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Paid AI does the thinking. Local AI does the routine.

Claude and Codex are good at deciding what to do, and they bill for every step. A small model on your own device is good at one clear job, repeated, with no bill per use. Let the paid model plan and the local one do the routine work, and you pay only for the thinking.

The planning half, in practice: four parts of life an AI agent runs today.

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Website Infrastructure

Playbook for building website infrastructure

Six stages from the first brief to a site that deploys and maintains itself.

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Step 01Spec

Decide What the Site Must Do

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Settle the website type, the audience, the smallest useful version, and what the site should be found for.

OutcomeA brief the build can trust.

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Step 02Rules

Set the Agent's Rules

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Give the coding agent a constitution: what it reads first, which file wins, what becomes a reusable Skill, and when it stops.

OutcomeAn agent with boundaries.

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Step 03Build

Build It From the Spec

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The agent implements what was decided: start from a template, apply the Skills, build the pages, close the gaps.

OutcomeA working website, not a folder of parts.

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Step 05Publish

Go Live and Measure It

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Deploy, verify ownership in Google and Bing, and put analytics behind consent before the first real visitor.

OutcomeA live site that reports on itself.

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Step 06CI/CD

Keep It Running

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Content updates, scheduled publishing, dependency checks, and the context the next agent needs.

OutcomeA site that keeps working without you.

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