Building Your AI Intelligence Layer: The Systems Behind the Brief
Ricky Blaze's 'Rivergate Weekly Brief' didn't build itself. Here's the exact system architecture, data sources, and prompts that turn chaos into a one-page decision document.

Real lessons from implementations: what ships, what fails, and why.
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Connect Claude Code to external systems through the Model Context Protocol. Learn to integrate GitHub, databases, browsers, and custom APIs into your AI-powered workflow.

Scale Claude Code across your organization with VS Code and JetBrains integration, enterprise configuration, CI/CD automation, and security controls.
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Weekend vibe coding differs from production work. The professional workflow: structured prompts, staged tasks, test-first thinking, CLAUDE.md patterns.

76% of HR leaders say they'll fall behind without AI in 12-24 months. Here's the governance framework for scaling vibe coding across the enterprise.

Should AI agents have access to your API keys? We address the top 10 enterprise security objections with detailed technical solutions, compliance guidance, and practical implementation patterns using HashiCorp Vault.

After years of experimenting with AI tools, here's my actual daily stack. Not aspirational—what I genuinely use and why each tool earned its place.

I built the Elegant Software Solutions blog—Next.js, Supabase, 100+ articles—primarily through Claude Code. Here's what that experience teaches about AI development.

OpenAI's GPT Image 1.5 and Google's Nano Banana Pro landed weeks apart in December 2025. For the first time, we have two production-ready AI image generators competing at the highest level. Here's what CTOs and CMOs need to know—and why having both options changes everything.
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