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Konstantin Konovalov

Practical AI for real work. I break down Claude, Claude Code, MCP and agents into steps you can actually ship. No hype, just what works.

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Delegation over autocomplete: treat the model like a fast, literal junior

Delegation over autocomplete: treat the model like a fast, literal junior

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Why our course material rots every week, and how we ship fixes behind the tool

Why our course material rots every week, and how we ship fixes behind the tool

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The re-ask test, and four other cheap checks for hallucinated output

The re-ask test, and four other cheap checks for hallucinated output

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Never let a model take the irreversible step

Never let a model take the irreversible step

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We put an AI helper in our course and spent weeks teaching it to say I don't know

We put an AI helper in our course and spent weeks teaching it to say I don't know

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Evals before vibes: a tiny prompt test harness you can run in CI

Evals before vibes: a tiny prompt test harness you can run in CI

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Reading a 40-page spec with an LLM without getting burned

Reading a 40-page spec with an LLM without getting burned

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How we keep AI-written docs from inventing API params: a verified-facts registry

How we keep AI-written docs from inventing API params: a verified-facts registry

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Make it better is the worst thing you can tell an LLM in code review

Make it better is the worst thing you can tell an LLM in code review

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RAG is not magic: the retrieval bugs that make your bot confidently wrong

RAG is not magic: the retrieval bugs that make your bot confidently wrong

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A non-developer on our team shipped an internal tool before I did

A non-developer on our team shipped an internal tool before I did

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Prompt injection is still eating apps in 2026

Prompt injection is still eating apps in 2026

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Force structured outputs and make your LLM calls testable

Force structured outputs and make your LLM calls testable

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Your prompt works in the playground and dies in production

Your prompt works in the playground and dies in production

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You Don't Need a Better Prompt. You Need a Brief.

You Don't Need a Better Prompt. You Need a Brief.

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Inbox and Calendar on Autopilot with Claude: What's Actually Safe to Automate

Inbox and Calendar on Autopilot with Claude: What's Actually Safe to Automate

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Turn Your Routine Into an Assistant: A Practical Guide to Small AI Helpers

Turn Your Routine Into an Assistant: A Practical Guide to Small AI Helpers

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Teach Claude one repeatable job: a field guide to Skills and Plugins

Teach Claude one repeatable job: a field guide to Skills and Plugins

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Pick Your AI by the Task, Not the Hype (A Simple Routing Framework)

Pick Your AI by the Task, Not the Hype (A Simple Routing Framework)

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Stop Re-Explaining Yourself to Claude: Structure a Project That Remembers Your Work

Stop Re-Explaining Yourself to Claude: Structure a Project That Remembers Your Work

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Stop Reaching for a Bigger Model. Fix the Prompt First.

Stop Reaching for a Bigger Model. Fix the Prompt First.

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Claude vs Gemini: pick the model by the job, not the benchmark

Claude vs Gemini: pick the model by the job, not the benchmark

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Claude Artifacts: When a Chat Answer Becomes a Running Tool

Claude Artifacts: When a Chat Answer Becomes a Running Tool

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Cheap Tokens or Reliable Work? Claude vs DeepSeek, Without the Hype

Cheap Tokens or Reliable Work? Claude vs DeepSeek, Without the Hype

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From One Task to a Working Agent: Trigger, Data, Action, Deliver

From One Task to a Working Agent: Trigger, Data, Action, Deliver

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The "what not to change" section: the cheapest fix for AI coding agents that quietly break things

The "what not to change" section: the cheapest fix for AI coding agents that quietly break things

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ChatGPT Is Everywhere. So When Do I Actually Reach for Claude?

ChatGPT Is Everywhere. So When Do I Actually Reach for Claude?

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Use Claude Code to clean up files and folders without writing code

Use Claude Code to clean up files and folders without writing code

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Claude vs ChatGPT for real code: editing, debugging, and big repos

Claude vs ChatGPT for real code: editing, debugging, and big repos

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What is the Model Context Protocol (MCP)?

What is the Model Context Protocol (MCP)?

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