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ChatGPT Images 2.5: Six Ways to Use It If You Make Things Online
What's new in Images 2.5, six jobs it's genuinely good at for creators and builders, how to keep a series visually consistent, and where it still slips.
Claude Connectors: What to Connect First and How to Stay in Control
How connectors work, how to connect one, which to pick by job, the permission settings to change before first use, how to keep conversations lean, and how to add any MCP server as a custom connector.
Claude Design, From First Prompt to Working Code
What changed in Claude Design, where to start, why your design system comes first, a brief template, when to use chat, comments or canvas edits, and how to export or hand off to Claude Code.
GPT-5.5 Leaves Codex on October 14. Here's What to Do Before Then
What the GPT-5.5 retirement changes in ChatGPT and Codex, whether to switch to Sol or Terra, where gpt-5.5 hides in your setup, how to test before the deadline, and why model retirements are now routine.
Rebuild Your AI System This Weekend So Any Tool Can Plug In
A two-day, two-hour plan to move your AI setup into a folder you own: build the core, fill it with your real context, plug in Claude and ChatGPT, set the habits, and add any future tool with one line.
ChatGPT Sites: What to Build, How to Brief It, and When to Use Something Else
When Sites is the right tool, a build brief that gets a strong first version, six builds worth trying, how to edit without breaking the live site, and a checklist before you publish.
ChatGPT's Memory Lives in Five Places. Here's How to Control Each One
The five sources ChatGPT remembers from, a 10-minute audit, where each kind of context should live, project-only memory and temporary chats, and the gotchas that make deleting harder than it looks.
7 Perspective Shifts That Reverse AI Brain Rot (Without Using AI Less)
A 60-second self-check, seven shifts with one move each to keep your creativity, judgment and memory while using AI heavily, what the research actually says, and a delegate, collaborate or own map.
Stop Saving Everything: An AI Filter That Keeps What's Worth Remembering
A capture, filter, store and resurface workflow for articles, videos and podcasts: set your lens once, turn each source into a keep card, review weekly, and package it as a skill.
What to Build With GPT-6 Astra That Wasn't Worth Trying Before
Where GPT-6 Astra is actually different, five builds with starter prompts (playable explainers, adjustable proposals, decision simulators, 3D walkthroughs, expertise as a tool), where it trips, and a prompt to find your own.
GPT-Live in ChatGPT: Setup, Six Things to Try, and Where It Falls Short
Turn on Live in ChatGPT Voice, set it up in two minutes, try six use cases with copyable openers, and know its limits before you rely on it.
How to Start a Big Project in Claude Code
Why the idea dump breaks on large projects, and a four-phase workflow of research, spec, architecture and per-feature builds, with lean context habits and starter prompts.
I Had $100 in Expiring Claude Credits, So I Put Them Toward Testing Fable 5.1
Opinions on Fable 5.1 are all over the place, so I tested it with credits that were about to expire. Here are the tests, what to look for, its limits, and how to decide if it's worth it for you.
The 10-Minute Weekly Context Audit That Stops AI Mistakes From Sticking
A step-by-step Sunday audit with copy-paste prompts to catch saved mistakes early and keep your AI's memory and context in sync with your priorities and circumstances.
Subagents: When to Split the Work and How to Set Them Up
What subagents are, when they help, four patterns that work, how to set them up in Claude Code and Codex, and the costs and gotchas to watch.
How I Use AI to Index My Brain Like a Multimodal Warehouse
Results over tangled, hyped workflows that look impressive but deliver little: a role-based way to build a personal AI system you actually use, while keeping the index in your own head.
Voice Is Becoming the Front End for AI Agents
What full-duplex voice models like GPT-Live-1 change: voice as a front desk for backend agents, voice in and screen out, where voice lands first, hidden costs, new risks and the bigger picture.
Stop Building Your AI System Inside One Tool
Build one shared baseline of context, skills, agents, workflows and memory, then add thin wrappers so Claude Code and Codex can both run it and you can switch tools mid-task.
Claude Code vs Codex: Where Each One Wins for Me
An honest take from using both: where Claude Code wins, where Codex wins, where they overlap, which fits your situation, and how to use both without starting over.
Follow-Up Prompts That Fix Weak AI Answers
Copy-paste follow-ups organized by what's wrong with the answer: too generic, possibly wrong, too long, undecided, unchallenged, unclear or not in your voice.
How I Keep My Claude Code Setup From Drifting
Signs your Claude Code setup has drifted, what to check in each layer, a 15-minute monthly pass, and three rules that keep skills, memory and tools matched to how you work now.
Claude Code Commands I Use on Repeat to Stay in Flow
The Claude Code commands and settings that keep me in flow, then the rest organized by when you need them: setup, planning, context, undo, parallel work, review, automation and shortcuts.
MCP vs CLI: Which One Should Your Agent Use?
When to give your agent an MCP server and when a command-line tool is better: context costs, what changed with on-demand tools, permissions and a five-question way to decide.
The AI Tool Map: Pick the Right Tool for the Job
About 60 AI tools organized by the job they do, with when to pick each one, how to start, what to check before paying and what changed in 2026.
Claude, End to End: A Hands-On Guide From First Chat to Working System
Setup, plans, models, prompting, research, files, artifacts, Chrome, computer use, connectors, skills, scheduled tasks and privacy, with copy-paste prompts for each step.
ChatGPT, End to End: A Hands-On Guide From First Chat to Working System
Setup, plans, models, prompting, research, files, Sites, plugins, skills, scheduled tasks and privacy, with copy-paste prompts for each step.
How to Become an AI Amplifier: My 5 Rules for Turning AI Into an Unfair Advantage
Five personal rules for turning AI into useful results: set stopping conditions, bring your own judgment, challenge assumptions, apply what you learn, and build a workflow that fits you.
5 Codex Features That Put It Back in My AI Stack
Goal Mode, Appshots, Browser Annotations, Sites, and Developer Mode: the five features that changed how I actually work with Codex.
How Watermark Removers Work in 3 Steps
Cleaning hidden characters, stripping file metadata and rewriting text are three different operations. Only one of them touches the statistical pattern in the words.
How to Give AI Taste
Turn the choices you already make into a living taste file that helps AI create work that actually sounds and feels like you.
Routine vs Schedule vs Loop
A practical way to decide what should repeat, when it should start, and how an AI system knows when to stop.
ChatGPT Work vs Codex: When to Use Which
A practical guide to choosing between ChatGPT Work, Codex, and Chat based on where the task lives and how you need to review it.