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      <title><![CDATA[How a Real Estate Agent Got 10 Hours Back Per Week With AI]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Marcus Webb is a good agent at Everytown Realty. He closes deals, knows his market, and clients trust him. But his day was consumed by the inbox, the spreadsheets, the lead-gen noise. Here is how automation gave him back his mornings — and 10 hours a week.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Agents, Skills, and Tools: What's the Difference?]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A prompt travels through distinct layers between your keystroke and the response. Each layer has one job.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[YAGNI: You Aren't Gonna Need It]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The Rapidan AI site went through three content management systems before landing on a folder of JSON files and a git push. The lesson is a classic one from software engineering: YAGNI. You are not gonna need it. Pick tools when you need them, not before.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Heart of Gold Tour: Course Intro]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A tour of the Heart of Gold home lab and the story behind Rapidan Intelligent Automation — from a gaming PC to a full agentic infrastructure stack.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Least Capable Model That Does the Job]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Most people reach for the biggest AI model every time. The smarter approach is to use the cheapest model that gets the work done and save the expensive ones for when they actually matter.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Five-Minute Intro to AI Agents]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A chatbot answers questions. An agent takes a task and works through it. Here is what that difference means in practice, with one concrete example.]]></description>
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