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Jul 8, 2026 · 6 min read

I asked AI for the weather and it made something up.

Prompt grounding is the craft move that turns a made-up AI answer into an accurate one. Point the model at a named source, not stale training data.

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Jun 30, 2026 · 5 min read

I was an AI skeptic until I treated my brain as an algorithm

For two years I called AI fake intelligence. Then I learned AI is only as good as the input, and the human brain is also an algorithm on experience.

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Jun 12, 2026 · 6 min read

I asked AI to fix 120 pages. The false positives were on me.

Context engineering vs prompt engineering, told through a 120-page proofread that came back in five minutes with false positives I had to throw out.

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Jun 8, 2026 · 6 min read

I picked the wrong Claude model and shipped nothing.

I picked Haiku for a customer R risk-analysis program and got a half-baked draft. Here is how I learned to choose the right Claude model tier.

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Jun 1, 2026 · 6 min read

AI almost lost me a Customer

I almost sent an AI document with a fabricated drug name. A colleague caught it. Why expert review is the only real defense against AI hallucination.

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May 22, 2026 · 8 min read

My first ChatGPT answer was bland. Mine was the problem.

I tried ChatGPT in early 2024, got a bland answer, and walked off. Here is what I missed - and how to prompt ChatGPT for better answers without code.

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