I let AI run two blogs for a month. Google indexed 1 post out of 81.

I built two fully automated blog pipelines. Pick a topic, research it, write the body, generate the images, publish — no human in the loop. One was WordPress on its own domain, the other was Blogspot. WordPress ran from July 23 to August 23 and shipped 44 posts. Blogspot started August 8 and stopped on … Read more

I thought my pipeline retried 6 times. It was making up to 48 billed calls.

My publishing pipeline had a retry limit. MAX_TOPIC_ATTEMPTS = 6. If a draft failed validation — too short, dead link, too similar to an existing post — it would throw the topic away and try a different one, up to six times, then give up. Six attempts. That was the mental model. Six is a … Read more