guides.
Practical step-by-step pieces — 5 to 15 minutes of reading. How to do X.
7 pieces — across all sections
Markdown: the language you use to talk to ChatGPT and Claude
A quick guide to plain text formatting with no hidden styles: why hash signs and asterisks were right under your nose for twenty years, and now suddenly you need them to talk to AI models
When a Stranger's Text Can Give an AI New Orders
Prompt injection lets an outsider hide commands in a page or a document and make an AI follow them instead of its user. Prompt injection is already in the wild, spanning from courtrooms to state-run espionage, and there is no clean fix — only ways to limit the exposure.
How to Transfer Your AI Memory Between ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok (2026 Guide)
A quick guide to moving house: how to legally pull your own dossier out of ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini and get a new model to recognize you instantly
Can AI Write a Book for You? Yes, But You're Going to Regret It
An AI model can genuinely generate grammatically clean text at any length — but the prose will be terrible, and along with it you'll get plot amnesia, cardboard characters, impostor syndrome, and a whole host of other problems.
The Illusion of the Complex Prompt: Why an AI More Often Needs a Screwdriver Than a Laser Level
How to choose between zero-shot, few-shot, and CoT prompts so the LLM stops guessing and does exactly what you need
The Best AI Tools for Research When Every Model Lies Confidently
Even the best AI tools for research have problems.
AI Writing vs Human Writing: Why AI Sounds the Same (And How to Fix It)
Autoregressive generation, RLHF, Min-P, Style Anchoring — everything about what makes "pastel prose" tick, explained as plainly as possible
