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Learn
Guides, prompt patterns, and how-tos written for humans who want to get good at this, not programmers who already are.
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Talk to Your AI (Don't Just Type)
Tap the mic and talk to your AI instead of typing. You give it more to work with, and your words reach the strongest model. Here's how on each app.
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Stuck? Ask It, or Show It
Two beginner habits for when you're stuck with AI: ask it in plain words, or screenshot the thing and ask what to do next. Both shown being done.
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Karpathy's LLM Wiki, and whether it's worth wiring up
What Karpathy's LLM Wiki actually is, three setups for wiring it into Claude Code or Codex, and the failure modes that quietly kill these wikis.
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Your First Hour With AI
Sixty minutes, six prompts, and one habit that turns 'this is useless' into 'oh, I see.' Your first hour with ChatGPT, in the order that matters.
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What Your AI Is Doing Before It Answers You
That pause before an AI answers is the answer being built one word at a time, not a slow server fetching a finished thing. One fact, and three things you've noticed stop being mysterious.
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AI Is Bad at Being Random, and Two Ways to Fix It
Ask an AI to pick a random number or suggest a name and it hands you the same few answers. Here is why that happens, plus two prompts that fix it.
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AI Sycophancy: Why It Agrees With You When You're Wrong
AI sometimes folds the moment you push back, even when you're wrong. The behavior has a measured cause, and two prompt moves change the picture.
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How much water does AI actually use?
Where the water in "AI uses water" headlines goes, the per-query number worth knowing, and why public figures disagree by orders of magnitude.
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Why Does AI Hallucinate? (And Why It Sounds So Sure)
The mechanism behind confidently-wrong AI answers, the specific shapes hallucinations take in 2026, and the moves that actually reduce them.
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The 2026 AI Writing Tells (Em-Dash Meme Is Half-Right)
AI writing feels off, but the 2026 tells aren't the lexical ones the internet mocks. They're shape-level, and easier to spot once you know how.
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What the Edit Button Does in ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini
The pencil icon next to a past message does two different things. Claude and ChatGPT save both versions; Gemini replaces your prior turn with no way back.