Tell us three things: 1. What you do (job, industry, student, career-changer, whatever) 2. What brought you to Clief Notes 3. One thing you're trying to figure out right now related to computing or AI I'll respond to every single one. And read each other's intros too because the person who's stuck on the same problem as you might already be in this thread. I'll go first I am Jake, I have been working in tech for 15 Years, building with Generative AI for 3 Years straight now! Excited to teach and learn! That's it. Simple, scannable, gives you data on who's joining and what they need, and keeps the feed clear for content that retains people past week one.

Inspired by @Curtis Hays, I finished an experiment that I had started a few weeks ago. I started my company as a local web design agency in 2014. I've pivoted a few times since, where our core offer is that of Fractional CMO services, but we still do some agency type work for existing clients, friends, and family. I was ready to throw in the towel on web builds just because they take so much time and I hadn't cracked the code on building sites with ongoing content. I finally got it this evening! We've gotten good at building unique sites using Claude with next.js, files live in github, website runs on vercel. This evening I was able to get a headless WordPress environment where I can add/edit/delete content, but the design still lives in Vercel! I realize this might seem like a small thing for some, but it's a ginormous win for the 8 SIGNAL team :D It's gonna save us sooooooo much time rebuilding from next.js to Elementor. Huge shoutout to Curtis. By sharing his win, he inspired me to dig further into this and figure it out! Here's the site that was previously just a "static" site on vercel, now all the content is coming from a wordpress install: https://century-rentals.vercel.app/ P.S. If you have a better way of managing websites that require a CMS and SEO/AEO, don't hold back. I won't be deflated. I'm always looking for ways to improve and do things better. P.P.S. Website's for a buddy, and still not finalized yet, so I'm taking some liberty to mess around with him about baseball because he knows less than I do, and I don't know much LOL!

Meta shipped a connector for Claude and ChatGPT on April 29 that runs write operations directly on your Facebook ad account, no API keys, no app review. Okay the title is half clickbait, but the substance behind it is the part nobody is covering correctly, so here goes. First, understand what Meta actually shipped. It's two surfaces. There's the Meta Ads MCP server, which is what you point Claude or ChatGPT at to control your ad account by talking to it. And there's a Meta Ads CLI, which is the same capability surfaced as a command line tool for engineering teams building internal pipelines. Both are in open beta, both are free, and both authenticate through a normal Meta login. That last part is the unlock honestly, because every prior attempt at agentic Meta ads required going through the Marketing API, which means dev credentials, app review, and business verification. The MCP server collapses that whole credential dance into clicking "log in with Meta." The capability itself is split into four buckets and they actually let you write, not just read. Reporting is the obvious one, pull performance, surface insights, the standard stuff. Campaign management is where it gets interesting because the agent can create and edit ads, ad sets, and full campaigns by natural language. Catalog management lets it build product catalogs and fix data feed problems. Signal diagnostics covers Conversions API health, learning phase status, and signal prioritization. Most third-party ad-MCP wrappers (AdKit shipped one for Google plus Meta on May 1, two days after Meta's own launch) are read-only, because writing to ad accounts through unofficial APIs is risky and Meta gates it hard. Meta's own connector doesn't have that limitation because Meta is the platform. Now the part where I'm not just selling it. It's open beta, so the rate limits and edge cases aren't fully documented. The bigger thing to know is the learning phase, which is roughly 50 optimization events that Meta uses to actually figure out who to show your ad to. If your agent edits a campaign mid-learning, the campaign resets and your performance tanks. Meta hasn't built guardrails for this yet, which means the agent has zero idea by default. You have to tell it. If you don't, you'll watch your CPA spike on the first day you let Claude touch your account and blame the connector when it was actually you. (fyi this is the same thing that happens to humans editing campaigns mid-learning, the AI just does it faster.)