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Get AI Recommended. AI Search Brought Me 51 Subscribers in 60 Days. And It Wasn’t LLMs.txt.

With Attitude — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:07:32 +0000

The first in a practical series on making your work easier for AI to find, cite, recommend, and turn into subscribers.

ChatGPT took 7 months to find me.

Claude took 6.

Perplexity Computer: under 3.

When I discovered that Google was citing my work, I had a brief, but glorious,*well, look at me *moment. And for months, I assumed my llms.txt was to thank for that. I put real work into making it part of my content flow.

And if you have been reading about AI search, you have probably seen this advice:

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What Is the CCAR-F Exam, and Is It Worth It? A Decision Guide for Claude Builders

With Attitude — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 07:09:14 +0000

Claude Certified Architect – Foundations eligibility, cost, domains, practice questions, study plan, and whether the certification is worth it.

Last verified: September 1, 2026

CCAR-F, or Claude Certified Architect – Foundations, is the Foundations certification in Anthropic’s Architect track. It tests production architecture decisions across Claude Code, the Claude Agent SDK, the Claude API, agentic systems, Model Context Protocol (MCP), prompt engineering, structured output, context management, and reliability.

The exam has 60 multiple-choice and multiple-response questions, lasts 120 minutes, and costs $125. Pearson VUE delivers it online or at a test centre. Anthropic currently limits access to people at organizations in the Claude Partner Network.

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Claude Fable 5.1: What Chinese Coverage Says and English Doesn’t

With Attitude — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 07:08:39 +0000

136 Chinese queries later: What English coverage of Fable 5.1 missed.

My newest obsession is comparing how AI is discussed in the two countries shaping its frontier: the US and China.

I want to see what happens when you place the coverage side by side, for three reasons.

First, a model release may be a technical event, but the coverage around it is often cultural. It shows what each country celebrates and fears.

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Claude Fable 5.1: Pricing, Benchmarks, and the Safeguard Tax

With Attitude — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:17:00 +0000

Claude Fable 5.1 explained: pricing, benchmarks, API changes, Mythos 5.1 comparison, and Anthropics measurable safeguard overhead.

Last verified: September 2, 2026

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How to Read AI Model Cards Like an AI Product Manager

With Attitude — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:33:24 +0000

Free guide: Read AI model cards as a product manager, test benchmark claims, expose assumptions, and decide whether a model belongs in your product.

AfterThe Builder-Parent Paradox, readers started asking me two new questions:

Today Im sharing the methodology I use to read model releases. It has evolved over time and, given sufficient encouragement, could easily become a much longer article. But Im told readers occasionally need to eat.

The short version: define the use, inspect the evidence, map the system, expose the assumptions, make a decision, then monitor what happens after launch.

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Does Pangram Work on Substack? I Ran a 159,002-Word Experiment During Its First Month

With Attitude — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 07:03:14 +0000

An independent, single-author experiment across AI output, human writing, meeting transcripts and edited drafts.

I’ve been running a secret experiment on everything I write (and some of what I say in meetings) sinceannounced the roll-out of Pangram on July 21, 2026.

AI-assisted or entirely mine, every piece of writing went into the experiment.

A total of 159,002 words.

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GLM-5.3 Was Trained for Cybersecurity. The Overshoot Was the Surprise.

With Attitude — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:51:46 +0000

I audit Z.ai’s training claims, benchmarks, pricing, parameter count and delayed open-weight release.

Z.ai used one word to describe GLM-5.3’s security results, and that word changes how every benchmark is interpreted.

Emergent.

It’s clever language. Emergence has no author.

Read the launch post carefully. Z.ai introduced vulnerability-discovery data. It created environments where the model could practise. It collaborated with security teams in China on real codebases. When its multi-stage exploitation performance exceeded expectations, the language shifted to “emergence.”

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Stop Letting AI Choose Your Aesthetic: How to Build Stunning Websites When Your Taste Is Clear but Your Vocabulary Isn’t

With Attitude — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:18:04 +0000

Kimi K3: I designed the same newsletter hero 11 times. Every version is stunning. Copy the exact prompt and code for each.

After myClaude Design review, four PwA members have independently asked about design styles that don’t look blatantly AI-ish.

Or, more precisely: how to brief AI when the visual is clear in your head but not on your tongue.

We usually learn to like before we learn to explain why. And that's okay.

Don’t ever let it make you feel like you’re not ready to start experimenting. None of us were born with a design vocabulary.

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Skill: Weekly Reader Question Review

With Attitude — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:10:30 +0000

Analyze recent reader questions and identify recurring themes, pain points, and content opportunities.

The Skill was created in Cluing and tested in ChatGPT and Claude Cowork as a companion resource to my article on using Cluing for AI-powered research, knowledge management, and content workflows.

Read the article firstfor the full setup and context.

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Google Analytics 4 Cluing Agent Instructions + Daily GA4 Analysis Prompt

With Attitude — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:09:55 +0000

A ready-to-customize Cluing AI agent prompt for monitoring Google Analytics 4, diagnosing traffic and conversion changes, detecting anomalies, and generating daily GA4 reports.

This Cluing AI agent instruction is a companion resource to my article on using Cluing for AI-powered research, knowledge management, and content workflows.

Read the article first for the full setup and context.

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This Second Brain Will Change How You Write Your Newsletter: Cluing Review + AI Agents Preview

With Attitude — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:09:20 +0000

The new Cluing agents, MCP into Claude, Codex, Perplexity and Gemini, plus a gift for my readers.

I’m preparing for an AI Architect exam, which means I spend several hours a week asking AI to teach me how to AI, then searching the web for more AI, so I can pass an exam about AI.

A few weeks back, I was doing exactly that. Things were going well until I searched for a page and discovered I already had it open.

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I Build AI Products for a Living. Here Are 5 Things All Model Comparisons Miss.

With Attitude — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:12:18 +0000

What ChatGPT Work, Perplexity Computer and Claude Cowork assume about us, the users, and what they reveal about perceived AI intelligence.

This is perhaps not the finest evidence of my fiscal restraint: I pay separately for ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity (roughly $320 in subscriptions a month).

Yes, I know there’s overlap.

Yes, I know I can access some of these models through Perplexity.

But for me it makes perfect sense. I pay for the *intelligence *underneath and the *product experience *sitting on top.

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