A blog about supercharging personal productivity with AI tools and workflows

• My AI Pair Programmer

  Taming Claude Code’s overconfidence

  Posted on September 1, 2025

  As a 20-year QA veteran (aka “professional pessimist”) I’m slightly embarrassed to admit it, but at the beginning, I was completely charmed by Claude Code. It took longer than I’d like to admit to start seeing through its constant ego-boosting vocabulary. I mean… who doesn’t relish in the words “You’re... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • working-with-ai
  • prompting
  • ai-coding

• Smarter Custom GPT's

  Levelling up my knowledge files

  Posted on June 3, 2025

  Some of my Custom GPTs just work. They feel sharp, relevant, and surprisingly aligned with what I need—even with minimal prompting. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • custom-gpts
  • working-with-ai
  • knowledge-files
  • context-retrieval
  • prompting

• My AI customer avatars

  Instant customer insights 24/7

  Posted on April 25, 2025

  Around the same time that I started experimenting with Custom GPTs I was also reading the book The 1-Page Marketing Plan. Following the book’s guidance, I had just finished creating a very detailed description of “My Target Market” and saw an opportunity to turn it into a Custom GPT that... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • custom-gpts
  • working-with-ai
  • prompting
  • persona-design

• My AI teammates

  GPTs that genuinely understand my business

  Posted on April 25, 2025

  When I first started to grasp what LLMs could actually do, I wondered what would be possible if I could customise the GPT to understand a specific context (e.g. my business). At the time, this was only possible with complex custom setups. But that changed when Open AI released the... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • custom-gpts
  • working-with-ai
  • knowledge-files

• How I talk to AI

  Without the perfect prompt

  Posted on April 25, 2025

  Since ChatGPT launched in November 2022, I’ve been equally curious, intrigued and skeptical about what can be achieved in this magical chat window. I started by poking it with a metaphorical stick, trying to work out if it was alive or dead, friendly or hostile. Through lots of learning and... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • custom-gpts
  • working-with-ai
  • prompting