Claude Clue #23: MCPs Are Just Toolboxes, Not Magic
Claude gets more interesting when you expand what it can touch, and that's where MCPs come in.
Christopher Moravec
Episode 66 - Don’t Tell Claude Who to Be
Tell it what task it's doing and what scope it's working in. The "you are an expert" prompt is mostly cargo cult now; a list of NEVER statements is brittle.
Claude Clue #22: Feed Claude More Than Text
Claude Code can already see images and PDFs—you paste them in with Alt+V on Windows or Ctrl+V on Mac. But it doesn't stop there.
Episode 65 - How to tend a codebase
I double down on the idea that keeping up with AI-generated code looks a lot like gardening: seeds, soil, water, pruning, weeding, and sometimes pulling up a plant.
Claude Clue #21: Say What You Mean. No, Really.
Claude Opus 4.7 is more literal than 4.6, and Anthropic flagged it directly in the release announcement.
Episode 64 - Context is King
The number one reason folks struggle with AI tools is they don't give the model enough to work with. Context is the cheapest upgrade you can make to any AI workflow today.
Claude Clue #20: Effort Is the New Thinking
If you've been using Claude Code for a while, you might remember manually toggling between thinking modes or typing 'ultrathink'.
Episode 63 - AI in ArcGIS, How to Start
Esri now has a whole family of AI assistants built into ArcGIS—Arcade, Pro, Survey123, Item Details, Story Maps, Hub, Documentation, and more. I suggest starting with a workflow you do every week so you can start to learn when to trust the AI tools.
Claude Clue #19: Stop Babysitting Claude with AutoMode
Let Claude decide what's safe and what isn't...!
Episode 62 - Break The AI
I built an 8-bit video game-style AI red teaming game that lets you try to break various chatbots with different guardrails so you can see how it works.