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Claude & AnthropicTutorial

Build a Handoff File Claude Can Debug From

Build a handoff file that lets Claude Code recover its own broken setup. In a real session it diagnosed two separate faults from its own notes in minutes.

7 min read
AI ToolsBeginners

5 Ways Beginners Leak Credentials With AI Tools

Five ways non-developers leak API keys and tokens when they start using AI tools, taken from real sessions, plus the exact checks that prevent each one.

10 min read
LLM EngineeringAI Tools

The Pronoun That Made Our Chatbot Lie

A one-word follow-up made our chatbot invent a year that did not exist. The same mechanism later cost a student four figures in a day. Here is why.

6 min read
AI ToolsClaude & Anthropic

When Your Company Blocks Claude Cowork

Your company blocked Claude Cowork or gave you API-only access. What still works, what quietly disappears, and how to pick a path IT will approve.

9 min read
AI ToolsBeginners

6 Setup Problems That Stall Every AI Beginner

Six setup problems that stall AI beginners, from 14 logged one-to-one lessons with four working professionals. What really ate the time, and the fixes.

11 min read
AI ToolsBeginners

Do You Need a Powerful Computer for AI?

Do you need a powerful computer for AI? To use the tools, no. To train a model, yes. Here is the honest line between them, and the real cutoff.

7 min read
AI ToolsClaude & Anthropic

6 Mistakes Professionals Make with AI Tools

The six mistakes I watch professionals make with AI tools, from trusting confident-but-wrong output to betting a whole week on one model, and the fixes.

5 min read
AI ToolsUpskilling

Teach Me to Think in the AI Way

A student stopped me mid-lesson: do not build it for me, teach me to think in the AI way. It reframed how I teach, and what is actually worth learning.

3 min read
AI ToolsTutoring

Do You Still Need a Coding Tutor in the Age of AI?

Do you still need a coding tutor when AI answers anything? A straight answer by situation: when a tutor beats AI and self-study, and when it does not.

5 min read
AI ToolsClaude & Anthropic

How to Set Up Claude Code on Windows and WSL

Set up Claude Code on Windows using WSL, step by step, including the install error that stops most beginners. Get to your first real session in 45 minutes.

4 min read
AI ToolsClaude & Anthropic

Can a Non-Coder Use Claude Code?

Can a non-coder use Claude Code? Yes, but it is the harder door into AI. Here is when it is worth the climb, and when Cowork is the smarter starting point.

4 min read
AI ToolsClaude & Anthropic

5 Marketing Tasks You Can Automate with Claude

Five real marketing tasks you can hand to Claude this week, from the weekly ads audit to win-loss analysis, with the exact prompts my client teams use.

5 min read
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