Practical AI, in writing.
Workflows, prompts, tools, and field notes from building production AI systems.Page 9 of 22

Don't Install Claude Cowork Like This
Giving Claude Cowork access to your entire Mac is how files you actually need go missing. The 30-second fix that prevents it.

The One Line That Keeps AI From Breaking Your Stuff
One sentence added to every prompt that touches your files turns Claude from a loose cannon into something that asks before it wrecks anything.

The Hidden Button for Private AI Work
There's a Claude mode that forgets everything the second you close it. Perfect for sensitive work you don't want bleeding into every future chat.

ChatGPT Just Killed Canva
OpenAI's new image model finally renders usable text. One prompt produced a full magazine cover. Here's why that changes the design game.

Anthropic Just Shipped a Figma Killer
Claude Design turns text prompts into prototypes, decks, and one-pagers, reads your codebase to stay on-brand, and hands off straight to Claude Code.

Claude Can Click Your Mouse Now
Claude Cowork can control your desktop directly. Open apps, drive the browser, fill spreadsheets. No API. It just uses your computer like you would.

Cowork Projects Changed Everything
Cowork Projects give every job its own files, instructions, memory, and scheduled tasks. No more context bleeding between unrelated work.

Claude Just Hired Itself a Team
Cowork scheduled tasks let Claude run recurring work on autopilot. Set it once, pick a cadence, and the briefings and reports just show up.

Claude Plugins Turn It Into Your Employee
Cowork plugins bundle skills, connectors, and commands so Claude works like it was trained on your exact job. Here's what that looks like.

The Cowork Feature Nobody Is Using Right
Custom skills are what separate a generic Cowork from one that's actually yours. Here's how they work and why most people are sleeping on them.

Claude Cowork Runs Tasks While You Sleep
Scheduled tasks let Cowork work overnight on a cadence you set. Wake up to briefings, reports, and cleanup already done.

Claude Routines Just Made Your One-Off Prompts Look Prehistoric
Anthropic's new routines feature is the shift from prompts to systems. If you're still opening AI and starting from scratch every time, you're playing the game the hard way.