22 posts.
You don't build an agent, you configure one, and it comes down to four decisions, none of which involve programming. The fourth is the one nobody mentions and the one that keeps you out of trouble.
A short AI workshop where everyone builds one real thing, the agenda, why each block is that long, and the fifteen minutes of scope-cutting that decides whether it works.
The safest way to use AI on a spreadsheet is to never let it hand you a number. Ask for the formula instead: it's auditable, it recalculates, and it's the one thing decades of spreadsheet research says actually catches errors.
In one week this month, Anthropic put Claude Cowork on phones and OpenAI shipped ChatGPT Work. Both do multi-step jobs with little supervision. Here's how to pick the first task to hand over, and the one to keep.
Most people use Claude like a chatbot and never touch the four built-in capabilities that do the real work: file creation, Projects, Artifacts, and web search. A plain-English tour of what each does, when to reach for it, and where each one bites.
AI cuts professional writing time by about 40%, but the study that found it used tasks with no real context and no relationships. Here's how to close that gap and get replies that actually sound like you wrote them.
Employers say they'll reskill workers for AI, 77% of them, but only about 13% of employees have actually received any training. A practical, do-it-yourself path to real AI literacy while you wait.
A hands-on companion to the commands-vs-skills-vs-plugins guide: build one genuinely useful thing in Claude Code, starting at the simplest rung and climbing exactly one step when you feel the ceiling.
Three words that get thrown around whenever people customize Claude Code, and a plain-English guide to what each one is, its trade-offs, and when to reach for it.
How to get AI action items from a meeting: a copy-the-prompt tutorial that turns a raw transcript into decisions, owners and due dates you can send out before the room has cooled.