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Mike Caulfield

Looking for the structure underneath the noise

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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...

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Four Tips for Better Prompting

In terms of AI information literacy right now I am working on two things. One is the remake of SIFT, which is a model that is explicitly about how to use AI to verify and contextualize the information one comes across.

That said, not all...

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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...

a month ago
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We could be building a better world with our students. Why are we disempowering them instead?

There’s a mystery at the heart of our educational moment for me. At the moment when the progressive dream of constructionism in education was poised for victory… many educators decided to walk away.

If you don’t know what constructionism i...

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A simple starter film data prompt: Calculating on-screen film deaths in 1998

I didn’t mean for the last post about Plot.fyi to be a tutorial about how to create an enriched dataset using Claude Code. I can’t really show you how to build Plot.fyi, because building something like that is something that happens over ti...

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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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