The End(s) of Argument
Mike CaulfieldLooking for the structure underneath the noise
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My De-Claudifying Memory File to Ditch Claude's "Word Mosaics"
Note: as you read this please realize that if you are using Claude to write simple stuff for you you probably won't see this sort of thing, but I run projects where Claude is summarizing 20,000 plus items a day, and trust me it does go off...
Blog Posts as LLM Repair Code
I did a very weird thing today. I fixed my prompts by having Claude read my blog post on why its Claude-edited prompts perform so poorly.
Let’s start with the problem.
As I mentioned a couple weeks ago, all the prompts Claude writes for y...
I Finally Understand Why LLMs Suck at Writing Prompts (And It Might Be Fixable)
You may have noticed that LLMs suck at writing prompts. If you write a simple prompt like this:
Produce near comprehensive list of all notable films throughout film history that have a “old dark house” or “old dark house adjacent” plot d...
Four Tips for Better Prompting
Chart of tips described below
Avoiding the information smoothie
Before we introduce the tips, it’s worth asking what we are trying to accomplish.
The main focus of these tips is to encourage students to “avoid the information smoothi...
Tagging Motel Noir
As you all know, I’ve been working on this plot.fyi project for a while, my film discovery tool. But the point of the project is really a point about education. When you engage in making something real and substantial with an LLM you end up...
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Co-author of Verified. Creator of the SIFT method for information literacy. Currently rethinking how online information literacy is taught in the age of AI.
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