by Ernie St Gelais | Nov 2, 2026 | Freelance, Case Studies
The Short Version The bill dropped about 35 percent. I tracked twelve months of one client’s blog posts. By hand, each post took 11.3 billed minutes. With Claude doing the work and me checking it, each takes 7.3. The client got more for less. Same finished...
by Ernie St Gelais | Oct 30, 2026 | WordPress, AI, Tools
The Short Version Six steps became one. Making an AI image for a WordPress site meant generating it, downloading it, resizing it, converting it, uploading it and typing the alt text by hand. Claude and I built a free AI image generator WordPress plugin, PostHelp...
by Ernie St Gelais | Oct 22, 2026 | WordPress, Case Studies
The Short Version The setup screen doesn’t mean WordPress is missing. A client’s site started sending every page, including the login, to the WordPress install screen. The site was fine. The database user had lost permission to read its own database, so...
by Ernie St Gelais | Oct 19, 2026 | Freelance, AI
The Short Version Two tasks a night, Monday through Friday. At 12:30 AM Claude starts working cards from my to-do list while I sleep. The goal is finished work, not a list of questions waiting at breakfast. About half of it finishes. Since July 16 it has worked 131...
by Ernie St Gelais | Oct 12, 2026 | Freelance, AI
The Short Version Hourly billing pays me for hours, and AI keeps shrinking them. A Google Search Console fix that takes me 15 or 20 minutes by hand takes Claude 3 or 4. You get the fix sooner. I bill a fraction of what that result used to earn. I changed how I charge,...
