How AI agents run half my startup: smart deals, trades, services marketplace, dev process, and security testing
I use AI agents across roughly half of my startup, including search, security testing, development, and affiliate integrations. - **Smart Shopping Deals search:** It never relies on a single AI provider. I use a chain of backup providers for LLM-based search and embeddings with pgvector. If one provider fails or times out, the system silently retries with the next. A slow provider never hangs the request, and users never see the failure. In the worst case, the system falls back to plain search. - **Security testing:** I run the autonomous AI security agent Strix against my live preview after every deploy. It actively attacks the app the way a hacker would. - **Development workflow:** My real “team” is a four-layer testing rule enforced by the AI itself. Every feature has to ship with backend tests, component tests, full browser end-to-end tests, and test-data setup, all in the same commit. Claude Code doesn’t consider a feature “done” until all four exist—not just the code. - **Affiliate parsing:** One parser handles every affiliate network. I paste in the raw ad code from any network, and the same parser automatically extracts the banner link, image, and destination URL. No network-specific code is needed.
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