I Built an AI News Desk for My MMA Site. Here's What Actually Worked.

My first prompt was: "You are a sports journalist. Write a 400-word article about this UFC event." A friend texted me "bro this reads like a bot wrote it." Three published pieces in. Fair. The Stack GidStats.com runs on a custom CMS with structured fight data across UFC, PFL, LFA, DWCS. The news pipeline sits on top of that. Playwright scrapes official promotion feeds, a webhook fires a Claude API call with relevant database stats as context, output lands in staging for review before anything...