Practical AI, in writing.
Workflows, prompts, tools, and field notes from building production AI systems.Page 5 of 22
Why AI's First Idea Is Always the Boring One
AI can list 200 uses for a brick in seconds, but ask it for a real idea and you get squats and push ups. Here's the fix nobody tells you about.
The Prompt That Flatters You Is the One Lying
The AI prompt that sounds smartest is quietly agreeing with you. Here's the one-line fix that turns flattery into an honest, brutal answer.
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.