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  • How to Build Enterprise RAG Systems on a Zero Dollar Budget
    Dec 13 2025

    Is your AI app suffering from "Goldfish Memory" or making up facts?

    In this episode of The Breakdown Podcast, we tackle the biggest hurdle in deploying reliable AI tools: Hallucinations. We unpack the RAG-Lite Protocol, a streamlined architectural pattern from the unreleased manifesto "Boring Problems, Big Money." Discover why you don't need expensive vector databases like Pinecone to build intelligent, context-aware systems in Google Apps Script.

    We explain how to transition from a "prompt engineer" to a "Context Architect" by building a "second brain" for your AI that lives entirely within your existing Google ecosystem.

    In this episode you’ll discover

    • The Goldfish Problem – Why LLMs forget your business rules instantly and how "Context Injection" solves this without retraining the model.

    • The Vector DB Trap – Why over-engineering with complex vector databases kills your profit margins and how to achieve 90% of the utility using simple arrays and text search.

    • Hallucination Defense – How to force the AI to answer "I don't know" instead of lying by restricting it to a specific, uploaded knowledge base.

    • Token Economics – How to drastically reduce your API costs by filtering data before you send it to the AI, rather than stuffing the entire context window.

    Stop paying for expensive infrastructure you don't need. Listen now to learn how to give your AI perfect recall for free.

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    26 mins
  • The Secret to Stealing Customers From Giant Competitors
    Dec 13 2025

    Are you intimidated by big competitors with unlimited budgets?

    In this episode of The Breakdown Podcast, we reveal why a competitor's size is actually their greatest weakness. We dissect the 1-Star Review Mandate, a tactical framework from the unreleased manifesto "Boring Problems, Big Money." Discover how to stop guessing what the market wants and start building the exact solution users are already begging for.

    We explain how to transition from a "me-too" developer to a strategic Architect by using Counter-Positioning to slice off the most profitable segment of a market.

    In this episode you’ll discover

    • The 1-Star Audit – How to systematically mine G2, Capterra, and App Store reviews to find the "bleeding neck" problems that incumbents refuse to fix.

    • The Bloat Trap – Why "feature parity" is a losing strategy and how building less can actually allow you to charge more.

    • The Anti-Feature – How to market your product as the specific antidote to your competitor's complexity, turning their biggest strength into a liability.

    • The Language of Pain – How to use the exact words from angry reviews in your landing page copy to achieve instant resonance with frustrated buyers.

    Stop fearing the giants. Listen now to learn how to turn their failures into your fortune.

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    29 mins
  • Conquer the Apps Script Six Minute Wall for Good
    Dec 13 2025

    Are your Apps Scripts failing right when the job gets interesting?

    In this episode of The Breakdown Podcast, we tackle the most frustrating technical roadblock for developers: the Google Apps Script 6-minute execution limit. This hard boundary prevents simple scripts from ever becoming resilient, enterprise-grade software.

    We introduce the Architect’s Continuation Pattern, a defensive programming strategy from the unreleased manifesto "Boring Problems, Big Money." This pattern transforms your fragile, single-run code into an autonomous, scalable asset that runs indefinitely.

    In this episode you’ll discover

    • The Six-Minute Wall – Why this hard execution boundary is actually an opportunity to architect better systems.

    • The Continuation Pattern – A step-by-step method to break large, long-running tasks into small, scheduled pieces.

    • Trigger Chaining – How to use time-driven triggers to queue up the next stage of your process, guaranteeing reliable completion without user input.

    • Selling Reliability – How conquering this technical hurdle allows you to move out of the "freelancer trap" and charge premium prices for stability.

    Stop watching your scripts fail. Listen now to learn how to build software that runs forever.

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    30 mins
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