# The End(s) of Argument

Looking for the structure underneath the noise

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## [My De-Claudifying Memory File to Ditch Claude's "Word Mosaics"](https://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/my-de-claudifying-memory-file-to)

_2026-07-31 · Mike Caulfield_

How I at least partially mitigate Claude Fable's ridiculous yoda-speak

## [Blog Posts as LLM Repair Code](https://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/blog-posts-as-llm-repair-code)

_2026-07-22 · Mike Caulfield_

To Fix the Crappy Prompts Claude Wrote for You, Have Claude Read My Blog Post

## [I Finally Understand Why LLMs Suck at Writing Prompts (And It Might Be Fixable)](https://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/i-finally-understand-why-llms-suck)

_2026-07-11 · Mike Caulfield_

I've wondered a long time why LLMs are so bad at writing prompts for users to use when they seem to be so good at prompting on the fly. It turns out the two things are related.

## [Four Tips for Better Prompting](https://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/four-tips-for-better-prompting)

_2026-06-30 · Mike Caulfield_

A generalizable and durable approach to investigating an issue with an LLM.

## [Tagging Motel Noir](https://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/tagging-motel-noir)

_2026-06-20 · Mike Caulfield_

An example of how LLM projects find depth, and how people find curiosity

## [We could be building a better world with our students. Why are we disempowering them instead?](https://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/we-could-be-building-a-better-world)

_2026-06-17 · Mike Caulfield_

And why did our constructionism impulse die when it was most needed?

## [A simple starter film data prompt: Calculating on-screen film deaths in 1998](https://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/a-simple-starter-film-data-prompt)

_2026-06-05 · Mike Caulfield_

A simple prompt to understand some basic LLMs + data + interface concepts

## [Tilling the Garden: A different way to use AI to make interesting and useful apps](https://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/tilling-the-garden-a-different-way)

_2026-06-04 · Mike Caulfield_

Rebuilding the internet of weird little things one data enrichment at a time

## [Introducing Plotwise, the slightly weird film explorer](https://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/introducing-plotwise-the-slightly)

_2026-05-29 · Mike Caulfield_

Running a recommendation engine off of HTML and 5 MB of JSON

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## [An interesting attribute tagging approach with LLMs](https://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/an-interesting-attribute-tagging)

_2026-05-28 · Mike Caulfield_

And why the literature on cognitive surrender can feel a million miles away to people who use this stuff