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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AI tools & automation
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A decision framework for when to build a custom AI
Dylan Davis
September 4, 2025
AI tools & automation
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No-code & low-code
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Automation & tools
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Three questions tell you exactly when to build a custom AI.
A tax specialist GPT saved $10k by informing real advisor conversations.
GPT projects outperform custom GPTs for personal use — more features, persistent memory.
Automation & tools
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Document your process before automating it with AI
Dylan Davis
September 2, 2025
Automation & tools
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Processes & SOPs
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AI tools & automation
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Automating an undocumented process teaches AI to repeat your mistakes
A 20-minute AI interview replaces hours of developer documentation sessions
A smarter model reviews the final SOP to catch anything the interview missed
AI tools & automation
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Stop wasting money on AI: three costly mistakes and how to fix them
Dylan Davis
August 28, 2025
AI tools & automation
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Automation & tools
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Use 20 min/week learning features; apply to your top five use cases.
Binary pass/fail evals prevent overpaying for AI products that underdeliver.
Trusting AI over custom code cut cost 5x and raised accuracy to 98%.
Prompt engineering
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How self-reflection prompting improves GPT-5 output quality
Dylan Davis
August 26, 2025
Prompt engineering
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AI tools & automation
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Make GPT-5 grade its own work before you see any output
Cap the rubric at 5–7 items to prevent quality-degrading overthinking
High-stakes tasks need explicit rubric categories and named self-critiques
Compliance & regulation
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How to build animated, code-based presentations with AI
Dylan Davis
August 21, 2025
Compliance & regulation
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AI's coding ability makes PowerPoint-style tools obsolete
Write your substance first — AI handles visual generation only
Deploy slides as a public URL; no software needed to view
AI tools & automation
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Vibe coding tools mapped by use case and experience level
Dylan Davis
August 19, 2025
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Automation & tools
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70% of users only need chat tools — and that's enough.
Cursor's undo feature is why beginners should avoid Claude Code.
Enterprise agents like Devin target tickets, not full applications.
Prompt engineering
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Five prompting tricks to get better results from ChatGPT-5
Dylan Davis
August 14, 2025
Prompt engineering
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Automation & tools
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GPT-5's hidden router decides model, reasoning depth, and verbosity for you.
Trigger words like 'think deeply' push the router to stronger models.
A self-reflection rubric loop forces the model to iterate before responding.
AI strategy & adoption
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Eight signs your company's AI adoption is working in 30 days
Dylan Davis
August 12, 2025
AI strategy & adoption
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Communication
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Processes & SOPs
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Spreading AI power users evenly across departments beats clustering them in engineering.
Overly strict data-privacy rules can cost you more than a competitor moving faster.
A dedicated AI team identifying high-ROI use cases is the highest-leverage leadership move.
Automation & tools
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Claude Code $200 Plan: Lessons from 30 Days of Heavy Use
Dylan Davis
August 7, 2025
Automation & tools
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Processes & SOPs
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Deep work & focus
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Sonnet 4 consistently beats Opus 4 for coding tasks.
$200 plan only worth it at 4-5 hours daily coding.
Retroactive CLAUDE.md beats auto-generated /init output.
AI tools & automation
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What most people get wrong when starting with ChatGPT
Dylan Davis
August 4, 2025
AI tools & automation
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Productivity & habits
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Automation & tools
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70-80% of your use should be custom-primed AI, not default chat
Each model has a distinct job — defaulting to 4o leaves most value unused
Outsource your prompt-writing to the AI, then refine with a prompt generator
AI strategy & adoption
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A four-step funnel for finding where AI has the highest business impact
Dylan Davis
July 31, 2025
AI strategy & adoption
10
Processes & SOPs
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Start with your business bottleneck, not an AI tool
One priority goal narrows every downstream automation decision
Use AI itself to rank which activities to automate first
AI tools & automation
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Five AI Research Tricks to Get Dramatically Better Results
Dylan Davis
July 29, 2025
AI tools & automation
10
Prompt engineering
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Claude's parallel agents pull 300–400 sources; rivals average 60–100.
Match fact-finding, breadth, or depth questions to the right tool mode.
Third-party model synthesis with specific constraints eliminates output bias.
AI tools & automation
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Three context engineering mistakes that degrade AI performance
Dylan Davis
July 24, 2025
AI tools & automation
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Prompt engineering
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Automation & tools
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Contradictory context can drop model accuracy from 98% to 64%
Giving an AI more than 20 tools measurably increases wrong tool calls
Gemini 2.5 Pro loops on past actions once context exceeds 100k tokens
Deep work & focus
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Four irreplaceable human skills in the age of AI
Dylan Davis
July 22, 2025
Deep work & focus
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AI strategy & adoption
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Productivity & habits
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Matching the right AI model to each task is a learnable competitive edge.
Outsourcing reading and writing to AI quietly erodes your capacity to think.
Engineers who unlearn old workflows keep abstracting upward as AI advances.
AI tools & automation
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Using Google AI Studio's free tier to save hours of work
Dylan Davis
July 17, 2025
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Automation & tools
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AI Studio's free tier handles 150+ RPM with no paid plan needed
Gemini 2.5 Pro outperforms all rivals at 192k-token reasoning tasks
Package your codebase into one file to bypass tool context bloat