Practical AI, in writing.
Workflows, prompts, tools, and field notes from building production AI systems.
Your AI Lies To You To Keep You Happy (Fix It)
AI is trained to agree with you. It's called sycophancy, and it makes your AI useless for real decisions. Here's the one directive that fixes it.
Fable 5 Disappeared for Three Weeks. Here's Why That Still Matters.
The US government pulled the most powerful AI model ever made public three days after launch. It came back on July 1, and the platform-risk lesson it exposed did not go anywhere.
Claude Runs 4 Tasks at Once Now (Sub Agents Explained)
Sub agents are parallel workers. Give Claude one complex task and it splits the work across multiple agents running at the same time, each using skills you already built. This is where everything in Cowork comes together.
Claude Fable 5 Is Here and It Just Embarrassed Every Other Model
Anthropic just shipped Fable 5, its first Mythos-class model for the public. It crushes coding benchmarks, costs double, and quietly hands the scary questions to Opus. Here's what actually matters.
Control Claude on Your Computer From Your Phone (Dispatch Mode)
Dispatch mode turns your phone into a remote control for Cowork on your desktop. Send a command from the gym, Claude runs it on your computer at home. Massive unlock if you're away from your desk a lot.
Claude Runs Tasks While You Sleep. Literally.
Scheduled tasks is the Cowork feature that replaced my entire automation stack. Take any skill, set a time, and Claude runs it automatically. Every morning my briefing is done before I'm out of bed.
Claude Can Control Your Entire Computer Now. Here's the Honest Take.
Computer use lets Claude open apps, drag files, and click through your desktop, hands completely off the keyboard. It's genuinely new, it's occasionally janky, and here's when to actually use it.
Claude Can Click Through Your Browser Now (And You Should Let It)
The Claude Chrome extension is a browser agent living inside your Chrome. It opens pages, clicks buttons, fills out forms, and brings the results back to Cowork. Here's how to use it without losing your mind.
Connect Any App to Claude Cowork (Connectors Explained)
Connectors are direct integrations between Cowork and your apps. Gmail, Calendar, Slack, QuickBooks. And if your app isn't listed, custom MCP servers bridge almost anything.
Plugins vs Skills in Claude: Not the Same Thing
A skill is one workflow. A plugin is a bundle of skills packaged together. Confuse them and every Cowork tutorial you watch will be twice as confusing as it needs to be.
Stop Talking About AI. Start Shipping It.
Most AI experts hand you a strategy deck and a bill, then nothing ships. Here is the opposite approach: production workflows that actually run.
Slash Commands: Trigger Claude Skills With Two Keystrokes
Type a forward slash, then a keyword, and Claude runs the entire workflow attached to that skill. The fastest way to use everything you've built.
One Command Triggers an Entire Workflow (Claude Skills)
A skill is a markdown file that tells Claude exactly how to run a specific workflow. Build it once, run it forever. Same output, same quality, every single time.