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Once I started using AI to help me write, I noticed a few patterns.

Pattern 1: The deep opening

It opens with something that sounds profound: "In this era of rapid change, X is redefining how we ..."

Or: "Most people think X. The real problem is Y."

Pattern 2: Announcing the thes…

Lately I read Andrew Ng's new post on X, AI Engineering Skills Map: Shaping the build, and it made me, an engineer of more than ten years, anxious about my career.

The core is one sentence: a strong software engineer in the AI era has to move past implementing requirements someon…

For more than twenty years the internet ran on a stable supply-and-demand relationship where everyone, or nearly everyone, won.

Sites like blogs gave search engines free content to crawl, and the search engines sent traffic back to those sites. Advertisers could then use that pul…

I found an interesting thread where the author shares seven prompts for using AI to find ways to create wealth. I have not tried them properly yet, so I will update this once I have results.

https://x.com/raul_ia_prod/status/2091446726217363675?s=46

1. Find my hidden skills. Given m…

I found vibeprompts.dev, a site with templates that generate Tailwind CSS components from natural language. Handy to use: it amounts to describing a web page or a component in plain words. My guess is they feed existing components to an agent and let it write the prompts.

A simpl…

I read a post on Zhihu: From Superpowers to Matt Pocock: Five Things a 200k-Star Skill Library Taught Me. Matt's approach fits how I work with agents today better than Superpowers does.

The post says:

Superpowers bets that a methodology can take over and save you the judgment. It…