11 posts across Directing AI, Judging AI, Supervising Agents, Systems & Adoption
Claude's creative connectors, ChatGPT's custom instructions, and GPT-5.5's shorter answers all expanded how much you can tell an AI tool before you start. The upgrade only pays off if you fill the room.
4 min readMIT Sloan tested AI-generated financial advice against real outcomes and found the quality of the prompt, not the model, decided who ended up ahead. Here's the structure that closes the gap.
4 min readAI can read more than you can and is confidently wrong about what it read. For researchers, that's a specific and manageable risk. Here's how to get the speed without inheriting a fabricated citation.
4 min readOpenAI tripled the custom instructions limit for paid users on July 15. The people who use this well will stop re-explaining themselves every conversation. Here's what a useful briefing document actually contains.
4 min readMost agent failures aren't reasoning failures. They're handover failures — the agent didn't know a thing everyone in your team knows and nobody has ever typed. Here's how to find those things before they cost you.
5 min readOpenAI replaced ChatGPT's default model on May 5. It's more accurate and gives 30% shorter answers. That's only useful if your prompts give it enough to work with.
4 min readAnthropic launched native connectors to 50+ professional creative tools — Adobe Creative Cloud, Blender, Autodesk, Ableton, Canva, and more. Connecting is the easy part. Getting useful output is a constraint problem.
5 min readAndrej Karpathy published a system that turns a folder of raw notes into a living, self-updating wiki — without writing a word of it himself. The practical version is closer than you think.
5 min readPrompt engineering isn't a secret vocabulary or a list of magic phrases. It's the skill of describing a task precisely enough that someone who can't ask you questions could still do it well. Here's what it actually involves.
5 min readNot tool tutorials — transferable skills that hold up when the tools change. Here are the ten capabilities that separate professionals who get consistent value from AI from those who get occasional wins and a lot of wasted time.
5 min readThe biggest gap in AI adoption isn't technical knowledge — it's the practical skill of knowing when and how to use AI effectively at work.
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