For Practitioners

For Practitioners

For the individual sharpening their craft. Personal and professional tools you use directly — skills, prompts, techniques, and the essays that ground the practice.

If you build with AI as a partner, this is where you live.

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Essay

Cost Optimisation: some models are just cheaper

A £3 budget alert sent me down the AI-model-pricing rabbit hole. What I found - sneaky caching costs, order-of-magnitude spread between models, and why the answer for most SaaS chat workloads is boring.

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Essay

Your Creed: The Core of Who You Are

The sentence you say to yourself before the decision that counts. How to find it, how to write it, and how to hold it when the pressure arrives.

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Essay

The Catalytic Converter Arrives

Why we built a skill to help writers amplify genuine insight avoiding negative manipulation, and why this matters for how we communicate in an age of noise.

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Essay

The Return of the Thin Stack: Software in the Age of AI Synthesis

We traded machine efficiency for developer speed. Now that AI writes the code, it is time to buy back the bare metal.

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Skill
SFIA 3L3

Song Validator

Review and contribute to original songs using Phil's specific lyric writing style, rhyme schemes, and thematic progression formula. Anchored in intimate-to-epic post-rock worship structures.

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Skill
SFIA 3L3

Catalytic Converter

Transform existing articles into tight, effect-driven LinkedIn posts that drive traffic without manipulation. Grounded in psychological effects + distilled truth.

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Skill
SFIA 3L3

Adversarial Distiller

A four-persona method for extracting the incontrovertible truth from any written argument — what it cannot escape claiming, what it is really fighting against, and the subsidiary truths that survive the debate.

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Skill
SFIA 3L3

Article Accelerator

A human-led, AI-assisted workflow for producing rigorous, adversarially-reviewed written content — from rough idea to publish-ready article — at a fraction of the usual time investment.

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Skill
SFIA 3L2

Daily Augmentations

The foundational layer of Human/AI collaboration — everyday tasks where AI assistance is straightforward, immediate, and accessible regardless of technical background.

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Skill
SFIA 3L2

Reflection Loop

A fifteen-minute end-of-session protocol for AI-augmented work — five questions that extract genuine learning from every build session and compound your Learning Rate over time.

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Skill
SFIA 3L2

Error-Pattern Library

A personal AI-assisted database of failures and their extracted lessons — with a two-step capture workflow, AI-assisted processing, and pattern-finding that turns individual mistakes into a map of your specific failure modes.

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