Field Notes | Randy Too

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Budget 2027: what a Malaysian SME can actually claim for AI

October 23, 2026

Budget 2027 has no AI grant you can apply for yet. What a Malaysian SME can claim: a software allowance to 2030, a lower tax rate and HRD Corp training.

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Google now wants your alt text fact-checked too

October 20, 2026

Google’s 1 October update says AI-generated content needs a human fact-check, and it now names your titles, meta descriptions, schema and alt text. What changed, what got past my own team, and the checklist we use now.

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A working website in one day. This is the running order.

August 14, 2026

From business brief to a published website in one working day. The hour-by-hour running order, what each block produces, and what the person in the chair actually does.

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I rejected my own website. This is the rebuild.

August 12, 2026

I rejected the first version of this site the way I would reject weak vendor work. The full rebuild walkthrough: positioning, wireframe, design tokens, gates and launch.

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AI slop is a judgement problem, not a tool problem

August 11, 2026

The tool did not make it look cheap. Skipping the taste gate did. My actual process from wireframe to finished site, prompts included, plus one output I rejected.

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What an AI agent actually took off my week

August 4, 2026

AI did not take a job off my week. It took the waiting off. An honest ledger of what moved, what did not, and how I decide what to hand over.

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Half my impressions vanished. My clicks did not move.

July 28, 2026

One property I own lost half its Google impressions in a year and the clicks did not move. The real numbers, the queries that vanished, and what I changed because of it.

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From ChatGPT to Claude Code: how my AI stack evolved

July 13, 2026

My honest AI tool history from ChatGPT to Claude Code, why nothing got deprecated, and the guard rails that keep judgement human.

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The Musang King bet: real stories in a market of pranks

July 11, 2026

How the Musang King Channel grew past 300,000 subscribers with no ad spend: a bet on quality over pranks, real storytelling, and the discipline behind it.

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Building OpenMinds: a chocolate factory and two tables

July 9, 2026

How OpenMinds grew from two tables in a shared SS15 office and an RM1,500 chocolate client into a Malaysian digital group, and what the journey taught me.

Notes from the field.