Let’s examine this pile of AI slop, generated by ChatGPT: If you’re a writer, you’ve probably noticed something changing fast: AI isn’t replacing the need for great writing. It’s changing how great writers work. The opportunity isn’t to hand your writing over to AI and hope for the best. It’s to learn how to use…
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Summary In today's episode, I walk through how to set up your own Claude marketplace using GitHub as a central version control system for AI skills and plugins. Here's what this means for you. You gain a reliable way to automatically push updates to every team member's Claude instance instead of relying on manual downloads…
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Summary In today's episode, I break down why complex multi-agent orchestrations are wildly expensive and share practical model selection strategies to slash those costs. Here's what this means for you. You'll discover that matching lighter, cheaper AI models to simpler tasks like documentation saves a fortune without sacrificing quality. You'll also learn these concepts: why…
Summary In today's episode, I walk through practical techniques for extending Microsoft Copilot's capabilities beyond its out-of-the-box limitations using skills, agents, and its built-in Python environment. Here's what this means for you. You can transform a tool often dismissed as inferior into a capable enterprise AI system that handles deterministic tasks like word counting, regression…
