Generative AI, Explained
A plain-English tour of generative AI — how it differs from older AI, the main families of tools, where it goes wrong, and how to use it responsibly.
Privacy, bias, and responsible use
Powerful tools come with responsibilities Using generative AI well is not only about getting good output — it is about not causing harm along the way. Three habits cover most of it: protect data, watch for bias, and stay accountable. Do not paste secrets into public tools Anything you type into a public AI tool […]
Reading AI output like an editor
The output is a draft by someone confident and unaccountable Generative AI writes with unearned assurance. There is no hesitation in the prose when it is guessing, which means fluency tells you nothing — and the habit worth building is reading output the way an editor reads a submission from a bright, fast, occasionally careless […]
What you may and may not put in
The input side is where most organisations get hurt Attention goes to what AI produces. The costlier mistakes usually happen at the other end — in what people paste into it — and they happen quietly, with good intentions, by someone trying to get their work done. Assume it leaves the building Unless you are […]
Your own first workflow
One task, done properly, beats ten experiments Most people try generative AI on a dozen things, find it uneven, and drift away. The ones for whom it sticks pick a single repeating task and get it genuinely right, once. The saved prompt then pays back every week without further thought. Choose well The task should […]
Working with Claude
Get practical results from Claude — what it is good at, how to feed it long documents, how to ask for structured output, and how to use it responsibly.
Using Claude responsibly
Powerful assistant, human in charge Claude makes you faster, but the responsibility for the result stays with you. A few habits keep AI-assisted work trustworthy. Verify what matters Claude can sound certain and still be wrong. For anything that carries weight — a figure in a report, a legal or medical claim, a name or […]
Claude alongside other tools
Loyalty to one assistant is a habit, not a strategy People settle on one tool and use it for everything, which is understandable and mildly costly. The assistants have genuinely different shapes, and knowing roughly where each is strong saves more time than any prompting technique. What tends to differ Context size and document handling. […]
A verification habit that fits a busy day
The check has to be quick or it will not happen Everyone agrees AI output should be verified. Almost nobody does it consistently, because the advice is usually “check everything” — which is unrealistic, so people check nothing and feel vaguely guilty. A habit that survives a real week has to be proportionate. Three questions, […]