Alex McFarland
Inside a one-person, all-Claude operation. Real systems, shown in the open so you can build your own.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 188 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 7 days ago |
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Become an AI Operator in 30 days
I know exactly where most people are stuck with Claude, because they tell me every week.
It’s not the tools. They have the Desktop app open. They’ve read the guides — mine and everyone else’s. They’ve saved prompts, watched walkthroughs, m...
How to Manage Claude Like a New Hire (5 Rules)
Most people are still using Claude the way you’d use a very fast search box. You open it, you ask, it answers, you close it. Everything it did for you disappears the moment you walk away, and tomorrow you start over from nothing.
The peopl...
Opus 5 is here, and it's going to cut your model bill
Claude Opus 5 came out today.
Anthropic’s line on it: it “comes close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price.” On their coding and knowledge-work evals, Frontier-Bench and GDPval-AA, they call it “the new state-of...
How to have Claude tidy your inbox every morning (safely)
Claude Routine prompt inside
An assistant you can’t trust with your email is useless, no matter how smart it is. So this setup earns trust the only way anything does: with hard limits.
Every company just created an AI seat. Almost nobody can do the job.
76% of companies now have a Chief AI Officer. A year ago it was 26%.
That’s IBM asking 2,000 CEOs. I’ve been in AI since 2019, and I have never seen a seat appear on org charts that fast. Nothing close.
And I think almost everyone is read...
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