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23 posts tagged "Encoding Expertise"
The AI Interviewed a Woman Who Doesn't Exist. That Was the Point.
I spent a weekend building a sales executive who doesn't exist, handed her fifteen secrets, and let an AI try to pull them out. The fake expert was the point: it's the first time an interview had an answer key, so it could earn a score instead of a compliment. Here's what testing an AI honestly actually costs.
Encoded Judgment: How a Cheap Model Performs Like an Expensive One
I ran a product team that captured every customer question into a playbook before handing it off. That old loop is exactly how you make a cheap AI model carry expensive work.
Loop Engineering: For me it's about using dumber models and smarter code
My take on loop engineering: push judgment onto dumber, cheaper models and smarter code over time, so a long-running agent gets cheaper and more trustworthy with use.
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.
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.
You Vibe-Coded Something That Works. Here's How to Make It Real Without Touching the Code Yourself.
Vibe coding tools get you to a working draft in an afternoon. The next pass has a name and a shape. Five layers your AI can add for you.
Stop Debating Which LLM to Use, That's Not Where the Lock-in Happens
Swapping LLMs is easy. Swapping your organizational memory isn't. The real AI lock-in isn't the model — it's where your expertise, instructions, and institutional knowledge live. Keep it portable or lose your freedom.
The Extraction Pattern: How Companies Actually Start Using AI
Every company follows the same AI adoption pattern. Seven phases from scattered experiments through knowledge extraction to compound results where skills, artifacts, and outputs compound.
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