Category Archives: AI

MacBook Neo Review: A18 Pro CPU, 8GB Reality, and the Thermal Wall

Thursday, 2026.03.12 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. I have not been paid by Apple or anyone else to write this. I used Claude AI as a research and drafting assistant, then verified all benchmark data against the source results before publishing. The Short Verdict The MacBook Neo is the fastest single-core laptop you can buy for $599 or even lower at $499 educational pricing! It also drops to phone-class performance after about 60 seconds of sustained CPU load. Both of those

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How 25,000 Junk Folders Were Breaking My AI Doc Organizer (Garbage In, Garbage Out)

Thursday, 2026.03.05 J.D. H. Leave a comment

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

Claude AI Custom Instructions: A Real Example That Actually Works

Monday, 2026.02.16 J.D. H. 2 comments

TL;DR: Here’s a custom Claude instruction that works well for most people: *Just a note about the “unlimited resources“, Claude tends to UNDER estimate what it is capable of, and maybe even what you are capable of. Like when it estimates a task will take 4-10 hours or multiple days of sessions and then proceeds to knock it out in a few minutes. SO, sometimes it helps to be a bit aspirational in your instructions. 💪💪 Why this works: Claude

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Best Computer for Claude Code in 2026

Friday, 2026.02.06 J.D. H. 4 comments

Updated April 28, 2026. Originally published February 6, 2026. TL;DR: If you are looking for the best computer for Claude Code in 2026, my short answer is the MacBook Air M5 (currently $150 off on Amazon). Most people do not need a monster workstation. The AI heavy lifting runs in the cloud. Your machine handles file I/O, builds, test suites, and your dev environment. Cheapest Mac that works: the $599 MacBook Neo. Windows: a ThinkPad with 32GB of RAM. Desktop

How to Set Up WAN Video Generation on Windows 11 with LoRA [Wan2gp]

Sunday, 2025.12.14 J.D. H. 2 comments

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