
Agnel Nieves
Design engineer who builds the stack first and writes about it second, currently working out loud on AI visibility and Rust-era web tooling.
Twelve years across design, code, and product. Based in Puerto Rico, building basementbrowser.com, and running Promptway as a live notebook for the AI-native web.
Latest from Agnel
Getting Your Writing Seen Beyond Your Own Site
Your site is the canonical home. Everywhere else is a spoke that points back to it. Here is the full distribution stack, from full content feeds to IndexNow to Reddit, in the order I would build it.
From Invisible to Indexed: The Unglamorous Work of Getting Seen by AI Search
My site had all the fancy AI-optimization layers and still pointed at the wrong product. Here is the one-day plumbing pass that actually made it visible, in plain words.
Connecting Claude to Google Ads and GA4 via MCP
Claude, wired to a client's Google Ads and GA4 over MCP, ran a 90 day audit in one session. Here is the setup, the sharp edges, and what it found.
Optimizing for SEO, AEO, GEO, and AI Search in 2026
I took one site from 14.5 MB to 1 MB and watched the agentic browsing score go from 67 to 100. Most of what AI search rewards is embarrassingly old-fashioned.
Optimizing Your Site for AI Agents and LLMs
Your site has human visitors and AI visitors. Here is how to serve both, with llms.txt, inline LLM instructions, structured data, and machine-readable feeds.