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Inside a Claude Skill: The Eight Steps That Build the Red Dot skill
I open the hood on the Claude Skill that builds mirror assessments — the eight-step pipeline, the single spec it compiles, and the checker that won't ship broken.
How a Claude Skill Converts Leads With a Quiz
I gave a one-page brief to a new Claude Skill and got back a working lead-gen quiz — a design doc and a hostable assessment. Here's how the skill does it.
Everyone needs a Custom Assessment
Everyone needs a custom assessment, and when you think of your own experiences, you'll agree with me.
Five Paradigm Shifts You Need to Embrace About AI
Five paradigm shifts from three years building with AI: design time over runtime, judgment over prompts, real feedback loops, conversation, and knowledge that's built, not stored.
How to Tell If Your Scoreboard Is Lying to You
A pizza shop's flyer contest shows why your AI scoreboard can climb while the work gets worse - and why a measure that can't be gamed is the real job.
Knowledge Isn't Stored. It's Built.
Why storage is the wrong question for knowledge, and how decomposing content into a graph builds answers no document ever held. The MCode Coach story.
Ten Conversations to have with Claude before Vibe Coding
One prompt gets you something. Ten conversations get you something better. Here are the ten you should have with Claude before any code gets written.
How to Stop Burning AI Budget Without Stopping What AI Lets You Do
Companies are blowing through AI budgets, but pricing isn't the real cause. Two habits keep my bills flat without rolling back what AI lets me do.
The Key Comes Before the Song
When you build with AI doing the content generation, the obvious move is QA at the end. But if that's your whole strategy, you sat down at the piano without picking a key. Here's how I'm thinking about evals for a new product — and why guardrails belong upstream, not downstream.
Use Claude to get you questions, not answers
Most Claude sessions produce transcripts because users ask for answers. The posture that produces real specifications looks different. Here's what it requires.
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