Some thoughts on AI as I work with it all day, every day, as an educator who isn't technial.
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You have to both (a) play with these tools and (b) use them to make your current work either go faster or be done at a higher quality. Speed and quality for work, fiddling with them in between.
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Claude is nice to you, so it's easy to think it's better than Chat GPT. It's a better writer, and a very good thinking, but Chat GPT is better at most things.
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Because Claude is nice to you prompting it with "Don't tell me what you think I want to hear - be honest with me" is crucial. ChatGPT doesn't need as much of this. It's always honest, and give sober outlooks on things.
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People think "AI can't write" and that was true in August 2025. In May 2026 that's silly. I write a weekly newsletter to 20k people. I dictate it via Wisprflow, Claud writes the first draft and then I tweak it. I have fewer unsubscribes than I did before I started doing this. It still takes an hour, but it used to take two.
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It's best to have both the $20 Claude and $20 Chat GPT subscription if you can swing it.
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Claude is a great copywriter. ChatGPT keeps getting better.
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https://wisprflow.ai/ is a must.
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Kimi models with
are good when you want privacy, but I can't run a business with those models.
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I think and Claude are the two must haves if you do knowledge work.
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Knowing when to use High and Extra High and Medium with Codex is important.
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Claude Code starts to do dumb sh*t past about 65% of the context window. When I ask it at that point if we should write a handoff and start a new conversation it almost always says yes.
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I slept on Claude Cowork and that was a mistake. It saved me a ton of time a few weeks ago when I needed quotes from a dozen book publishers. It wrote the follow up emails too, and then compared the quotes. There was zero reason for me to do that work. I found a better company than my current printers.
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Browser control in Claude and Cowork is voodoo.
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"Early in their career" lawyers and accountants are in trouble. In a month I'll replace my bookkeeper. This tax season I created a simple tool that took all my tax info and was within 1k of what my accountant said I'd owe.
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Again, Claude writes very well. You can prompt it to never use em dashes.
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I should have more skill.md docs, but the key ones I have a so powerful.
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90% of the time I either start a Claude Code session with /plan or /superpowers.
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I spent a ton of time with Openclaw in Feb and it was a waste, other than it got me comfortable using the terminal, and then I dove into Claude Code.
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I worry that token cost for plebs will quickly be really high in the next year or two.
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- Perplexity Computer is very good at the things it's designed to be good at.