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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.
Your Graph Should Not Be Inert
In 1986, an information scientist found a hidden medical connection nobody had made — not by running an experiment, but by linking two piles of research that never cited each other. I set out to build that same instinct into our knowledge graph. Then I got told I was 60 years late. Then 12. Here's what that taught me about why your second brain shouldn't just sit there.
AI Made Your Expertise Cheap. Now What?
Every service business is staring at AI knowing everything is changing and nothing is staying the same. That forces a bet: go premium, go volume, or shift to equipping. But all three bets share one dependency, and the same AI that made your expertise cheap is exactly how you feed it.
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.
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.
The Hardest Thing in AI Right Now Isn't AI
AI feedback loops can't improve without rubrics and quality criteria extracted from human expertise. The real bottleneck isn't technical.
Prompt Engineering Isn't Dead. Your Requirements Just Got Promoted.
Everyone's declaring prompt engineering dead. They're wrong. The part that died was managing the LLM. The part that matters, articulating your unique requirements, just got promoted.
AI Doesn't Replace Expertise. It Makes Expertise Portable.
I built a video post-production pipeline using Claude Code skills. Eight markdown files that automate silence removal, dynamic zoom, color correction, audio mastering, and captions.
Adaptive.ai Does What OpenClaw Promises — Without the Setup Headaches
I needed GSC and GA4 data inside an AI tool. Adaptive.ai's agent figured out the authentication, the integration, and the workarounds. No API keys. No configuration. Here's why that matters more than most people think.
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