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- SoN 2.29: Agents reading your passwords? Would you let them?
My AI's been getting into my password manager for months. The setup that makes that safe — and what this week's headlines get wrong.
- Tell AI What You Want and Who You Are
Two takes on the same idea — the ASD-STE100 controlled-English standard and the i-have-adhd Claude Code skill — on giving your AI a writing system and telling it what you want.
- What I Automate with AI
What I Automate with AI I went looking today for a list of everything I’ve got automated since I started this AI journey back in 2024. Every tool…
- The most powerful Claude yet — and the part you can't have
Claude Fable 5 Anthropic dropped a new model yesterday, and I’ve spent the time since doing what I always do with a new one — reading past the…
- SoN 2.15: Ask your AI to Ask You Questions (Free Edition)
Ask Your AI To Ask You Questions (Free) Ask your AI to ask you questions Last Saturday morning I sat down to write the weekly digest for my…
- Claude Code Channels: When Your Agent Gets a Phone Number
Anthropic's new messaging integration isn't about convenience — it's about changing how you think about what an AI agent is.
- Codex Plugins Are a Confession About Who's Winning
OpenAI launched 20 plugins to push Codex beyond coding. The move tells you everything about where the developer ecosystem actually lives.
- Your AI Just Learned to Approve Its Own Actions
Claude Code's new auto mode sits between handholding and chaos. It's the first honest attempt at solving the autonomy problem in developer tools.
- 4.4 Million People Just Watched the Sycophancy Problem in Action
Senator Bernie Sanders interviewed Claude on camera about AI privacy. Claude agreed with everything he said. That's not a revelation — it's the problem.
- Perplexity Is Learning What I Learned Six Months Ago
The Perplexity CTO says MCP eats 40-50% of your context window. Practitioners already knew this.
- When Knuth Writes a Paper About You
Donald Knuth published a paper named after Claude after it solved an open graph theory problem. That's a different kind of validation than a benchmark score.
- The Attack Surface Is the Feature
Three chained vulnerabilities in Claude.ai show that when your AI reads the web, the web can give it orders.
- The Wrench Is Now on Your Phone
Claude Code Channels ships Telegram and Discord integration with MCP access — and what it means when AI meets you where you are.
- The Vuln That Hits Before You Add Any Integrations
Three chained flaws in vanilla Claude.ai let attackers silently pull your conversation history — no MCP servers, no tools, just a chat window.
- The 'Selfware' Panic Is Missing the Point
Claude Code is spooking SaaS investors. But the actual disruption isn't where they're looking.
- SoN Vol 2, Issue 2: The Art of Breaking Things Down
Dear Reader, Last week I introduced the idea of "programming your gaps" — the mental shift from asking "how do I prompt better?" to "what friction in…
- SoN 30: Four Questions That Fix Your Prompts
November 26th, 2025 Dear Reader, Most prompts fail before you hit enter. Not because of the AI model nor because of token limits or temperature…
- SoN 22: How to Write AI Instructions That Actually Work
October 1st, 2025 Dear Reader, (Psst, this is a long one - so if you can't get through the whole read at once, that's cool - but make sure you scroll…
- Why Your AI Prompts Aren’t Working (And How to Fix Them)
Prompts are not magical incantations, they're conversations.
- Navigating the AI Assistant Landscape: Finding What Works for You
May 16th, 2025 Dear Reader, This week, I’ve been juggling two big challenges: fine-tuning Claude's MCP server tools for a client project and gearing…
- Why Claude Is My New Digital Co-Pilot
MCP Server allows Claude to directly interact with the data on my computer, transforming it from a helpful assistant to a true digital co-pilot.
- 💾 The Download #009: A Jim-GPT to make your prompt creation easier, testing OpenAI's text-to-video model and more.
In this issue of The Download: A Jim-GPT to make your prompt creation easier, testing OpenAI's text-to-video model and more.