Opus 4.7 Reads the Same Words. Counts More of Them.
Anthropic’s new model uses a new tokenizer that burns through up to 35% more tokens for the same text. Sticker price didn’t budge. Your bill might…
 • Nick Quick
Opus 4.7 Takes Your Prompts Literally. Here's What That Means for Your Voice.
Anthropic's latest model released today and it reads instructions more precisely than older versions did. Three prompts to re-test this week, and why…
 • Nick Quick
Prompt Libraries Are a Participation Trophy for AI Productivity
Build 5 actual skills instead. Here’s the walkthrough.
 • Nick Quick
Your Draft Got Flagged As AI. The Detector Isn't Wrong. You Are.
Eight tells that make clean human writing look like a robot wrote it, plus the pre-publish checklist that fixes them in fifteen minutes.
 • Nick Quick
The Bowling Pins Are Dancing and Nobody’s Watching
What Iranian Lego propaganda taught me about the only thing that matters in content
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I've Been Hiding the Menu in the Bathroom
The hardest part of monetization isn't building trust. It's opening your mouth after you have it.
 • Nick Quick
The Best Monetization Strategy Looks Like Self-Sabotage
Five scary editorial plays that convert better than your best content.
 • Nick Quick
Your Readers Don’t Trust You Yet
The invisible permission ladder every subscriber climbs before they’ll pay you a dime.
 • Nick Quick
Now Put It Back Together
Yesterday's red team tore your draft apart. Here's the 15-minute process that puts it back together without destroying your voice.
 • Nick Quick
You Need An Enemy
How to build an AI red team that stress-tests every post before your audience does
 • Nick Quick
A billion-dollar funeral for AI
OpenAI killed Sora because audiences stopped watching. Might be the best news creators have gotten all year.
 • Nick Quick
How to Systematize Mediocrity in Five Easy Steps
Forbes just handed every small business a half-solution to AI slop. Here's how the other half goes wrong.
 • Nick Quick
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