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Notes from AI work I want to find again

Tool tests and classroom AI notes, plus the workday fixes I kept needing to look up again.

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September 4, 2026 · 2 min read

I'm hosting.

Astra Commons is coming to Casper. Join me and OpenAIDevs on September 12 at CitiWerks for free coffee, food, and GPT-6 credits.

September 3, 2026 · 3 min read

How to get more Grok Bot usage (without paying more)

Grok Bot is awesome, but the rate limits suck. Here's a little trick that's totally legit: run Cursor, Grok Build, Codex, or Google's anti-gravity on Grok Bot's own Linux terminal so the coding work does not eat your usage.

August 31, 2026 · 6 min read

Your Grok Bot setup is a mess

I organize Grok Bot like an org system with a chief of staff, project leads, and shared specialists.

June 16, 2026 · 4 min read

one card run beat a year of errands

A night-before anniversary card run left me with a Poke recipe, one dollar-store trip, and a card bench for the next year.

June 15, 2026 · 4 min read

the row shape was the build

I cleaned up a tiny content ops problem that was getting just annoying enough to matter: one promo slot had turned into a pile of platform rows.

June 4, 2026 · 4 min read

the chart needed a memory

A monthly slide update became a source note: chart, numbers, read of the month, and the manual paste step.

June 2, 2026 · 4 min read

the comment had no instructions

A vague assigned comment had no instructions, so I built slide-ready notes. The deck edit stayed manual because that was the right handoff.

May 29, 2026 · 4 min read

I did not have to ask

The board already knew what could move and what needed to wait, so the day started without another tab hunt.

May 28, 2026 · 4 min read

no specialists in the room

A motion piece in Jitter while the designer was out, a Descript API transcript pull to answer a livestream viewer, and a full workshop follow-up that never left Notion.

May 27, 2026 · 4 min read

the dashboard asked first

Opening the day to a ready-made operating card that pulled the real priorities into one place.

May 26, 2026 · 4 min read

the system stopped living on one laptop

A chopped-up day left me with a workshop board and a repo the agents could all read. The content plan got smaller too.

May 25, 2026 · 4 min read

the brief was the build

A small prep automation gave the fuzzy workshop lane a page that was ready on Monday.

March 27, 2026 · 10 min read

He told me he felt like he could finally read

A student told me the tool let him read. The hard part was deciding which friction was still the work. From a Skilling Future Podcast conversation about AI inside a school.

February 20, 2026 · 12 min read

revision history may not catch the agent

Agentic browsers can move through web assignments in ways revision history may not catch. That changes what a teacher can verify after the work is done.

March 3, 2025 · 12 min read

most teacher AI apps are wrappers

Most teacher AI apps are wrappers around the same models. I would start with the frontier tools, then add classroom-specific apps only when they save real time.

February 22, 2025 · 10 min read

context, a revision, then check the work

Before the app choice matters, students and teachers need a few repeatable habits: give the model context, push for a revision, then check the work before trusting it.

February 2, 2025 · 15 min read

I made these AI mistakes as a teacher first

I made plenty of AI mistakes as a classroom teacher. These are the ones I would clean up first, especially for schools trying to move past panic and tool demos.

Where the rough notes start

LinkedIn and X get some of the rough notes first. The blog is where I keep the version I need to find later.