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Context Engineering: Frame Everything Prior to the Prompt
Last week at AgentCamp in Christchurch, hosted by Steve Knutson at Stratos Technology Partners, I spoke about a shift that is quietly transforming how people work with AI. Most people still think the secret to good AI output is writing a clever prompt, but the deeper truth is that prompting is only a small part of the equation. The real leverage comes from context engineering—everything you frame up for a LLM, prior to the prompt. Antonio Gullí described context engineering as "the discipline of [...]
The OpenClaw moment 🦞
AI is having a moment right now, and it's because of OpenClaw. OpenClaw is an AI Agent that controls its own computer. This open-source AI agent can run on an old laptop, or a Mac mini, or a VPS, a Virtual Private Server. With its own hardware, email accounts, and web browser, its own memory and soul, installing OpenClaw creates a 24/7 AI assistant working on whatever you want. You don't want to run OpenClaw on your own machine - [...]
The Evaluation Loop: How AI Improves Its Own Output
AI is better at evaluating content than generating content. This makes sense, when you stop to think about it. For a large language model to interpret your instructions, and create output, all in the same step, it dilutes the same token budget over two requests. But if you have ask AI to evaluate its own outputs, it can focus all its attention on identifying how to improve. Then it can rewrite, separately. Here’s a simple copy/paste [...]
What’s working now with AI Enablement?
Giving your team Copilot licenses will not magically create AI transformation. That mindset is treating AI as a technology problem, when it is actually an operator problem. Most leaders I meet don't have a clear idea about what AI could do for their organization, or how to embed change at this scale. So they give new tools to untrained operators, and they just sit there, full of untapped potential. What I find works best is when people have three things: Sandbox: Create [...]
How to Coach Your AI (So It Actually Improves)
After 4 weeks of hosting AI Coaching Power Hours in my new community, the Ai Coaching Academy, we've uncovered some best practices: Provide specific feedback when responses aren’t satisfactory, guiding the AI to refine its output. Break down complex requests into smaller, more manageable steps. Use probing questions to help the AI dig deeper or explore alternative perspectives. Be patient and iterative, treating the AI interaction like a collaborative coaching conversation. Clearly articulate expectations and the measure of success for the task. [...]
The Ai Coaching Academy is live!
📊 Build the capability of the future, together. If you've been following me for a while, you know my story. If not, here's the TL;DR - I ran away and joined the circus, and lived as a street performer, hitchhiking across the United States. I settled down and had kids, moved to Costa Rica, and started my own digital marketing agency. My family moved to New Zealand, where there are no natural predators. I wrote a book called Marketing Yourself, which helped thousands of [...]