Page 11 of Will's Journal.
This is page 11 of Will's Journal — a later slice of the archive, not the hub.
Writing on AI visibility, automation, agents, and websites — from Spurlock Studios.
Which notes are on page 11 of Will's Journal?
AI Agents Why did quality drop when we didn’t change our prompts
Quality dropped because a pin, tool schema, retrieval corpus, eval set, or traffic mix moved — not because you edited prompts. Isolate, then pin versions.
Websites Artist and Musician Websites That Convert Without Killing the Brand
Artist sites convert when the fold is identity first, then one listen, tour, or contact path — not a streaming dashboard or a gallery with no next step.
Automation Migrate Zapier to n8n Without a Big-Bang Cutover
Migrate Zapier to n8n with dual-run, webhook remaps, credential remaps, and a documented rollback. Rebuild by hand — no official importer as of mid-2026.
AI Agents Why did loading all my MCP tools blow the context window
Every MCP tool schema you attach is prompt tokens. Loading the whole catalog fills the window before the task starts—send a job-sized subset or a router.
AI Agents How do I monitor AI agents in production
Monitor production agents on traces, tool errors, cost per turn, human rewrite rate, and policy denials — not chatbot thumbs. That is the ops scoreboard.
AI Agents How big should my golden set be before soft-launch
Before soft-launch, size the golden set by coverage — happy, auth fail, empty tool, policy deny, money, ambiguous — not a magic N or vanity pass rate.
Automation Dead Letter Queues for Automations: Where Failed Work Goes to Be Fixed
Park failed n8n work in a dead-letter queue with a replay path. Unbounded retries on a bad payload become vendor rate-limit incidents instead of recovery.
Websites Motion That Survives Production
Every award-winning site is fast in the case study and janky on a mid-range Android. Here is what actually holds up once real users arrive.
AI Visibility DIY AEO for 30 Days — Hire When You’re Blind to Your Own Gaps
Yes — DIY Answer Engine Optimization for 30 days with a frozen prompt panel. Hire when you cannot see contradictions or the panel stalls after real fixes.
AI Agents Why does my agent keep calling the same failed tool
Your agent retries one failed tool because nothing fingerprints the call or caps same-tool executes. Escalate auth and policy on first hit — do not grind.
Websites My web designer disappeared — how do I get my website back
Take registrar, DNS, host, CMS, repo, then billing. You recover a vanished designer’s site by taking those six doors today — not by waiting for a reply.
Websites DIY Builders Win Validation — Hire When the Site Has to Earn Customers
DIY on Squarespace or Wix is right for validation; hire a designer when the site must earn customers, outrun competitors, or stop stealing your nights.
What should I know about this archive page?
- What is page 11 of Will's Journal?
- Page 11 of Will's Journal is a later slice of the archive, not the hub. The writing is on AI visibility, automation, agents, and websites — from Spurlock Studios.
- Where is the first page of Will's Journal?
- The first page is the hub at /blog. This URL is a later page of the same journal; previous and next links move through the rest of the archive.
- Is this a different journal than the hub?
- No. This is the same Will's Journal from Spurlock Studios — page 11 of the archive, after the notes on the first page.