Writing — essays and build notes by Marc Ocampo

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Lead story · Artificial Intelligence

I Built My First Agent to Fix Our Broken Data

By Marc Ocampo · October 2, 2026 · 10 min read

Our family resort's data was fragmented. This is how I built my first agent to fix it, and what I learned along the way.

“For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do.”
— Romans 7:15 (NKJV)

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