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25 posts tagged "Encoding Expertise"
How Using Claude to Interview You Can Help You Build Skills (and Apps)
I asked Claude to interview me and got twelve questions back. I answered two. What worked better was having it guess first and let me correct it. Here are the project instructions I use now, and the four files that come out of an interview.
The Key to AI Adoption is Encoding Judgment
Most AI adoption stalls on a false choice: keep AI on a leash, checking every step, or let it run and hope. There's a third path — encoding your own judgment into the system so AI can run inside guardrails you built. Using a real example (surfacing partnership leads from LinkedIn), this post breaks down what it actually takes to turn instinct into a system.
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.
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