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      <description>What an AI operator actually does: producing real work through AI tools. Responsibilities, skills, org placement, and a copy-paste job description template.</description>
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      <description>AI project rescue, defined: a staged recovery framework for stalled chatbots, RAG, and automation pilots, plus how to decide rescue vs rebuild vs retire.</description>
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      <description>A senior engineer's triage playbook for broken vibe-coded apps: stabilize, diagnose, then decide refactor vs rewrite, with the risk order that matters.</description>
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      <description>n8n vs Mastra compared by an agency that ships both: visual workflows vs a TypeScript agent framework, when each wins, and how to combine them.</description>
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      <description>Vibe coding technical debt, quantified: the five debt types AI code accrues, what each costs to carry, and how remediation actually gets priced.</description>
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      <description>AI operator has two meanings: OpenAI's shut-down browser agent and a fast-growing job. What each is, why the product died, and why the role matters now.</description>
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