Guide - Jdhwilkins

Your AI Therapist is Ruining Your Relationships

Discover why AI models indulge in sycophancy, validate false claims, and hallucinate facts. Plus, practical prompting strategies to get accurate, unbiased answers.

10 Sep 2026

Oh, your AI hallucinates? Yeah, I used to have that problem too

I build AI content workflows for a living, so reducing hallucinations matters. Here are the four techniques I actually use, from grounding to a critic-actor review step.

8 Jul 2026

Everything You Need to Know Before You Start Using Obsidian

Discover how to master Obsidian with our comprehensive guide. Learn why Obsidian is unique and how to navigate its features effectively today!

14 May 2026

Seamless Content Ingestion for Claude-Obsidian Second Brain

Explore seamless content ingestion for the Claude-Obsidian second brain. Discover tips on efficiently managing your Claude-Obsidian second brain.

22 Apr 2026

Few-shot prompting Vs. Zero-shot prompting. Which approach and when?

Most prompts don't need examples. This explains what few-shot prompting does, why examples help models, and when to actually reach for them.

20 Apr 2026

Role prompting - Giving AI a Persona

Role prompting is one of AI's most repeated tips. The research tells a different story. Here's what expert personas actually do to your outputs, and when to use them.

3 Apr 2026

Jargon Buster i. AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Generative AI

Every tech pitch uses AI, ML, and deep learning interchangeably. They're not the same. Here's what each term actually means and why the differences matter.

23 Mar 2026

Tokens and Context Windows: What They Are and Why They Matter

Tokens are how AI measures text. Context windows are working memory. When they fill, earlier content disappears. Here's what that means and how to manage it.

21 Mar 2026

Claude Code: Everything you need to know in 8 minutes or less

Claude Code works directly on your files, runs code, and manages tasks without you needing to be a developer. Here's what you need to know to use it well.

21 Mar 2026

MCP Servers: Giving Your AI Agent New Capabilities

MCP servers let your AI agent read from and act on external services without manual copy-pasting. Covers setup, authentication, and when to build your own.

5 Mar 2026

Level-up your AI Agent with Skills Engineering

Skills are reusable instruction sets for AI agents - write once, the agent uses them on demand. Covers structure, loading logic, security, and authoring tips.

5 Mar 2026

Getting Started with Agent Skills

Agent skills let you brief your AI once and have it work your way every time. Learn what they are, how to write them, and where to find ready-made ones.

5 Mar 2026

Getting Started with AI: The Fundamentals of Prompting

Prompting is a skill. This covers what an effective prompt includes - context, task, constraints, format, and examples - plus five techniques to get started.

22 Jan 2026

Forget "Think step by step", Here's How to Actually Improve LLM Accuracy

"Think step by step" used to reliably improve AI outputs. Modern reasoning models handle this internally. Here's what that means for how you should prompt now.

18 Jan 2026

Using AI to Map Legacy and Inherited Code: A Practical Guide

Master AI-driven code mapping with this 4-step guide to navigating legacy projects. Turn complex code into clear diagrams and actionable documentation.

1 Jan 2026

How Far Can You Push Excel with Regex?

Learn how to use regex pattern matching in Excel for advanced data cleaning, text extraction, and analysis.

15 Oct 2025

Still copy-pasting into ChatGPT? Here’s how to turn your ideas into AI-powered apps

Learn to build AI-powered apps using LLM APIs. This beginner's guide covers prompt engineering, function calling, and creating custom AI tools.

28 Jun 2025

You’re using ChatGPT wrong. Here’s how to prompt like a pro

Six advanced prompting techniques that improve ChatGPT outputs: roleplay, decomposition, chain-of-thought, tree-of-thought, shared context, and agreeableness.

2 Jun 2025

22/7 and the Approximation of Irrational Numbers

Unlock the math behind 22/7! Learn how continued fractions generate increasingly accurate rational approximations for irrational numbers like pi

19 May 2025

Formal Grammars – The Hidden Mathematics of Language

Explore the math behind language. Learn how formal grammars shape speech, code, NLP, and the rules machines use to understand us.

21 Apr 2025