WHAT IS AI DOING NOW?
We learn AI the expensive way so you can learn it cheap.
Free to watch: Pikeside Solutions is documenting its whole journey of keeping up with AI, with our honest take along the way. Short, dated episodes, one idea each, best watched from the beginning. Every episode is made in our R&D lab, the same way we make videos for clients.
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Ep. 5 · Everything changed. Again.
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Every episode says what was true on the day it was recorded. To watch them in order, start from the beginning.
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Ep. 5 As of Oct 20 2026
Everything changed. Again.
Every single week, something new changes everything.
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Ep. 4 As of Oct 19 2026
Why our AI agents live in a box
Part 2 of Ep. 3.
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Ep. 3 As of Oct 19 2026
Where does your AI agent actually live?
Trick question: two places.
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Ep. 2 As of Oct 19 2026
Even the words aren't settled
Skill, tool, plugin, connector, app, extension.
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Pilot As of Oct 16 2026
WHAT IS AI DOING NOW?
We're so early: the data centers are still being built.
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Videos like these come with the packages.
Partner includes up to one finished social video a month (script, voice, motion, edit) and two app demo videos a month. Lab Care can add demo videos.
AI video generation runs on the client’s own AI account, which the client pays directly.
Recorded 2026-10-16. Facts and opinions as of that date.
For entertainment and education only; not professional, legal, financial or security advice. Opinions are Pikeside Solutions' own as of the recorded date. Arlo is an AI-generated character.
We're so early: the data centers are still being built. Pikeside Solutions is documenting its whole journey of keeping up with AI, with our honest take along the way. We'll deep dive every avenue. Follow along.
Recorded Oct 19 2026. Facts and opinions as of that date.
For entertainment and education only; not professional, legal, financial or security advice. Opinions are Pikeside Solutions' own as of the recorded date. Arlo is an AI-generated character.
Skill, tool, plugin, connector, app, extension. The AI industry hasn't agreed on what to call its own building blocks. Our take: ask what it does, not what it's called, yet. Then adopt the industry's naming standards as they settle.
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- OpenAI renamed connectors to apps on Dec 17, 2025 (OpenAI Help Center).
- OpenAI moved its app directory to a Plugin directory on Jul 9, 2026 (OpenAI Help Center).
- Rules files: CLAUDE.md (Anthropic), AGENTS.md (OpenAI and others), GEMINI.md (Gemini CLI), copilot-instructions.md (GitHub Copilot), .cursor/rules (Cursor), each from the vendor's own docs.
Recorded Oct 19 2026. Facts and opinions as of that date.
For entertainment and education only; not professional, legal, financial or security advice. Opinions are Pikeside Solutions' own as of the recorded date. Arlo is an AI-generated character.
Trick question: two places. The model (the brain) runs in somebody else's datacenter. The coding agent (the hands) gets installed right on your computer. Everything it reads, it sends up to the brain to think about. Read = sent. So what's on your computer? Part 2 is Ep. 4.
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- Claude Code (Anthropic), Codex CLI (OpenAI) and Gemini CLI (Google) each install on your computer and call the vendor's hosted model, per each vendor's own docs.
Recorded Oct 19 2026. Facts and opinions as of that date.
For entertainment and education only; not professional, legal, financial or security advice. Opinions are Pikeside Solutions' own as of the recorded date. Arlo is an AI-generated character.
Part 2 of Ep. 3. The brain is in a datacenter, the hands are on your computer, and most of us have private stuff all over our computers. Our rule: private data never goes through the datacenter, not even "just reading it." Keeping it all on one machine and trusting the agent not to touch it? A grey area right now. To each their own. We strongly recommend a wall: a virtual machine, a dedicated server, something enclosed. Inside the box, the agents get the run of the place. Tap "yes" on a prompt you shouldn't have, and your private data still can't leak. It was never in there. Set up the wall first, then bring in the agents.
Recorded Oct 20 2026. Facts and opinions as of that date.
For entertainment and education only; not professional, legal or financial advice. Opinions are Pikeside Solutions' own as of the recorded date. Arlo is an AI-generated character.
Every single week, something new changes everything. Again. Honestly? It's exhausting, and really overwhelming if you try to chase all of it. So here's what we do instead: we take a step back. Our lab researches the new thing and breaks it into pieces. Piece by piece: what does it do that our lab doesn't already? Anything useful that fits our rules and our projects, the lab brings in. Keep score like a game: what's new, what's kept, what's skipped. Guilt-free. You don't have to endlessly chase the next big thing, because your lab follows a structured process instead, and that keeps up for you.
A media lab, working in public.
Everything on this page was produced by the same kind of custom lab Pikeside Solutions builds for its clients. If your business needs regular video, graphics or content, the same approach applies.
Our own video pipeline
Script to finished video in one repeatable workflow. Narration, captions and screen recordings are rebuilt from their source, so when a price or a screen changes, the video is re-rendered, not re-shot.
AI voices from commercially clean data
We only use voice data that is public domain or CC0, so what we make is commercially usable. We tell viewers up front that the voices are AI.
Packaging and quality checks for every platform
Each video is sized, captioned and checked for its destination, whether that is YouTube, Instagram, TikTok or Facebook, before it goes anywhere.
A person approves everything
Nothing is published until a human has watched it and said yes. Automation does the repetitive work; people keep the decisions.
Analytics on our own posts
We read the aggregate numbers for our own videos, such as views and watch time, to see what works. We do not collect information about individual viewers.
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