Disclaimer: I haven’t been paid by Apple or anyone else to write this. A laptop chip just posted a Geekbench 6 single-core score of 3,461 while drawing about 6.6 watts. For context, the LED bulb in your bathroom probably draws more power than that. The chip is Apple’s A18 Pro – the same one from the iPhone 16 Pro – and it just beat every M1 MacBook Air ever made for single core tasks. In a $599 laptop. 🤯 $599.
How 25,000 Junk Folders Were Silently Breaking My AI Document Organizer (Garbage In, Garbage Out) Thousands of (somewhat) zombie Quicken folders taken care of via compressing them into one 7z archive: Details: My AI File Organizer Was Fighting 25,000 Phantom Folders (And Losing 😜) For a while, my automated document filer was misbehaving. Scan an insurance card — it suggests filing it in a folder called Q-Final. Scan a bank statement — it wants to put it in Attach. The
TLDR: Here’s a custom Claude instruction that works well for most people: I’m a [your profession] with [brief context, e.g. “limited time” or “a small team”]. Here’s how I need you to work with me: * Research FIRST, then advise. Especially web-search before giving product-specific advice, pricing, or recommendations. Training data goes stale. Today’s answer matters! * Challenge my reasoning instead of validating it. If my approach has a flaw, say so. Skip the flattery. * When there’s a tradeoff,
A Hardware Guide for People Who Actually Work With AI With regards to AI and Claude, here’s what most people are not writing about yet: the hardware side of working with Claude, and more importantly, the human side. A lot of AI blog and Reddit posts out there fall into one of two camps. Camp A is obsessing over local LLM rigs, how many NVIDIA H100s you can cram into a tower, how much VRAM you need to run a
Wan2GP install on Windows 11 [tips and potential fixes] I recently needed to setup Wan2GP for a client project and if you’ve got an NVIDIA GPU with decent VRAM and want to get into AI video generation, WAN (Wan2.1/2.2) models are currently some of the best open-source options available. Here’s my guide to getting it running on Windows, including the gotchas I ran into along the way. What You’ll Need Your Two Main Options Option 1: Wan2GP (Recommended for Most