<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Ben Mateev — What Actually Works</title><description>For people who want AI to do real work, not demos.</description><link>https://benmateev.com/</link><language>en</language><item><title>The routine that lied to me</title><link>https://benmateev.com/writing/the-routine-that-lied/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://benmateev.com/writing/the-routine-that-lied/</guid><description>A scheduled agent researches my newsletter every week. Twice it has been confidently wrong, and both failures were worth more than the research.</description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Two piles, then drafts</title><link>https://benmateev.com/writing/two-piles-then-drafts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://benmateev.com/writing/two-piles-then-drafts/</guid><description>Handing an agent my inbox for a week. The instruction that made it work was the one telling it to stop.</description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A month of invoices in one command</title><link>https://benmateev.com/writing/bookkeeping-in-one-command/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://benmateev.com/writing/bookkeeping-in-one-command/</guid><description>I built Claude a bookkeeping skill, then built a month designed to break it. It scored 100%. The same model without the skill scored 90%.</description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>