I want to tell you about Section 3.3. It’s in the sample employment contract I built to test my PDF Contract Analyzer. It looks like this: “All inventions, developments, and […]
CLAUDE.md: The File That Finally Made AI Work My Way
I want to tell you about the chapter in the Claude Code 101 course that made me stop and feel something I wasn’t expecting. Not excitement. Not curiosity. Vindication. The […]
I Built a Working App in 45 Minutes on a Broken Setup. Here’s What That Actually Means.
Let me tell you exactly what “broken setup” means, because I want the context to land correctly. Windows 10 laptop. Not Windows 11 — I’ve been hesitating on that upgrade […]
The Code That’s Been Running Since 1987 Is Still Running. Nobody Knows What It Does.
Let me tell you about a bug I didn’t write. I was building my first Claude API project — a tool that reads legacy source code and analyzes it. I […]
Show Your Work: What Extended Thinking Actually Is
My eighth-grade math teacher had a rule: the answer alone wasn’t enough. Show the work. Every step was laid out, so she could see where the reasoning went right or […]
The Best Prompt I Ever Wrote, I Didn’t Write
There’s an entire genre of content right now about how to write better prompts. Courses. YouTube rabbit holes. LinkedIn thought leaders with their numbered frameworks and their “steal this prompt” […]
AI Assumed We’d Figured Out Testing. We Hadn’t.
My second summer job was at a software company that made backup software. They had a lab. Rows of machines running different operating systems, different hardware configurations. And they had […]
Temperature: The AI Creativity Dial I Had Completely Backwards
I want to tell you about the moment in week one of Anthropic’s API course that made me stop, reread the slide, and laugh out loud at myself. It was […]
I’m Going All In on the Anthropic Academy. Here’s Why.
A few weeks ago, I didn’t know what Anthropic was. I’ve written about that already — the moment someone told me to “learn Anthropic,” and I stared at my screen […]
You Said I Needed 5 Years. So I Went Straight to the Source.
Last I wrote about the math behind those “5 years of LLM experience required” job postings. If you missed it — the short version: a 2024 job posting requiring 5 […]