Setting up GitHub and choosing your AI-enabled coding toolset I can’t code my way out of a wet paper bag. I’ve tried. I’ve lived through the eras of Perl, Java, and JavaScript, and honestly, programming languages just don’t click for me. I can’t look at a blank window and think, “Okay I know how to…
And You Can Too. For free. And it’s not hard at all. Towards the end of last year, I had this crazy idea to automate finding and storing articles I think are interesting into a NotebookLM notebook. Well, that plan didn’t actually work out. What did work out, though, was making my first Chrome extension….
We can’t teach AI the way we taught Windows; the old models just don’t apply. I think a lot about how to teach technology to people. I’ve been doing it for over 15 years. Lots of hours agonizing over what order to do things. Has anything changed since the last time I taught the class?…
It’s not convenient, but it is necessary. I was listening to a Wall Street Journal tech update podcast, and they were talking about the increasing cost of compute. We can’t build data centers fast enough, so the price of compute is going up. We also can’t get chips fast enough, so the machines to put…
And now we can build even faster and easier than ever—and it’s awesome. A friend of mine posted on LinkedIn about running AI workshops with clients. Workshops where you get into the weeds on how people work. And it got to the inevitable question. Workflows I’ve banged this drum before and I’ll bang it again:…
I don’t think it will surprise you, but it’s also not what you might expect either. In nearly every workshop I hold, the same question comes up: Which AI should I use? It’s there a best or right one? Which one is the right one to pay for? First off, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude are…
Or how imploding an Artifact reminded me to not overthink things If you’d like access to the premium content mentioned, subscribe to 30 Plus Days of AI on Substack. The link to the smarter CRAFT prompt builder is at the end of the post. It’s an Artifact and takes the “dumb form” inputs you see…
Ted Lasso said a lot of smart things, “stay curious” but might be the best advice for today Anthropic released a really fascinating study today on AI, employment, and the future of work and to paraphrase William Gibson: The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed. Yes, AI is affecting the world of…
But I Love Doing AI Workshops Get on the waitlist to attend the first sessions of Basecamp Canada! I’ve been teaching technology for over fifteen years. From how to use and build websites with WordPress to podcasting basics, I’ve helped people who would say at the beginning of class “I don’t know if I can…
And that’s not just a good thing, that’s the point I kneecapped my Claude Writing Project about thirty minutes after I gave it an “upgrade.” Here’s what happened. After Part 2, I was enjoying having a writing system that actually seemed to work for me—Skills built based on Nick Quick’s VAST framework (Vocabulary, Architecture, Stance,…