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Working notes on putting AI to work. Every post comes from something I built or tested.

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  Claude Skills Best Practices: 7 Rules for Skills That Work

  Make skills easy to find and cheap to read. These Claude skills best practices cover names, descriptions, file size and testing, with the numbers.

  7 min read

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  Best Claude Code Plugins: 5 That Stop Claude Guessing

  The best Claude Code plugins to add first: Context7, GitHub, Superpowers, Frontend design and Chrome DevTools. Each one hands Claude what it cannot see.

  6 min read

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  Claude Opus 5.5: What Changed and the 1 Command to Run

  Claude Opus 5.5 beats Fable 5.1 on office work and costs about 40% less per task than Opus 5. Here is what changes for you, and the 1 command to run first.

  6 min read

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  Claude Video Generation: Turn 1 Link Into a Brand Video

  Claude video generation from 1 link: give Claude your Instagram or website and 1 prompt, and it builds a brand video from your real content. Prompt inside.

  6 min read

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  Let AI Edit Your Video in 1 Prompt: GPT-6 Astra vs Fable 5.1

  1 raw recording and 1 prompt get you a finished video with captions and motion graphics. See what GPT-6 Astra and Fable 5.1 made, and get the prompt.

  9 min read

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  Claude Code Effort or Model: Which One to Change First

  Claude Code effort sets how hard the model tries, not how smart it is. Unfinished work means raise effort. Wrong work means change the model.

  7 min read