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Most parents type 'help my kid with this' and the AI gives away the answer. One small change completely transforms it.
It's a Tuesday night. The math worksheet is on the kitchen table between you and a nine-year-old whose patience ran out approximately at question three. You've tried explaining it twice. The pencil is being held the way people hold forks when they're mad at the fork. In a moment…
The single fastest way to find your product's accessibility holes is to spend one Saturday using it without a mouse. AI helps you take notes and fix the obvious things.
Five real-world prompt injection patterns — how they work, why they work, and the defense scaffolds that actually stop them. For engineers building anything that trusts a user.
The time paradox that shows every AI confidently gives wrong dates, why the "knowledge cutoff" explanation is only half the story, and the one-line fix that gets it right.
The famous counting failure that reveals everything about how LLMs actually see text. Not a bug — a consequence of tokenization. With reproducible prompts and the surprisingly clever workarounds.
Why AI models hallucinate, where they break, and how to make them do strange things on purpose. The first post in a new series on the weird, broken, and fascinating edges of modern AI.
One copy-pasteable prompt that turns a job ad plus four short answers into a cover letter that reads like you wrote it. Tested on real postings.
A friend forwarded a cover letter last month and asked if it was any good. It opened: "I am writing to express my strong interest in the Operations Manager position at your esteemed company, as advertised on LinkedIn." The rest was three paragraphs of the same thing. Detail-orien…
A specific four-part message structure that quietly reopens a line of communication — with an ex, an old friend, a family member, a former colleague — without making it weird.
There is a message in your drafts folder right now that has been there for longer than you want to admit. It's to somebody you used to talk to every week and now don't — an ex you parted with on okay terms, an old friend who moved, a cousin who stopped answering after a family th…
Every product is full of 'Sorry, an unexpected error occurred.' A 12-word prompt template can rewrite them all into something that actually helps.
A product manager I know sent me a screenshot last month. It was the error state in his company's billing dashboard. The exact text, every character: **"Sorry, an unexpected error occurred. Please try again later."**
The prompt that takes a raw diff and turns it into the changelog entry you were going to write tomorrow and now don't have to.
It's 4:47 on a Friday. Somebody on your team just merged a release candidate, the deploy window is in thirteen minutes, and the changelog reads like this: