Topic

AI

Experiments, failures, and getting better at it

7 posts

Diagram running from credits to a GitHub connection to repositories and history
AI

Why connecting GitHub comes with free credits

Claude offers prepaid cloud credits for connecting a GitHub account. Rather than take that at face value, I followed GitHub's own documentation on what the connect button actually grants, and what the credits are buying.

· 4 min
Bar diagram mapping 0–12 yes answers to stages 1 through 5
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Which stage of AI fluency am I at? A 12-question check

Saying you use AI means different things to different people. Twelve yes-or-no questions place you on the five stages, with exactly one thing to do next at each stage. My own score is in here too.

· 3 min
Diagram listing the five things to automate first, in order
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What a Solo Business Should Automate First

A month of actually removing work, in the order it happened. There is a way to decide what to touch first, and starting wrong wastes the momentum.

· 3 min
A hand correcting a printout with a red pencil beside reading glasses
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When the AI is wrong, catch it by asking

AI is confidently wrong. Four questions that expose a wrong answer inside the conversation, without any tools, plus three real cases my company caught while putting AI to work.

· 3 min
Staircase diagram of five AI fluency stages and what each leaves you
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The Five Stages of Working With AI

From asking a chatbot the odd question to running six agent sessions at once. The four stages I went through, and the fifth one I am entering.

· 5 min
A person seen from behind working at a laptop under a desk lamp at night
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The First Thing My AI Transformation Changed Was Me

The scene in The Matrix where flying a helicopter downloads into Neo's head. That is happening to me. AI moved my ceiling first, and automation followed.

· 3 min
A desk with an open laptop and a doorway opening onto a path outside
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Why I Started My AI Transformation

The first post on this blog. Why I decided to move my work onto AI, and why I chose to keep the whole record out in the open rather than privately.

· 1 min