Field guides & working notes
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updated 2026-10-11
Practical guides to coding agents, creative tools, and the habits that make them useful. Pick a topic and put it to work.
Agent-driven development: build, test, and ship with coding agents
Direct coding agents with useful briefs, context, skills, and acceptance checks. Build in small loops, control costs, review evidence, and release safely.
Read articleStart a podcast. Build its production factory.
Record a short podcast, use agents to prepare edits and clips, approve the release, and track publishing. Three practical workflows and a small pilot.
Read articleAI CRM automation: research leads, draft outreach, keep control
Give agents useful sales work: research candidates, prepare outreach, and record next actions in Attio. Build a reviewed pipeline with clear ownership.
Read articleAI-first process improvement: redesign one business workflow
Map one business process, build a useful second brain, assign agents, and test the result. A practical guide to less admin and better service.
Read articleSpeech to website: update your site from your phone
Connect phone dictation to a coding agent, review a website preview, and publish approved changes. Practical setup, costs, checks, and recovery.
Read articleCustom GPT for your website: options, costs, and setup
Build an AI assistant that answers from your documents. Compare no-code tools, custom APIs, local models, costs, and a practical setup and testing plan.
Read articleJev AI judgment models: costs, uses, and the path to AGI
What TypeSafe’s Jev judgment model does, what it costs, and how to use it in AI workflows. API options, benchmark limits, and why cheap judgment could matter for AGI.
Read article23 Grok Bot tips for reliable work with less wasted usage
Practical Grok Bot tips for skills, routines, connectors, handoffs, permissions, and cost control. Includes a reusable task brief and failure checks.
Read articleAI creative agency: one brief, a consistent campaign
What an AI creative agency can deliver: a clear brand brief, consistent images and video, ad concepts, landing-page copy, and a practical review process.
Read articleCreate a consistent AI character with Pixio
Create consistent AI characters in Pixio with reference-sheet prompts, three original adult profiles, Nerd Dad, and our Saturday cartoon examples.
Read articleClaude Code field guide: setup, skills, hooks, and better results
A practical Claude Code guide to setup, CLAUDE.md, skills, hooks, context, permissions, and review. Includes prompts, examples, and official sources.
Read articleHermes Agent setup: a practical field guide
Set up Hermes Agent, connect Telegram, choose a model, and use memory, skills, profiles, hooks, and scheduled tasks without common setup mistakes.
Read articleAI agent skills: create, test, and share a SKILL.md workflow
Build reusable AI agent skills with SKILL.md. Compare Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Hermes paths, then test triggers and share reliable team workflows.
Read articleHow to automate recurring work with Claude: a practical guide
Choose one recurring task, write its rules, and automate it with Claude. Compare skills, local schedules, cloud routines, scripts, and app automation.
Read articleFree AI models for Hermes Agent: options and limits
Compare free model endpoints for Hermes Agent, check current prices and privacy terms, and connect OpenRouter or Ollama without hidden assumptions.
Read articleGraph engineering: build better AI workflows with the fake-edge test
Design AI workflows with clear jobs, real dependencies, and review gates. Use the fake-edge test to find safe parallel work before you automate.
Read articleHow to choose an AI model: a 15-minute comparison
Compare AI models on one real task. Check correctness, time, cost, and steering, then test the winner on more work before you switch.
Read articleUse AI to catch filler words: a practical coaching prompt
Use a clear checklist and reusable prompt to find filler words in speech. Check context, avoid transcript false positives, and track useful examples.
Read articleTurn notes into useful posts: the Life = Content loop
Turn daily work into useful posts, checklists, and agent skills. A simple capture, distill, and publish routine with an example and a reusable template.
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