Most people are using AI like a slot machine. Pull the lever, hope for a payout, blame the model when it's generic. The makers I respect run a workshop instead. They've stopped asking AI for things and started telling it what they're building. Three moves: 1. Outcomes, not prompts. A prompt is a wish. A brief is a contract. When AI gets it wrong, your brief was ambiguous. 2. Context is king. Models are interchangeable. Context is yours. A bad prompt with the right context beats a great prompt with none. 3. Train your taste. AI gives you 90% in 10% of the time. Spend the 90% you got back on the trim pass. Your taste is the bottleneck now. Full deep-dive: aris-space.com/stop-prompting-start-defining-outcomes // A<3

I am known to take Claude outputs and put them into ChatGPT for blind-spot checks. Today I decided to create a "council of 5" skill that runs any question, problem, solution, document, etc., through 5 distinct personalities, with 3 rounds of discussion, then a consensus. 1. The professor: peer-reviewed/cited sources only 2. The teacher: logical, wonders, "is this the right question to be asking" 3. The founder: can this be done, and what is the fastest way 4. The outside: zero context, thinks outside of the box 5. The contrarian: hunts for the fatal flaw in everything. Sharing the skill here if it could help anyone.

I'm curious what everyone here likes to do for fun (of course building stuff with Claude is fun too lol), and if you've applied any AI to your hobby. For me it's been super useful for DND planning and I find I get to stay in creative flow more. Curious what other people are doing

So, after people's comments about longer breakdowns and more graphics in my posts, I decided to make a site where I can share downloads and more visual breakdowns of work I'm doing. 8 hours from concept to live site. 5 sessions. None of them above 50% context. The site is https://www.aris-space.com/ Built on Next.js 15, Tailwind v4, MDX, Zustand and react-rnd, deployed on Vercel. Full breakdown here VVV https://www.aris-space.com/documents/discipline-and-process/building-aris-space I architected. Claude executed. // A<3

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