AI

Hands-on guides to LLMs, agents, prompt engineering, and the AI tools Botmonster runs every day for real work, not demos.

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AI Engineering from Scratch is 1,095 hours, not 320

The AI Engineering from Scratch curriculum advertises about 320 hours. Its own roadmap phases add up to 1,094.5, with capstones alone claiming 620.

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Best AI text tools 2026

Best AI text tools 2026 for drafting, summarizing, grammar, and translation. Which free tiers finish a real job and which stop you at the paywall.

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Make Opus 5 less verbose with an output style and a hook

Make Opus 5 less verbose with a custom output style, a UserPromptSubmit hook, and fewer CLAUDE.md rules. The env var everyone shares backfires.

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ego lite lets your AI agent use every login you own

The ego lite browser for AI agents gives each agent an isolated Space that inherits your real logins. The project ships the skill, not the browser.

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Pi never asks permission before it touches your files

Pi coding agent ships no permission system and runs with your full user rights. Here are the three containment patterns and the supply chain rules.

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Ten i-have-adhd rules that stop your AI from rambling

i-have-adhd is a 142 line Claude Code skill with 10 output rules that kill agent filler. What the rules do, where terse output hurts, how to fork it.