Are you turning over your prompts? If you do work for others under contract – as an employee, as a contractor, as a business – there’s a good chance somewhere there’s a term: “work for hire”. DISCLAIMER: I AM NOT A LAWYER. I CANNOT GIVE LEGAL ADVICE. CONSULT A QUALIFIED LAWYER IN YOUR JURISDICTION FOR…
Summary In today's episode, I explain how to draft a first-time AI policy for your company while mitigating legal and ethical risks. Here's what this means for you. You can build a governance framework that protects your business and satisfies existing contractual obligations. You'll also learn these concepts: how governance begins with risk assessment, how…
The start of any vibe-X project should always be Deep Research. Here’s a simple example: yesterday, someone asked me how they should go about writing a Chrome extension using vibe coding tools. GREAT application of vibe coding – Chrome extensions are small, typically lightweight, and not behemoths of enterprise software. BUT! They’re also super finicky,…
Here’s a quick refresher on agents vs. skills in AI tools like Claude, Claude Code, Google Antigravity, Qwen Code, etc. An agent is an autonomous version of the AI typically pre-prompted to do a specific kind of task: debugging, acting as the voice of the customer, being a co-CEO. If you’re familiar with GPTs from…
Is there “men’s writing?” Is there “women’s writing?” I’d like to think we could agree that such gross generalizations are pointless. (not to mention discriminatory, but that’s a topic for a different time) But there is no such thing as men’s writing. There absolutely IS a Christopher Penn writing style or a Katie Robbert writing…
Do you have first principles in AI? One of the most useful things you can do in AI systems, but especially agentic AI, is have a clear list of 3-5 first principles. These are the overarching guidelines that tell the machine what it always should be doing no matter what. Part of the reason AI…
