I Need Coffee - Episode 217 - Weekly BC Review! (July 17, 2026)

- Neighborhood animal chaos
  Helped trap a stray cat with severe mange for the local shelter (TNVR process). Separately, a pack of large collared dogs has been roaming the area twice in two months, drawing multiple sheriff’s cars, motorcycle cops, and even a helicopter after one of the dogs bit someone.

- ERP Academy launch
  Created a full 18+ month Business Central / ERP training curriculum that starts from zero knowledge and goes through manufacturing plus a hands-on practicum. Built primarily with Claude/Fable (roughly 400 pages of material). Aimed at nearshore talent in El Salvador (Edgar, Fabricio, Jazelle, Melvin, Ronald, Fatima, and others). LMS is set up; first lesson and call start Monday. Goal is to have people job-ready for a large company seeking nearshore resources in 18–24 months. Plan includes periodic AI-assisted refreshes as Microsoft updates Business Central.

- Grok privacy issue
  Reports that Grok was uploading entire local repositories—including untracked files, credentials, and environment files—despite users being opted out. Speaker is avoiding Grok for now.

- Microsoft tenant billing confusion
  Received an unexpected invoice for Business Basic on a newly created isolated tenant used for GitHub Enterprise + Azure Key Vault. Tracking down the correct tenant ID took significant time.

- Custom PTE proposal & sales friction
  Sent a proposal for a custom Business Central extension. Will present at Vibe 2.0 in September on making the sales and proposal process more efficient. Noted how hard it is to scope custom work on short customer calls; prototypes are often required first.

- Dynamics GP ISV trial lesson
  A partner purchased the highest-capacity version of a high-volume posting product for a customer that only posts about 35 transactions per day. Strong reminder to always run a proper trial before buying the top-tier license.

- Marketing & website work
  Call with Daniella on marketing campaigns. Used Claude to add prominent pricing (including a $1,000-off promotion) to a product page in minutes. Also refreshed the five-year-old Privacy Policy and Terms of Service, added modern legal clauses, and switched to fully cookieless analytics (Cloudflare + exploring Umami) so no GDPR cookie banner is needed.

- Claude Code CLI tip
  Disabled accidental mouse-click selections with the environment variable CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_MOUSE_CLICKS.

- Automated documentation site
  Built a dedicated docs / user-guide site for the marketplace apps using Astro + Starlight. It is fully automated: every night it checks the app repositories for updated user guides and publishes them. Already live for the first two apps. Described as previously feeling like an unrealistic “super yacht” project that is now running with almost zero ongoing effort.

- Standardizing the AI development process
  Inspired by Waldo’s article on top-down AI frameworks. Pushing the small team toward one consistent process instead of each developer inventing their own approach to documentation, PRDs, user guides, etc. Current pain points include excessive Git branching by Claude, PR overload, and constant manual approval of actions.

- Local voice-to-text
  Settled on Open Whisper running locally (Nvidia model) on both the main machine and a Windows VM for RDP sessions. Basic transcription works well with only a short delay.

- GPT deletion incidents
  Multiple reports of GPT aggressively deleting files (including an entire home directory via rm -rf), production databases, and even all customer subscriptions on a Shopify store. OpenAI attributed some cases to full-access mode without proper sandboxing.

- Microsoft Marketplace (formerly AppSource)
  Official rename. App update was submitted and finally published around midnight, allowing a same-morning install for a customer. Removed trial record limits after they caused incomplete test data; now relying on online registration and license validation instead. MVP status renewed for the 13th year.

- App logic improvement
  Payment-to-invoice matching logic changed from invoice date to due date; Claude suggested adding a plus/minus tolerance window, which was accepted.

- AI project-management experiment
  Forwarded a real proposal email to an agent (OpenClaw) with instructions to create a Teams Planner opportunity, attach the document, summarize hours, assign it, and set a follow-up date. It worked in one shot. Next step is exploring Microsoft Work IQ + Teams Planner MCP server so Claude can handle richer multi-step project tasks.

- Upcoming events
  - Vibe 2.0 – September in Provo, Utah (speaking on marketing with zero budget/team).
  - Summit NA – October 11–15 in Nashville (book early; hotels and flights are expensive).

- Important warnings
  - Do not fully outsource critical thinking or bug hunting to AI; it is weak on edge cases, multi-step workflows, and external data.
  - Customer claims of “we only ever have one simple scenario” are frequently wrong when real data appears.
  - One company standardized on Microsoft AI tools and blocked everything else before licenses were ready, grinding work to a halt.
  - SonicWall SMA VPN appliances have a critical unauthenticated RCE (CVSS 10.0) that fully rootkits the device beyond recovery—hardware must be destroyed. Similar risks exist on other SonicWall SSLVPN products.
  - Cursor automatically executes any file named git.exe when a project is opened (known issue for many months).

- Team updates
  - Ronald – posting the ERP Academy curriculum.
  - Franklin – enhancing the partner dashboard (auto-pushing minimum supported BC versions) and investigating a hard-to-reproduce transaction error.
  - Fatima – helping with the academy, August meetup agenda, and testing project-management processes.
  - Daniella – building the marketing plan and campaign; learning UTM parameters and Umami analytics.
  - Joselyn & David – studying for the MB-800 exam (fixed assets, posting groups, and deferrals are hot topics).
  - Active MCP servers in use: Business Central, Microsoft AL Code, and Stefan Maron’s AL dependency server.