There was a time when attention was free. You gave it away without noticing — to a sunset, to a long conversation, to a book that took days…
Read more Harvesting Attention: What You Do While Your LLM Works – Dragos RouaThere’s a line from Boris Cherny, the head of Claude Code, that’s been quite present in the back of my mind for the past week. Paraphrasing: he doesn’t…
Read more I Write Loops, Not Prompts – Here’s What I Learned – Dragos RouaRay Dalio has been saying for a while that the dollar is in trouble. Not right now, not tomorrow, but rather at a structural level. His theory on…
Read more Can AI Inference Replace Oil as the Next Reserve Currency?When I really started to amplify my work with AI, the most annoying thing was the message: “you have hit your quota, usage reset at 3:00 AM”. That…
Read more Just 5 Words: AI Storytelling with Apple IntelligenceA couple of weeks ago I shared my blueprint for vibe coding iOS apps in coffee shops. The post was well received (and the Reddit snippet made over…
Read more Vibe Coding Lessons: Build iOS Apps in 7 Days + Genesis PromptA recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage that lasted 13 hours was reportedly caused by one of its own AI tools, according to reporting by Financial Times. This…
Read more 13-hour AWS outage reportedly caused by Amazon’s own AI toolsToday, a social network (I won’t name names) reminded me that 7 years ago I completed Stanford University course on cryptography. It wasn’t an easy course, I still…
Read more The (Surprising) Long Term Benefits of Continuous Learning – Dragos RouaIt used to be a time when showing up to the task at hand was somehow the guarantor of success. I lived most of my life in that…
Read more Showing Up Is Not Enough Anymore: Surviving the AI EraIn hindsight, it was inevitable. But let’s take it slowly. A few months ago, I published a mega-prompt teaching Claude the Assess-Decide-Do framework. It was an experiment, but,…
Read more AIGernon: An Always-On AI Assistant Powered by Assess-Decide-DoIt’s 9AM and I am sitting in my favorite coffee shop. Somewhere in Mekong Delta, or in Lisbon, or in Seoul, doesn’t really matter. What matters is that…
Read more How I Build iOS Apps from Coffee Shops Using Claude CodeA few months ago I published a mega prompt that teaches Claude to think with the Assess-Decide-Do framework. I wrote about it on Reddit and the post got…
Read more From One Repo to Three: How ADD Framework Expanded Across the Claude Ecosystem – Dragos RouaWhen I first integrated my Assess-Decide-Do framework into Claude, I used a 24,000-character megaprompt. It worked remarkably well – and it was my first experiment ever with applying…
Read more Assess Decide Do in Claude, but with Skills – Dragos RouaIn the last 3 months I’ve been targeted twice by a relatively sophisticated scam on LinkedIn. What follows is a short description of the pattern and some common…
Read more How To Avoid Being Scammed on LinkedIn – Dragos RouaAs AI becomes better and better, there’s a strong tendency to anthropomorphize it – to perceive it as a human being, with emotions and consciousness. I first talked…
Read more Is AI Magic? What Claude’s “Appropriate Modesty” RevealsNo, the title is not a mistake, it’s a reality. You can literally insert any app name there and it will still hold true. I know, I know,…
Read more Claude Cowork Just Killed [ Insert App Name Here ] – Dragos RouaWhat is bio content and why 2026 might be its breakout year. I believe 2026 will be the year of “bio content”, a.k.a. human generated content, as opposed…
Read more Bio Content In 2026 – A Bet – Dragos RouaIn the late 1960s, a Stanford psychologist named Walter Mischel put preschoolers in a room with a marshmallow. The rules were simple: eat it now, or wait fifteen…
Read more AI Killed the Marshmallow Test: What Happens to Patience?Last weekend I stumbled upon Andrej Karpathy’s LLM Council project. A Saturday hack, he called it—born from wanting to read books alongside multiple AI models simultaneously. The idea…
Read more LLM Council, With a Dash of Assess-Decide-Do – Dragos RouaThe crypto mantra “don’t trust, verify” now applies to all digital life. Practical filters for surviving deepfakes, bots, and AI-generated content. dragos@dragosroua.com (Dragos Roua) Source link
Read more Don’t Trust, Verify: Surviving the AI Misinformation AgeInstead of a traditional year-end recap with a long list of things I did, I’ll focus on four themes that defined 2025 for me. This was the year…
Read more 2025 Year in Review – Dragos Roua
