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    itsbydavid · The Blog

    Thinking out loud

    The personal blog of David Monzón — mostly AI and professional notes, with room for anything worth writing down.

    What this is

    Notes from building the thing, not commentary on it

    Four subjects, because they are the four I actually work in: whether AI systems can read a business, the manual work worth automating, the agents and MCP servers that let a model query real data, and what building all of it solo teaches. Written while doing the work rather than after reading about it.

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    A closed colonial door in Antigua Guatemala, with a thin red line running across the cobblestones and passing it by.
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    The most recommended hotel in Guatemala has a website machines can't read

    I asked four AI engines 240 questions about Guatemala and scanned 124 company websites. What decides who gets recommended is not what you think.

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    Personal AI is quietly replacing the apps you pay for
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    Personal AI is quietly replacing the apps you pay for

    Two teenagers turned a photo of lunch into a $30M app using AI you already have. Here is what personal AI does to the apps you pay for.

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    Questions

    What does this blog cover?

    AI visibility, automation, agents and MCP, and the occasional note on building alone. Every post comes out of client work or out of this site, which is why there are fewer of them than a content calendar would produce.

    Who writes it?

    David Monzón, and only David Monzón. No ghostwriter, no agency, no model drafting posts that get a human name attached. That is the same answer as everywhere else on this site: the person who scopes the work is the person who builds it.

    Is this an SEO blog?

    No, and the difference matters here more than it would elsewhere. An SEO blog exists to rank for a keyword and says whatever ranking requires. These posts exist because something was measured and the result was worth writing down, including the results that argue against what I sell.

    Where should I start?

    With the free check rather than with a post. It takes about ten seconds, it tells you what GPTBot and ClaudeBot actually receive from your site, and it will make whatever you read afterwards concrete instead of abstract.