The Cheap Fix Card
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A log you never reread is a diary. Here is the five-slot card I use to turn an entry into something that actually gets seen again.
Read →Notes on building, learning, and helping people put AI to work.
Showing posts tagged ai-tools (9)
Show allWhy You Should Keep One
1 min readChecking your AI's work is the part nobody has a method for. A running log is the cheapest one I have found, and you can start it this afternoon.
Read →What the Pattern Says
1 min readSorting a month of AI near-misses into classes turned up one that keeps repeating, and it is not the one I expected.
Read →What a Cheap Fix Is
1 min readA cheap fix is a small change you earn from something that nearly went wrong. Here is the bar I hold them to, and two that made it.
Read →I Was Wrong About My Own Files
1 min readMy AI assistant flagged two files as migration casualties, on the evidence that one was newer and twice the size of its replacement. We opened them. Both were fine.
Read →A Messenger Who Moves at the Speed of the Data
1 min readOur analyst is a snail. Hermes is fast; Oregon's cannabis data reports monthly and harvests once a year. An honest messenger moves at the speed of its subject.
Read →One Tool, and What It Missed
1 min readVideoI ran a free accessibility checker over two sites I own. One came back with a single problem and no warnings; the other had eleven. They failed differently, and the useful part is what the tool could not tell me either way.
Read →Two Numbers That Do Not Fit Together
1 min readPeople are asking AI tools for local recommendations. People almost never click the links inside an AI answer. Both of those were measured, and neither one cancels the other out.
Read →One URL, No Login, Nothing Found
1 min readI ran a free accessibility check on my own site and it found nothing at all. That is not the same as passing, the tool says so itself, and then it hands you ten things it cannot check.
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