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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.
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.
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.
Why Your AI Bill Is Too High (And the Architecture Fix That Saves 40%)
Most companies run their AI like a doctor's office. The ones that scale run it like an ER. Here's the architecture decision that cuts AI costs by 40%.
AI Can Design a WordPress Site. It Still Doesn't Know Where the Design Should Live.
WordPress 7's AI features are real and they're going to help. But the hardest problem in WordPress isn't content. It's design. And it's an architecture problem, not a feature gap. Here's the two companies actually solving it for two very different users.
The Two Bets Every AI Team Has to Make
Most AI teams celebrate the technical bet (prototype on the edge of working) without making the cultural bet that makes it survivable. You need both.
Claude Skills + Apify: Why It Feels Less Like a Chatbot and More Like Hiring an Intern
A Claude Skill paired with Apify doesn't feel like AI — it feels like hiring a research-capable intern who hands you a finished dossier the night before a meeting.
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.
How to Use Process Mining to Find What AI Should Automate
Your ticket system already records every escalation, every reopen, every bottleneck — with timestamps. Process mining turns that data into a map of exactly where AI automation will have the most impact. No interviews. No opinions. Just the data.
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