Category: Technology

  • You Ask, I Answer: How to Use AI for Time Management?

    Summary In today's episode, I explore how to leverage AI for better time management by connecting large language models to your existing productivity tools. Here's what this means for you. You gain the ability to reduce cognitive overhead and automate tedious administrative tasks through natural language interaction. You'll also learn these concepts: how to use…

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  • How to Save Big Money on Claude Code by Switching Models (Without Killing Your Workflow)

    Nerd alert! (nerd alert posts are filled with technobabble) If you’re using Claude Code Router – the wrapper that allows you to change what models you use with Claude Code with non-Anthropic models – there’s a bug in the header that prevents prompt caching. (which makes it less efficient and can drive up costs) You…

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  • Who Owns Your AI Prompts? The Work-for-Hire Clause You Need to Understand

    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…

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  • Master Your AI Workflow: The /export Command You Need to Know

    /export That’s the magic command that makes your prompts in AI CLI coding tools reproducible. At the end of a significant chunk of work in a tool like Claude Code, Gemini CLI, OpenAI Codex, Qwen Code, etc., type /export and it will dump the chat history to a text file. If you came up with…

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  • 3 Clever AI Workarounds That Will Save You Hours of Frustration

    “Figure out 3 workarounds.” One of AI’s superpowers can be summed up in this sentence, especially when you’re doing work like coding, stats, analysis, or other similar kinds of work. Very often, our human brains get stuck. We run into an obstacle, and we bang our heads against the obstacle. “What do you mean, WP…

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  • Build a Portable Agent Library: How to Stop Reinventing the Wheel with AI Tools

    Stop reinventing the agentic wheel. One of the cardinal principles of good development is to not reinvent the wheel -that is, to not recreate something that already exists. If you’re using agentic AI tools like Claude Code, Gemini CLI, OpenAI Codex, Qwen Code, etc., when you start a new project, there’s a very good chance…

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  • How AI Agents Can Cut Your Work Time by 99%: The Parallel Processing Revolution

    Here’s why agentic AI matters, in a word: parallelism. All of the tasks agentic AI does, regular AI also does (because logically, agentic AI is built on top of regular AI). And the tasks that you’d do with agents, you can absolutely do in serial, one at a time, one after another. It’ll work. It’ll…

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  • Why Deep Research Is Your Secret Weapon for Flawless Vibe-X Projects

    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,…

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  • How AI Coworkers Can Automate Your Most Tedious Software Tasks

    In case you missed it today, if you’re not great at a specific piece of software, agentic AI that has browser capabilities can give you a huge hand. At the 18:37 mark in this Trust Insights livestream, I let Claude take the wheel in setting up a Google Analytics 4 Exploration. I gave it the…

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  • Agents vs. Skills in AI: Understanding the Key Difference for Smarter Automation

    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…

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