Grab my six-line handoff and cost scorecard, then find out whether a cheaper model actually saved you money.
Keep the coding harness you already built while GLM-5.3 moves expensive API work to a much cheaper model in minutes.
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Personal software is here, and you can build yours this week. Grab the setup guide: two routes, four files, every account.
Build it! The complete guide for non-developers: pick the right shape, make the few decisions that matter, and turn one stubborn wish into working personal software.
Executive Briefing: $500 Billion Announced, Zero Committed. What You Can Actually Budget Against.
Wall Street is trying to turn GPUs and their future revenue into an asset class. It is how foundational technologies get built, and how capital gets misallocated when the assumptions are wrong.
You're one app install away from a team that takes on your biggest jobs.
I’m having more fun with Grok Bot than anything I’ve touched this year. It’s the first AI product I’d hand to someone who has never used one, and here are the two Bots I’d start with.
OpenAI's agent manual rotted into a graveyard of stale rules. Grab my Working Context Starter Kit, the four-file guide that keeps yours current.
AI can make you 10x more ambitious. The catch is that your agents keep working from the version of the plan you already abandoned.
Executive Briefing: Your Team Will Believe the Layoff Headline Over Your Roadmap. Here's the Fix.
Your team isn’t asking whether AI tools work. They’re asking what happens to them if it does.
11,755 agent runs, and the ones that lied looked the most finished. Here are the three checks you can run today (+ my Mission Fit Skill)
An agent attached the wrong file to my email and reported success. I almost hit send. Here are the three checks I run now, and the question I answer before all of them.
Nobody Checked Deloitte's Report. One Academic Did. It Cost Them A$97,587.
The people who take the time to read with care are paying for the people who don’t. Here’s the skill I built to keep your own work out of that pile — and why no skill can do the part that matters.
Your AI bet can be right and still run out of money. Grab the two-clock prompt: what has to be true, how long it really takes, who controls your runway, what pays today.
Aschenbrenner read AI right and still had to sell. Apple has looked slow for two years and it doesn't matter. The forecast was never the problem.
Executive Briefing: Which of the 5 Levels of AI Builder Are You, and What It Costs You
A five-level map for figuring out whether you have an idea, a business, or an advantage that can survive the next model launch.
Somebody else decided what good looks like, and it shipped with the skill you installed. Here's the guide to fix it.
A practical test for deciding when to keep a shared skill, rebuild it around your judgment, or remove it.