AI for Beginners
Phillip AlcockPlain-English AI for everyone else.
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Anthropic Fable 5 Shutdown
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Friday, 5:21pm Eastern. A letter arrives at Anthropic’s offices, and somewhere in the world, a few thousand workflows stop mid-sentence.
The argument started immediately. Was it Trump admin retaliation for Anthrop...
Start with an Empty Square
Start with an Empty Square
Prompt idea:
Create a simple square image with a plain white background and nothing inside it.
Then keep adding one object at a time:
- Find and add one red flower in the bottom-left corner. Use the promp...
What “Error Handling” Actually Means
You’ve seen it. You ask the AI a question, it says “I don’t have enough information to answer that” and stops. Nothing else. You’re back where you started.
Error handling is the instruction you add that says: don’t stop, give me what you’v...
What “Meta-Prompting” Actually Means
Meta-prompting. Say it out loud and it sounds like it belongs in a computer science degree. It doesn’t. Essentially you ask Claude to look at your prompt and tell you what’s wrong with it before you run it.
You use AI to fix how you talk t...
What “Retrieval-Augmented Prompting” Actually Means
“Retrieval-Augmented Prompting.” Say it out loud and it sounds like something a developer drops into a meeting right before everyone looks at their phones. Here’s what it actually means: you give Claude your specific document, your audit, y...
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I'm Phil. I create 'Human-in-the-loop' AI workflows for Education and I am the Co-founder, PBL Future Labs: AI x Learning Design. Essentially - I simplify AI and make efficient learning AI workflows. Australian. Based in Mexico.
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