AI Literacy

Skills engineering is how we teach AI agents to handle tasks in the way we want them done. Instead of hoping the agent figures it out, we provide detailed instructions that guide its decision-making process. But not all skills are created equal. A poorly written skill wastes tokens , confuses the agent , and produces inconsistent results . A well-crafted skill makes your agent faster, more reliable, and easier to maintain. The quality of your skills directly determines your

Write Once, Use Forever. Think about the last time you explained your workflow to a new hire at work. You probably didn't just hand them a list of tools and wish them luck. You walked them through the process, explained why things work the way they do, and maybe showed them an example or two. Three weeks later, they're flying solo. AI can't do that. At least not out of the box. Every conversation starts from scratch. There's no memory of how you like things done, no recollect

AI agents are useful on their own. But out of the box, they're working in isolation — they can only see what you paste into the conversation. They can't check your calendar, search your company's files, pull live data from a platform you use, or send a message on your behalf. MCP servers change that. What is an MCP server? MCP stands for Model Context Protocol. The technical details aren't important. What matters is what it does: an MCP server is a connection between your AI

Modern AI chat tools are powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), which are sophisticated systems trained on vast amounts of text data to understand and generate human-like responses. LLMs like Claude and Gemini don't truly "understand" in the human sense, but they excel at recognizing patterns in language and predicting what text should come next based on your input. This is why the quality of your prompt matters so much. The AI model can only work with what you give it, m

And What Happened to CoT Prompting? Prefer to listen to this article instead? I used ElevenLabs TTS  to create this narration. Check them out using my affiliate link, here . "Think step by step" ...was once great prompt engineering advice, but now seems to have little to no effect. In fact, what if I told you that this technique, at best, has little effect on output quality, and at worst, increases costs, latency, and may even reduce the accuracy of your response? It decreas