and Gemini help, and the age rules.
September 17, 2026
Imagen 3 API: Shutdown Status and What to Use Instead
Google shut down every Imagen model, Imagen 3 included, on both the Gemini API and Vertex AI. The replacement model IDs and a migration checklist.
September 17, 2026
LLM Tool: What It Means and How Tool Calling Works
An LLM tool is usually a function a model can ask your app to run. How tool definitions, the call loop, and MCP work, plus the llm CLI and local runners.
September 17, 2026
AI Agents for Analytics: What They Do and Which to Pick
AI agents for analytics plan, query, and check their own work. How the Databricks, Snowflake, Microsoft, Google, ThoughtSpot, and Tableau agents compare.
September 17, 2026
Read Meeting Navigator: What It Shows and Records
Read Meeting Navigator is Read AI's live meeting dashboard. What it measures, who sees the scores and report, how consent works, and built-in alternatives.
September 16, 2026
AI Prompts for Business: What to Ask, by Function
Business prompts that hold up, organized by team — sales, marketing, finance, ops, HR — plus the context each one needs and the tasks to keep away from AI.
September 16, 2026
AI Prompts for Web Development: 8 Copyable Templates
Copyable AI prompts for web development: scaffolding, debugging, code review, refactoring, tests, audits, API design, and explaining code, plus why they work.
September 16, 2026
What Is a Web App? Web-Based Software, Explained Simply
A web app is software you run in a browser instead of installing. How web-based software differs from a website and a desktop app, and when each one wins.
September 16, 2026
Manus AI Founder: Who Built Manus and Who Runs It Now
Who founded Manus, who its CEO is, how Meta bought it and then had to unwind the deal, and what the 2026 separation means for your data.
September 16, 2026
Master Prompt: How to Write One You Actually Reuse
A master prompt is a reusable brief that sets context once instead of every chat. What goes in one, where to store it, and the built-in features that do it better.
September 16, 2026
Pieces vs GitHub Actions vs n8n: What Each Automates
Pieces, GitHub Actions, and n8n rarely compete. Where each one runs, what triggers it, and the API options that connect them into one dev workflow.
September 16, 2026
Prompt Engineering PDFs: Which Guides Are Actually Official
The Google prompt engineering white paper, plus the free guides from Anthropic, OpenAI and DAIR. Which are real PDFs, which aren't, and what each one is good for.
September 16, 2026
Python Build Automation: nox, tox, uv, Hatch and CI
How to automate test, lint, build and release for a Python project: nox vs tox vs uv vs Hatch vs Poetry, with a working noxfile and GitHub Actions workflow.
September 16, 2026
Startup Website Development: What to Build at Each Stage
How non-technical founders should get a startup website built in 2026: builders, AI tools, freelancers, or code, the pages you need, and what to skip.
September 16, 2026
Using AI to Start a Business: A Week-by-Week Guide
How to use AI to go from idea to first paying customer: validation, interviews, naming, a business plan, paperwork, a landing page, and first marketing.
September 14, 2026
AI Agent Developer: Role, Skills, and How to Start
What an AI agent developer actually does, the skills and stack the job needs, a realistic learning path, and when a business should hire one at all.
September 14, 2026
AI-Powered Virtual Try-On Tools: What Works in 2026
Google Try-On, Amazon, Perfect Corp, Snap, and IDM-VTON compared. How each type of virtual try-on works, where it's available, and what it gets wrong.
September 14, 2026
Anything AI App Builder: What It Is and Where It Fits
Anything (formerly Create) turns a chat into web and native mobile apps with database, auth, and payments built in. How it works, its limits, and who it suits.
September 14, 2026
Claude Prompt Improver: Retired, and What to Use Now
Anthropic retired the Claude prompt improver with the legacy Workbench in August 2026. What it did, why prompts got longer, and how to do it yourself.
