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The exact prompt I used to make my AI portrait

The full prompt, word for word. It keeps your real face instead of turning you into a stock model, and it will interview you if you don't know what you want yet.

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How I prompt AI like a nurse: the SBAR framework

The handoff format nurses have used for decades, turned into a way to ask AI for things. Includes the template I use and the one line that fixes most bad answers.

03

Which AI should you actually use?

Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini. What each one is genuinely good at, a rule of thumb for picking, and why the choice matters less than you'd think.

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How to check AI's work

It sounds just as sure of itself when it's wrong. Five checks I run before I use anything, why asking for sources is only half the job, and a prompt that makes it audit itself.

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Five things to tell AI once

Stop opening every conversation like you're talking to a stranger. The five things worth setting up one time, including the one almost nobody includes, plus a copy-paste template.

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How to make AI write like you

Build a voice file out of your own old emails and captions. The interview step that does most of the work, the never list, and the one rule I set that matters more than the rest.

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Find your first skill

You do not need an AI agent, you need to stop re-explaining yourself. A three-part test for spotting the repeated task worth teaching once, and how to actually teach it.

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AI's water problem, and what NVIDIA actually announced

The article itself, the short version if you don't want to read the whole thing, and the parts it doesn't solve.

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