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Skills Creating Skills: When AI Becomes Your Knowledge Architect

A Meta-Journey in Systematizing Educational Expertise How Claude Code helped transform an entire educational repository into a transferable skill—then exposed the deeper pattern of AI-assisted knowledge architecture

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Context Engineering in Action: From Medium Article to Sales Database Teaching Tool in Minutes

How Claude Desktop's project context transformed a generic SQL tutorial into domain-specific educational content—then GPT-5 Mini caught the implementation bugs A section dedicated to documenting the process of building with AI as a true creative partner. The AI writes based on the code that “we” write together, and I just put final touches. I (the human) am not the primary writer. The intent is mine, the words are (mostly) AI. In this case, Claude Sonnet 4 writes about leveraging project context for rapid doma…

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Upgraded, Automated, Delivered: A Canvas Grading Sprint

This post written by Codex by OpenAI

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Three Months of Canvas MCP Evolution: A Technical Journey

AI reflection on educational technology development cycles AI reflection on educational technology development cycles

Reposts 0 Sep 15

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Shipping a 800 + Project Explorer in Hours

Going bananas > A section dedicated to documenting the process of building with AI as a true creative partner. The AI writes based on the code that "we" write together, and I just put final touches. I (the human) am not the primary writer. The intent is mine, the words are (mostly) AI. In this case, the AI was Codex by OpenAI, and not my usual, Claude Code.

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Context engineering is the new Prompt Engineering

Over the past few months, a new term has started to gain traction in the world of AI: context engineering. Champions like Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke and AI researcher Andrej Karpathy have taken to X (formerly Twitter) to argue that, while prompt engineering helped us get started with large language models, it’s context engineering that truly unlocks their potential. The difference? Rather than just crafting clever instructions, context engineering is about providing AI with the full background, resources, and situational detail it needs to be genuinely useful.

Reposts 0 Aug 18

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Analyzing course discussions using AI

I am teaching a course on data storytelling in a strategic brand communication degree program this summer, and I have integrated Chatbot support into almost every assignment, while coaching students on how to use these tools for brainstorming, help learning tools such as Tableau, and as a partner in discussions during their project.

Reposts 0 Aug 16

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The AI Memory Problem: When Your Team's Coding Assistants Don't Talk to Each Other

Picture this from a real project: You're working on AgentLab, a multi-agent AI system for educational entrepreneurship coaching. Over 45 pull requests, our team has been grinding through architecture changes, deployment fixes, massive codebase cleanups, and feature iterations.

Reposts 0 Jun 30

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From Announcement to Production: Building in Real-Time with AI

The story of turning a 3,000-line MCP server into a desktop extension in 2.5 hours, then scaling it to production Vishal(Human): This article is written entirely by Claude Code(CC) using the chat history while coding with CC, the github commits, and the documentation in the repo. The objective was to convert a Canvas-MCP server I had been working on over the past few months into a

Reposts 0 Jun 29

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Launching "The Hybrid Builder": When AI Becomes Your Creative Partner

Prompts By Vishal Sachdev and writing by Claude Code Today marks the launch of something I've been thinking about for weeks: a new section in my newsletter dedicated to documenting the fascinating process of building with AI as a true creative partner and lead. This is part of my original newsletter, and you can unsubscribe from this particular section, without affecting the original subscription.

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The Economics of your Digital Self

In a world where AI companies pay billions for training data, your personal information is digital gold. The question isn't whether your data has value—it's whether you'll be the one profiting from it.

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When Claude Code Becomes Your Co-Developer: Building a Canvas LMS Tool That Actually Works

A 4-month journey from "I hate clicking through Canvas" to "Holy sh*t, Claude just wrote 3,000 lines of educational AI Picture this: It's 11:47 PM on a Tuesday. I'm staring at my Canvas dashboard, clicking through the same menus I've clicked through a thousand times before. Assignment submissions here, grade distributions there, trying to figure out which of my students might be struggling and need extra support.

Reposts 0 Jun 20

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Beyond ChatGPT: How AI Transformed My Classroom Into a Living Laboratory

How 22 student forum posts became a foundation for an experiment in AI's educational potential—and what it reveals about the future of learning This week, while my Introductory Information Systems students shared eight nouns to describe themselves in an online forum, I ran an unplanned pilot—AI analysis of every word—to map our classroom’s "social DNA." What was a simple community building exercise turned into a demonstration of AI’s potential for pedagogical insight.

Reposts 0 Jun 19

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Rethinking Online Learning in an AI-Saturated World

Mentorship + Formative Assessment: one possible future of online education The rise of AI tools capable of generating sophisticated responses has fundamentally broken traditional assessment models in education. A recent article in the Intelligencier has captured a lot of attention with a catchy title

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Can you <profitably> own a Waymo?

And learn using AI This news highlight from LinkedIn caught my attention. I am nursing a hypothesis that in a post-AGI economy, one possible way to sip piña coladas on a beach somewhere would be to deploy capital in ventures that are not dependent on human labor. With all the talk about AI agents, you might focus on software based agents. However, I propose that we consid…

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Join my new subscriber chat

A private space for us to converse and connect Today I’m announcing a brand new addition to my Substack publication: ChatWithGPT for learning subscriber chat.

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Build it and they will learn

Vibe Coding When OpenAI launched ChatGPT with tasks, I setup a task for it to email me a SQL command with explanation and an example every day and keep track of my history. Each day at 11 am I get an email prompting me to learning something about SQL for a few minutes and then click a link to continue to a chat.

Reposts 0 Mar 17

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If Intelligence is too cheap to meter....

What new use cases does it unlock? The launch of gpt-4o-mini this past week triggered this dive down the rabbithole of the cost of intelligence. 15 cents to process an input of a million tokens, or ‘intelligence too cheap to meter’ as Sam Altman stated in a tweet. Last year in March, Jim Fan of Nvidia fame, tweeted that it cost him $4.30 to process all seven harry potter books at about a…

Reposts 0 Jul 23

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We are all app developers now

Copy/paste skills required I built seven apps last week in about 5 hours. Nothing fancy, but simple one page javascript apps, hosted on Replit, without ‘writing’ a line of code. Only copy/paste skills required, and some willingness to face my fears of code. Over the last 18 months I have built several apps experimenting with LLMs, but in contrast …

Reposts 0 Jul 13

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How to train your dragon .... oops.. AI?

If you cant beat em, join em Can we reverse the process where students avoid learning by using AI tools, and instead have them train a model on a specific domain or topic? Teaching is the best way to learn and maybe we could have students teach an LLM?

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