Dylan Davis

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Dylan Davis focuses on practical AI workflows, automation habits, and simple operator-friendly systems that make everyday knowledge work faster and more effective.

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Included for practical guidance on practical AI workflows, automation habits, and simple operator-friendly systems that make everyday knowledge work faster and more effective.

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Productivity & habits

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Use dictation to get more out of AI tools

Dylan Davis December 15, 2024


Productivity & habits 8
AI tools & automation 6
  • Speaking is faster than typing — AI handles rambling input well
  • Built-in OS tools and Whisper Flow make dictation easy to start
  • Works for prompts, writing, search, and app-building tasks

AI tools & automation

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Using ChatGPT Canvas to improve existing writing inline

Dylan Davis December 14, 2024


AI tools & automation 9
  • Canvas shows suggested edits as inline highlights, not markdown clutter
  • One click applies each suggested rewrite directly to your text
  • Prompt Canvas to target tone, clarity, and reading level simultaneously

AI tools & automation

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Build More Apps Faster with AI: A Developer's Pitfall Guide

Dylan Davis December 8, 2024


AI tools & automation 9
Processes & SOPs 7
MVP & prototyping 6
  • A PRD written by O1 before coding eliminates most AI errors upfront.
  • Build phase-by-phase in Cursor; never hand the model the whole spec at once.
  • Escalate recurring bugs to O1, then validate its fix with Claude before applying.

AI tools & automation

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What six LLM practitioners learned building real AI products

Dylan Davis July 21, 2024


AI tools & automation 9
Product-market fit 6
  • Prompt engineering and RAG cover 80–90% of what most products need.
  • Fine-tuning's last 10% costs far more effort than teams expect.
  • Your moat is guardrails, caching, and feedback loops — not model choice.

AI strategy & adoption

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AI-driven operating systems: architecture, components, and security

Dylan Davis December 17, 2023


AI strategy & adoption 9
Cybersecurity basics 7
  • Every traditional OS component has a direct LLM equivalent today
  • Autonomous agent swarms will replace step-by-step user prompting
  • Prompt injection demands a rethought security stack, not bolt-ons

AI strategy & adoption

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Why banning ChatGPT from your company is a mistake

Dylan Davis November 22, 2023


AI strategy & adoption 9
Automation & tools 6
  • LLM data leakage odds are roughly one in a million
  • Blocking AI tools costs 14–34% productivity per employee per hour
  • RAG architectures carry a genuinely higher leakage risk than base LLMs

Niche selection

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A structured framework for generating and vetting business ideas

Dylan Davis July 17, 2023


Niche selection 9
MVP & prototyping 8
Long-term planning 6
  • Start with a specific community you belong to, not a blank page
  • 10x excitement in a small group beats 60% lukewarm interest
  • 95% of ideas die in the writing phase — that's the point

Automation & tools

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eBPF: how it works and why it matters for cloud native security

Dylan Davis February 16, 2023


Automation & tools 9
  • IP-based security tools are blind inside ephemeral Kubernetes environments
  • eBPF hooks programs into the kernel without modifying or waiting on it
  • Attackers can also weaponise eBPF for invisible root and data deception

Processes & SOPs

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What makes an ideal smart contract audit report

Dylan Davis June 12, 2022


Processes & SOPs 9
Compliance & regulation 5
  • Writing quality matters more than any structural element in audit reports.
  • Exploit scenarios in every finding make developer buy-in far more likely.
  • Short-term fixes and long-term architectural recommendations should be separate.

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