Two worlds,
one curiosity.
By day I build better public services; by night I lose myself in a glass of wine. In between, I put AI to work hands-on, so I stay ahead and can bring others along. What I find beneath the surface, I share here.
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Innovation, AI & wine
How I use AI: Agent Skills in practice
A skill is an instruction, and instructions get forgotten. What happened when I found the same rule written in four places with nobody comparing them.
Claude Code now audits your instructions for old prompting habits
Claude Code 2.1.283 ships an audit that checks CLAUDE.md, skills and commands for prompting written for older models. I held its rules up against my own pile of instructions.
One photo of the shelf, one bottle out of it
Standing in front of fifty labels with no idea. One photo and four lines of instruction turn it into a choice, as long as you forbid guessing.
Cowork and chat become one Claude, and my comparison table loses a column
Anthropic has dissolved Cowork as a separate place and put Docs and Slides in every conversation. The choice does not disappear. It moves into the model, and a few doors quietly close.
Which AI assistant? To pay or not, and for which one
After five parts the answer is short: start free, pay only once you've hit the same wall three times, and then pay for one. Part 6 of 6, with the decision tree and my own choice.
Claude Opus 5.5: Fable-level work for less than half the token price
Anthropic shipped Opus 5.5 yesterday, ten days after calling on the industry to slow down. It nearly matches Fable 5.1, cache reads drop 60 percent, and thinking can no longer be turned off.
How I use AI: my cellar is now an MCP server
A hundred lines of code and Claude can query my stock without the file ever leaving my laptop. The tool description turned out to be the actual prompt.
Which AI assistant? Which one am I allowed to use for work
The terms at three of the five say your free or personal account is for private use. What that means, what a work email address does, and the business version, once. Part 5 of 6.
Sixty minutes to get someone building for themselves
Explaining what AI can do does not work. Making something yourself does. Here is the format I designed for that, including the card, the timings and what to do when the network blocks you.
Sparks
Short notes, tips & loose thoughtsTested a new local image generator. Runs fully offline. The hero above came out of it.
Tasted blind: a grower champagne beat two big houses. Notes to follow.
EUDI Wallet pilot live in NL. First take: UX decides whether the trust lands.
Tip: keep your best prompts as snippets, not in your head. Saves time daily.
Golden hour lasted eleven minutes yesterday. Exactly enough for three bottles.
Note to self: a method is a tool, not an excuse to stop thinking.