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SOPs and the Art of Showing Other People

Anthropic recently released Claude Skills—a framework for packaging reusable workflows that Claude can execute on-demand. Think of them as Standard Operating Procedures for AI agents.

The DAVID Framework for AI Evaluations

A Framework for AI Evals That Actually Works

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Mines and Rabbit Holes #2

Welcome to Mines and Rabbit Holes #2. It is great to say that there is indeed a follow up and I hope you enjoy!

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Why Structured Training Will Triumph Over AI Edutainment

You can't be both the student and the teacher

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AI and Mental Masturbation

AI feels like a real conversation. It isn’t.

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Gaeilge

Cén Ghaeilge ar Clanker?

The word of the year. Focail na mbliana.

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Mines and Rabbit Holes

#1?

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Luxury as the Anti-Algorithm

Harnessing Human Imperfection and Bold Vision in an AI-Driven World

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The Soon-to-be Obsolete Skill of Prompt Engineering

300k -> 0k

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Train the Model, Train the Team

Why Documentation is the New Superpower

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The Blinking Cursor

Friend or Foe? Neither: Frenemy.

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ChatGPT Is the New MS-DOS

We Haven’t had the Windows 95 Moment Yet

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The Cognitive Collapse

How the Memory Paradox and AI Slide Are Undermining Human Intelligence

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The Great Cognitive Outsourcing

The New Terrain of Critical Thinking

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The Pyramid is Dead. Long Live the Diamond.

The Traditional Org Chart is Being Toppled by AI

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Curiosity and The Compression Imperative

Why We Hunt for Better Metaphors

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Leaky Abstractions Redux

Your AI Coding Assistant Keeps You Dry—Until It Doesn't

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Stairs, Slides, and Ladders

Navigating the AI Training Gap

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Re-Eval Your Life

A Holiday Guide to Better Questions

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an ode to code

programming languages >> natural languages

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Reducing the Activation Energy for Greatness

Making Greatness Default

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The Kaleidoscope Hypothesis for Education

Abstracting and synthesising our way in and out of novel problems

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Thinking More, Faster

Approaching the Speed of Thought for Content Creation

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Humans Only; AI Need Not Apply

AI aids development; but, without the human touch, it will never be accessible to all.

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Honey, The AI Shrunk the Language Divide

AI can be the great variance amplifier for minority languages

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Does Language Learning have to be like Tiktok?

You can escape the attention-mining rush and learn faster simply by reading what you like.

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Anyone in Need of Assistants?

DevDay for OpenAI brings AI agents to the masses

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Functional Filtering with ChatGPT

LLMs still going brrr thanks to timesaving with JSON outputs

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What is the Diglot Weave Method?

Diglot Weaving involves weaving or mixing two languages together. In the case of language learning, it is where sentences written in the learner’s native language have words from the language they want to learn mixed in.

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