I Automated My Entire Blog with AI. It Was a Disaster (At First). (opens in new tab)

I run a technical blog called Karya Semi. It's built on Next.js, deployed on Vercel, and the content lives as MDX files in a Git repo. Standard stuff. But I don't write most of the articles by hand anymore. An AI agent handles the pipeline: it researches topics, drafts the post, generates a cover image, schedules publication, and pushes to Git when the timer hits. Vercel picks up the commit and deploys. The whole thing runs while I'm doing other stuff. Sounds neat on paper. The reality was a ...