Building your AI tribe: who to add, what to give them, how to start

Practical. No hype. The most enjoyable thing I’ve built with AI this year has nothing to do with surgery. It’s a debate council — six historical figures convened around a table to argue any question I throw at them. Socrates asks questions that destabilise everyone else’s answers. Marcus Aurelius finds equanimity in the cosmic indifference … Read more

Chat, Cowork, Code, Skills, Plugins, and Prompts: what is what and when to use each

Practical. No hype. The most common mistake I see surgeons make with AI is using Chat for everything. Chat is fine. It’s where most people start and it’s a genuinely useful tool. But it’s one mode of one product, and using it for tasks that other modes handle better is like doing everything with a … Read more

How to get AI to remember things

Practical. No hype. You spend twenty minutes giving Claude the context it needs — your role, your department, what you’re working on, how you prefer to communicate. It gives you exactly what you need. You close the tab. Next time you open it, the slate is blank. Claude knows nothing about you. You start again. … Read more