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Iterating designs with Chat GPT 4o

Discover how to leverage Chrome's hidden command palette and ChatGPT to transform your website screenshots into sophisticated wireframes. Learn a clever workflow that combines Chrome's full-page screenshot capability with ChatGPT's AI-powered design suggestions to create professional 16:9 ratio mockups for your next project.

Will Schenk April 7, 2025
Iterating designs with Chat GPT 4o

Thoughts on gemini

Will Schenk April 4, 2025

Thoughts on gemini

Despite popular narratives about Google lagging in AI, their Gemini models reveal engineering excellence that's hard to ignore when you strip away the conservative product decisions and UI polish. From the lightweight yet powerful Gemma 3 to the multimodal capabilities of Gemini 2.5, Google's models demonstrate a level of speed, precision, and fundamental understanding that suggests they're not playing catch-up—they're just being cautious.

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Use the llm cli for quick prototyping

Will Schenk April 3, 2025

Use the llm cli for quick prototyping

Transform your workflow with a command-line tool that brings AI capabilities directly to your terminal, no complex setup required. See how to parse websites, analyze transcripts, and extract meaningful data using the llm CLI with popular models like Gemini and Claude.

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Lift and shift

Will Schenk April 2, 2025

Lift and shift

Master the art of learning from existing projects by using this structured approach to extracting and documenting requirements and insights. With simple command-line tools and clear documentation practices, you'll be able to turn any existing implementation into a wealth of reusable knowledge.

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Claude to write midjourney prompts

Will Schenk March 31, 2025

Claude to write midjourney prompts

Transform your written content into compelling visual concepts by using Claude as an intelligent intermediary for Midjourney prompt creation. See how combining prompt libraries with AI analysis can help you explore multiple creative directions before settling on the perfect visual representation.

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Schema-Driven AI: Better User Experiences with Structured Output

Will Schenk March 30, 2025

Schema-Driven AI: Better User Experiences with Structured Output

Transforms chatting from simple text generators into powerful data processing engines, enabling extraction of organized information from PDFs, audio files, and more. Here are some practical techniques for building, including audio analysis, pdf data extraction and conversation state management, showcasing how constraint-driven outputs can power rich user experiences.

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Moral Vibe Check

Will Schenk March 24, 2025

Moral Vibe Check

Technical correctness and meaningful insight: well-formatted, detailed AI responses can mask a fundamental lack of understanding—a "raving lunatic" hidden behind impressive form. Maybe P-doom is less about malice and more of making us intellectually poorer by substituting form for substance, facts for understanding, and technical accuracy for wisdom.

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Image Gen on Apple Silicon

Will Schenk March 21, 2025

Image Gen on Apple Silicon

We've got the apple silicon, lets download some models and make some pictures

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Adding Memory to Cursor

Will Schenk March 20, 2025

Adding Memory to Cursor

Transform your Cursor IDE into a more intelligent assistant by implementing a sophisticated memory system adapted from cline-memory-bank. This enhanced version includes TDD principles and integrates seamlessly with your prompt library, allowing your AI assistant to maintain context and remember important details across multiple coding sessions.

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Planning, brainstorming and idea development

Will Schenk March 20, 2025

Planning, brainstorming and idea development

Transform your rough concepts into detailed project specifications with this powerful prompting technique that guides you through an in-depth development process. By asking just one thoughtful question at a time, AI helps you create comprehensive, developer-ready plans that cover every essential detail.

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Make it easy to load and update your prompt library

Will Schenk March 19, 2025

Make it easy to load and update your prompt library

Never lose track of your valuable AI prompts again with this elegant solution for maintaining a personal prompt library. The system provides simple commands to list, load, and save prompts, making it effortless to reuse and iterate on your most effective conversation starters.

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Recipes big and small

Will Schenk March 18, 2025

Recipes big and small

The hardest thing about living in the future is that we're figuring it out as we go. Here's some notes of things to play with.

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Superwhisper for input

Will Schenk March 18, 2025

Superwhisper for input

Imagine talking to your computer and having it type for you—Superwhisper makes it real. Check out how this tool speeds up input and even lets you tweak the output.

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Talking to the models in the car

Will Schenk March 18, 2025

Talking to the models in the car

Discover how voice-activated assistants like Google and ChatGPT can transform your car rides into interactive conversations. Learn tips like using search and prompts to dive deeper into news or ideas while on the go.

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Extracting requirements

Will Schenk March 16, 2025

Extracting requirements

Need to understand all the requirements hidden in a codebase? This technique shows how to use LLMs to compile comprehensive specifications from repository analysis for immediate development use.

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Exposing Services with MCP

Will Schenk March 15, 2025

Exposing Services with MCP

Model Context Protocol bridges the gap between AI models and your applications. Learn how defining simple tools with descriptions and parameters lets Claude intelligently combine services without explicit instructions.

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Write git-commit-messages

Will Schenk March 15, 2025

Write git-commit-messages

Learn how to automate Git commit message generation with this simple but powerful prompt for Claude. The template enforces conventional commit format with appropriate type prefixes and detailed descriptions, making your repository history more professional and useful.

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Making Meta Data

Will Schenk March 15, 2025

Making Meta Data

Generating metadata doesn't have to be a manual process when you can leverage AI prompts to produce multiple options quickly. Discover how to implement command-line tools that streamline metadata creation while maintaining your role as the final decision-maker.

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Using repomix to give llm full context

Will Schenk March 14, 2025

Using repomix to give llm full context

The post focuses on how to give LLMs full visibility into a codebase to improve their understanding and responses.

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Understanding a code base

Will Schenk March 14, 2025

Understanding a code base

Explore three complementary approaches to rapidly comprehend any codebase using the latest AI assistants and developer tools. Follow along with practical examples showing how to extract key information about memory systems and other complex functionality with minimal effort.

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Agentic YOLO with Warp, Cursor, and Claude

Will Schenk March 7, 2025

Agentic YOLO with Warp, Cursor, and Claude

What happens when you let AI help you think through and build your ideas, with minimal supervision and maximum trust? What does it mean to be a programmer? Are we closer or further from thought-stuff?

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Clipboards are eating the world

Will Schenk February 25, 2025

Clipboards are eating the world

The untold story of how your computer's clipboard sees itself as the essential bridge between humans and AI tools in the creative process. Through its eyes, we witness the journey of how digital projects come together through countless transfers between different AI services.

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The New Touch Interface

Will Schenk February 11, 2025

The New Touch Interface

The real killer apps of smartphones weren't the early games but became things like group chats and video calls that fundamentally changed how we communicate. Similarly, while we're currently amazed by AI's capabilities, we're still discovering how these tools will meaningfully integrate into our lives.

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Tools for thinking. Everyday AI.

Will Schenk January 30, 2025

Tools for thinking. Everyday AI.

From building nuclear fusors to probing Vatican AI doctrine, this exploration reveals how AI tools are reshaping our daily intellectual work in surprisingly practical ways. Through examples of interfacing with databases, analyzing legal documents, and diving into deep research rabbit holes, we see how AI assistants are becoming intuitive research companions that expand our ability to quickly understand and synthesize complex information.

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How I classify models

Will Schenk January 21, 2025

How I classify models

Small models are smart yet limited in knowledge; foundation models possess both deep understanding and extensive knowledge but lack structured problem-solving approaches. Educated models like DeepResearch excel by combining learned reasoning processes with large memory capacities, enabling them to adapt effectively to complex tasks while handling vast information instantaneously.

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AI for research: DeepResearch a clear winner

Will Schenk January 12, 2025

AI for research: DeepResearch a clear winner

Asking the tough questions: DeepResearch excels in depth and comprehensiveness, while o1, Sonnet 3.5, and DeepSeek with DeepThought provide comparable results for complex inquiries. Smaller models like phi4 and llama3.2 are deemed inadequate for intricate topics.

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Learning on the go with NotebookLM

Will Schenk January 9, 2025

Learning on the go with NotebookLM

By utilizing NotebookLM, an AI model capable of generating audio summaries and interactive conversations, you can create customized podcasts on-the-go. You can also join the conversation.

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Making hard things easier

Will Schenk December 15, 2024

Making hard things easier

Explore how generative AI-based tools can revolutionize the way we work, making creative tasks more accessible and efficient for both novices and experts, while also highlighting the importance of critical thinking and creativity in the face of automation.

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Welcome to The Focus AI

Will Schenk November 29, 2024

Welcome to The Focus AI

Let me tell you a bit about what we do here, a personal journey from cofounding a software development company to exploring the revolutionary potential of generative AI and how it's transforming the way humans interact with knowledge and information.

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Slicing up a design from figma

Will Schenk November 27, 2024

Slicing up a design from figma

In this hands-on comparison, three coding tools - Cursor, Aider, and v0 - are put to the test as they attempt to replicate a design from Figma into functional HTML and CSS code, revealing their strengths, weaknesses, and quirks.

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AI DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION USING BEST IN CLASS AI
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