Summary In today's episode, I walk through how to set up Claude Code for success, including why you'd choose it over Claude Co-work, the prep work required, and the documentation structures that drive consistent quality output. Here's what this means for you. You gain a repeatable framework that slashes token usage, cuts rework, and forces…
“You can’t manage what you can’t measure.” This management trope, widely derided (sometimes correctly), is a cornerstone of effective AI management. Here’s what I mean. Suppose you were working on a piece of writing, a piece of content, and you wanted to tell AI to aim for better readability. Maybe you wanted it to be…
Summary In today's episode, I explain how to maintain high code quality and prevent technical debt when using AI for programming. Here's what this means for you. You can harness the speed of AI without sacrificing the integrity or structure of your codebase. You'll also learn these concepts: how design specs and PRDs guide AI…
AI should make you smarter. I’m in the middle of updating a deck for my colleagues at SMX (I’m doing a full day AI SEO/PPC workshop next month), and in parallel last night I was trying to have AI generate a Common Core-aligned 6th grade math textbook from scratch, based on Common Core (a USA…
Summary In today's episode, I demonstrate how to connect third-party inference providers to the Claude Desktop application. Here's what this means for you. You can reduce your costs by using alternative API providers while still enjoying the Claude ecosystem's features. You'll also learn these concepts: enabling developer mode in Claude Desktop, configuring gateway URLs and…
There are five levels of AI enablement now. Done by you: you’re doing all the work. You chat with Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, and you’re copy pasting everything. The entry level. Done with you: you’re doing some of the work. Gems, GPTs, projects where some of the work is pre-baked, but a good amount isn’t. Done…
Agentic AI switches system 2 to system 1. For those who haven’t followed the late economist Daniel Kahnemann, his book, Thinking Fast and Slow, detailed two categories of thinking, which he called system 1 and system 2. System 1 thinking is rapid, intuitive, and sometimes unconscious. System 2 thinking is slow, deliberative, and reflective. When…
/model opusplan is what you’re looking for in Claude Code. If you’re in Claude Code and you type the /model command, you’re given these options typically: Default (recommended) Opus 4.6 · Most capable for complex work Opus (1M context) Opus 4.6 with 1M context · Billed as extra usage · $10/$37.50 per Mtok Sonnet ✔…
Software is not a moat. If you’ve ever tried any of the agentic AI tools out there, you know how trivial it is to give Claude Code a prompt like “Make me a better version of XYZ app/SaaS service/whatever that also does {ABC}”, and the tools will do it. This is especially true of systems…
