AI 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.
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Patin also has a AI as a Researcher role track — multi-step scenarios drawn from situations researchers actually hit, scored on judgement rather than recall.
Public sector AI use carries constraints the private sector doesn't: decisions must be explainable, records must be defensible, and the people affected can't take their custom elsewhere. Here's what that changes.
5 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 readAI is genuinely good at the mechanical half of analysis and unreliable at the half that matters. Here's where the line sits, and the four skills that let analysts move faster without shipping a confident wrong number.
5 min readOpenAI's own safety guidance for ChatGPT Work admits the system can produce 'finished mistakes at a scale that is harder to catch.' The same week, Wharton research killed prompt tricks and Cursor data showed a 46x productivity gap. The differentiator is now verification, not prompting.
6 min readUnit 42 tested 685,339 prompts and found 2.1 million AI-generated URLs — 13,229 already live and malicious. In one case, researchers predicted which domain an AI would hallucinate. Twenty-three days later, an attacker registered it and deployed a phishing kit.
4 min readMost of the effort in reviewing AI output goes on working out what you wanted while looking at what you got. Three sentences written beforehand turns a judgement into a comparison.
5 min readPatin turns these into five-minute drills that score what you write and tell you why. It's in closed beta — join the waitlist and we'll email you when your cohort opens.
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