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#694 Neil: Build 3 Claude Artifacts for Real Work Without Coding · AI Fire Daily

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  There is a strange irony in how we use artificial
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  intelligence today. You have an entire software
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  workshop sitting right there at your fingertips,
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  a brilliant logic processing system. Yeah, it
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  really is. And yet you probably still just ask
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  it to type out paragraphs. Exactly. We treat
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  a supercomputer like a passive typist. We really
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  do. We use this massive capability just to draft
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  emails. It is a huge blind spot for most people.
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  We are Practically using a Formula One car to
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  drive down the driveway. Just to check the mail.
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  Right. We're barely scratching the surface of
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  what the technology can actually do. Welcome
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  to this deep dive. I am very glad you are here
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  with us today. Thanks for having me. I am excited
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  to dig into this. We are looking at something
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  today that fundamentally changes that dynamic.
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  We are looking at your notes, your workflows,
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  and how you can stop typing. And start building.
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  Yes, start building. Yeah, we are moving way
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  past simple text generation today. Our mission
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  is highly practical. Which is necessary. Very
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  necessary. We are going to build interactive,
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  no -code applications. And we're going to do
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  it right inside your chat window. That is a powerful
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  concept. I will admit something here. I still
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  wrestle with prompt drift myself. It is incredibly
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  easy to lose focus when you are staring at a
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  blinking cursor. Right, and that happens to everyone.
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  You start with a really big ambitious idea and
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  you somehow end up just generating generic bullet
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  points. Every single time. But we have a clear
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  roadmap to keep us on track today. We are exploring
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  three specific hands -on tools, tools you can
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  build today. Exactly. First, we will look at
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  an interactive time map. Second, a collaborative
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  planning workspace. And finally, custom micro
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  tools for your team on the floor. Before you
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  can optimize your team or your tools you have
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  to understand your own baseline. Right. You have
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  to know where you are starting from. Where do
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  your 40 hours actually go every week? That is
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  the million -dollar question, isn't it? It is.
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  To find out, you do not just ask the AI for general
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  advice. No, you need hard data. You ground it
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  in reality. You start by feeding Claude seven
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  days of your actual work logs. How do you get
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  those logs? You can just export your recent calendar
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  events. It takes seconds. Export them as a simple
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  text file or a CSV. Before we go further, we
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  need to define some terminology, just to anchor
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  the mechanism here. Sure, that makes sense. What
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  exactly are Claude artifacts? Dedicated side
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  windows for interacting with code, charts, and
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  visual apps. That makes perfect sense. So it
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  is not just a chat interface. No, not at all.
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  It is a dual screen experience. The AI takes
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  those calendar logs you uploaded, and it conducts
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  a four -phase audit. Yes. I really want to unpack
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  how it actually processes this data. It acts
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  as a highly analytical mirror for your week.
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  OK. What is phase one? Phase one is purely categorization.
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  It reads the raw data you provided. Just sorts
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  it all out. Yeah. It groups similar activities
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  together. It is looking for hidden patterns you
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  might miss. Like realizing you have five separate
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  sync meetings. Exactly. Then phase two shifts
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  into scoring. Scoring your productivity. Yes,
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  on a scale from 1 to 5. It is actively judging
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  your efficiency. It is, but objectively. Okay.
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  It analyzes the assumed business impact versus
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  the task complexity. Okay, I see. What comes
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  next? Days 3 is where it shifts into problem
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  -solving mode. It suggests very concrete improvements.
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  Things you can actually act on. Right. It calculates
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  exactly what you need to automate, what you need
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  to delegate, or what you should just drop entirely.
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  Looking at the logs you provided for this deep
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  dive, the data was genuinely staggering. It usually
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  is for most people. The audit revealed seven
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  hours lost entirely to emails. Seven hours. That
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  is almost an entire working day just managing
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  the inbox. It is a massive drain. And the AI
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  found another six and a half hours dedicated
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  just to reporting. Yeah. Updating spreadsheets,
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  writing status updates. Let us sit with that
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  for a second. That is over 13 hours gone before
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  any actual deep work begins. It is exhausting
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  just thinking about it. That is a psychological
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  heavy lift. This is where phase four comes in,
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  right? Yes. Phase four is the payoff. The AI
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  creates a prioritized action plan to reclaim
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  that time. But it doesn't just print out a list
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  of tips. No. It visualizes all of this in a custom
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  dashboard. Because it is using an artifact. Exactly.
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  It generates the underlying code. It renders
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  an incredibly sleek clickable donut chart. Showing
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  your exact time distribution visually. Yeah.
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  You click a category on the chart and the task
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  details seamlessly expand underneath. It feels
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  like real software. It is real software. It's
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  running locally right in your browser. But the
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  most powerful feature here is the scenario planner.
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  Oh, absolutely. This is my favorite part. This
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  is like stacking Lego blocks of data. That is
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  a perfect way to describe it. Right. You pull
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  that red block out of your schedule. Right. And
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  you tell the AI to let the blue deep work block
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  slide in to fill the gap. The whole structure
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  just adapts automatically. And you do it without
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  destroying your original calendar data. Exactly.
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  You are testing different workflow optimization
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  ideas safely in a sandbox. When you move those
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  metaphorical blocks, what happens? It recalculates
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  your whole week in real time. You'd see the immediate
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  impact of dropping that weekly sync. I have to
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  push back here, though. Okay. Let's hear it.
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  How do we ensure the AI doesn't just invent fake
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  time savings? These systems often want to please
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  the user by telling them what they want to hear.
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  That is a critical vulnerability. And it requires
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  strict prompt architecture. You have to set rigid
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  boundaries. You explicitly instruct the AI to
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  never invent activities. It cannot fudge the
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  productivity metrics to make you feel better.
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  It has to stick to reality. It must clearly separate
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  confirmed historical facts from its forward -looking
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  estimates. You are explicitly stripping away
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  its ability to hallucinate results. You are forcing
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  it to act as a strict calculator. You force it
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  to stay grounded exclusively in the data you
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  provided. If it doesn't have the data, it has
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  to ask you, not guess. Right. It cannot make
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  assumptions. If I approve these changes in the
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  dashboard, how does this actually alter my week?
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  The artifact generates a strict seven -day checklist.
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  And it bases that checklist only on those approved
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  recommendations. So it is highly specific to
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  me. Very specific. You get actionable daily steps
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  tailored to Tuesday rather than vague generalized
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  advice about focusing more. So it builds a realistic
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  daily checklist from your approved changes. Yes.
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  You can literally check tasks off day by day
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  as you execute the new plan. Optimizing your
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  own schedule is deeply satisfying. It really
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  is. You feel incredibly in control. You do. But
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  real friction happens when your perfectly optimized
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  plan collides with a messy human team. Oh, absolutely.
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  That is where most beautifully crafted plans
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  fall completely apart. Human variables introduce
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  chaos. They do. Every single time. Let us explore
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  this collaborative aspect. In the scenario you
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  shared with us, we are building a team planning
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  brief. Right. We are looking at a pretty massive
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  undertaking here. An 80 -person, in -person,
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  creative skills workshop. running from nine in
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  the morning until four in the afternoon. It is
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  a very standard corporate event structure, but
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  with a terrifying amount of moving parts behind
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  the scenes. Tons of moving parts. We have several
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  distinct roles involved here. Yeah. We have an
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  event coordinator, a content lead, an ops lead,
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  and a marketing lead. And everyone has completely
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  different priorities. Coordination between those
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  distinct roles is usually a nightmare. You end
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  up with endless document revisions. Confusing
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  email threads. Version control issues. Someone
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  always has the wrong schedule. This is where
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  surgical editing and artifacts becomes vital.
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  It changes everything about collaboration. Normally,
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  if you ask an AI to change a document, it rewrites
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  the whole thing. Yeah, and you lose your specific
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  phrasing. It ruins the tone. But here, instead
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  of regenerating a massive document, you just
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  highlight a specific section. It is so much faster.
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  You just drag your cursor over the schedule section.
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  Just that one block of text. Right. Then you
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  ask Claude directly in context to give attendees
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  more hands -on practice time. It edits only that
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  highlighted section. It adjusts the timelines
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  locally. And the rest of the document remains
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  entirely untouched? The budget, the venue details,
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  the speaker bios? Completely unchanged. It saves
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  an incredible amount of time. More importantly,
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  it prevents new, unforced errors from creeping
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  into sections that were already finalized. Exactly.
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  Sections that your boss already approved. The
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  workflow architecture they describe for this
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  is fascinating. It is very structured. Request,
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  review, hand off, and execute. It is a very clean
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  progression. The AI manages the state of the
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  document. It keeps everyone on the exact same
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  page, literally and figuratively. I think the
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  real tangible value here is how it highlights
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  conflicts. Oh, that is a lifesaver for project
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  managers. You specifically instruct the AI not
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  to resolve team conflicts automatically. The
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  human in the loop element is crucial there. The
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  AI shouldn't make executive decisions for your
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  team. Like if the marketing lead wants to advertise
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  the workshop dates. Right. But the ops lead hasn't
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  actually confirmed the venue rental yet. The
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  AI flags the discrepancy. It forces a human to
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  make the final call rather than just assuming
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  a solution. It is acting as a neutral, highly
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  observant mediator. It highlights the logical
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  dependency. You can't market a location you don't
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  have. Exactly. But it does that without overstepping
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  its bounds and guessing a fake venue. How do
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  we prevent teammates from mistaking a draft schedule
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  for a final decision? The prompt architecture
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  handles this beautifully. How so? It forces the
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  AI to visually mark everything as proposed by
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  default. So it is clearly labeled. Yes. It stays
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  in that draft state until a human explicitly
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  marks it as approved. Your external commitments
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  remain totally frozen. Unapproved items stay
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  locked to prevent accidental vendor bookings
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  or schedule errors. You definitely don't want
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  ops accidentally paying a caterer a $10 ,000
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  deposit for the wrong Tuesday. No, you do not.
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  Just because they saw a draft schedule that changed
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  10 minutes later. Now that your team is fully
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  aligned on the plan and the conflicts are resolved,
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  you have to execute. The rubber hits the road.
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  This brings us to the third segment. Building
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  custom no -code micro tools for the actual floor.
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  This is hands down my favorite part of the entire
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  process. It is very cool. We are talking about
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  building mobile -friendly tools to handle highly
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  specific daily tasks. You are not buying software.
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  You are speaking it into existence. Which is
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  just wild to think about. Two fascinating, highly
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  practical examples from your notes. The first
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  is a bar recipe finder. It is a fully functional
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  web app designed specifically for bartenders.
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  To use during a chaotic busy shift. Right. Let
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  us unpack the mechanism here. Claude isn't just
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  printing out a text list of ingredients. No,
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  it is actually writing the React code in the
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  background. It is rendering a live user interface
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  right in the artifact window. And is completely
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  mobile -friendly. A bartender can search for
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  a drink without needing exact capitalization.
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  Which is crucial during a rush. When their hands
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  are wet and sticky. When their hands are wet
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  and sticky. The underlying logic is surprisingly
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  robust. It is categorized beautifully, too. The
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  bartender can filter by classic, tropical, refreshing,
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  and non -alcoholic drinks with visual tags. The
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  test recipes loaded into the app are absolute
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  classics. Yeah, we have a mojito, a margarita,
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  a pina colada, and a virgin mojito. But the absolute
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  best feature is scaling the ingredients dynamically.
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  That is the thing that makes it a true application
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  and not just a static document. You can select
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  one, two, four, or six servings with a single
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  tap on the screen. And the math updates instantly
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  for the bartender. If they select four servings,
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  the ounces of rum and lime juice quadruple automatically.
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  It keeps the mixing instructions highly readable
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  while doing all the background calculations instantly.
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  It even knows the semantic difference between
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  a liquid measurement that needs multiplying.
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  Right. And a garnish, like a single mint sprig
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  that might not scale linearly. It is a perfect,
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  isolated utility. It solves one problem elegantly.
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  It does. Now, the second app example is a product
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  feedback board for SaaS teams. This shift scares
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  entirely. From a physical bar to a digital product
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  team. It is a specialized dashboard to track
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  feature requests coming directly from customers.
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  The test data loaded in here is very realistic
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  for a software team. We have FR -001, which is
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  a request for export to PDF. And the team has
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  labeled that as high impact. And then right below
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  it, we have FR -002, which is dark mode. That
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  one is currently labeled as low impact. The dashboard
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  features a dynamic priority scoring system. You
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  can filter status updates easily. Between planned,
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  in progress, or shipped. It even includes a functional
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  CSV export button. So you can pull your data
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  out of the artifact and straight into Excel.
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  The filtering is just seamless. It recalculates
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  the feature request rankings the exact moment
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  you change a scoring weight. Whoa. Imagine scaling
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  to a billion queries. The speed of processing
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  that kind of logic locally is staggering. It
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  is a profound thought, the scale of what this
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  implies for software development. It really is.
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  But I want to push back on the reality of the
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  data handling here. OK, let's hear the skepticism.
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  What actually happens when you hit the Refresh
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  button on that SAS dashboard? Good question.
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  Does the AI hallucinate a fake connection to
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  your company's Slack channel to invent new feature
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  requests? That is a great technical concern.
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  No, it doesn't do that. No, it doesn't do that
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  because of the prompt architecture. Because of
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  the prompt architecture. Right. The prompt rules
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  we discussed earlier strictly forbid that behavior.
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  The app only recalculates the local data you
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  explicitly provided. It doesn't pretend to pull
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  in fake external API data just to make the app
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  look busy. It processes strictly what it already
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  holds in its local state. It won't claim it is
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  reading new Zendesk support tickets unless you
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  actually build a real API connection. You, the
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  human, have to feed that data in. Exactly. Can
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  I share these specific micro tools with my team
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  on the floor even if they don't have their own
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  paid cloud accounts? Yes, you absolutely can.
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  That is the distribution magic here. How does
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  that work? By clicking share in the bottom corner
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  of the artifacts window, you generate a simple
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  public web link. Anyone can open it right on
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  their phone's browser. Yeah, you just text them
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  a link and the app runs in their browser. It
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  is really that simple. Yeah, there's zero friction
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  for the end user. None at all. They don't need
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  to log in. They don't need to download an app
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  from the store. They just tap the link and start
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  making margaritas. Let us synthesize what we
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  have covered today. The core takeaway isn't just
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  about saving a few minutes. No, it is much bigger
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  than that. It is a massive shift in utility.
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  Claude Artifacts shifts AI from being a passive
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  typist to an active software workshop. It is
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  a complete paradigm shift in how we interact
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  with computers entirely. We are moving from asking
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  for information to asking for functional infrastructure.
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  And you don't need to know a single line of JavaScript
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  or React to do it. Yet, you can build deeply
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  functional dashboards, personal time trackers,
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  complex collaborative sandboxes. All in just
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  a few minutes. The golden rule from your notes,
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  the thing to remember when you close this deep
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  dive, is simple. Start with just one idea you
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  can actually use at work tomorrow. Build it,
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  test it, and iterate on it. Don't try to boil
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  the ocean on your very first try. Focus on making
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  one highly useful feature work perfectly. Solve
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  one actual headache. That is how you actually
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  learn to use this stuff. I want to leave you
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  with a final thought to consider on your own.
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  We just saw how easily you can spin up a custom
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  app. A highly specific recipe finder for a bartender.
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  Or a localized feedback dashboard for a product
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  team. You can build these tools in seconds, entirely
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  for free, tailored exactly to your weird internal
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  processes. Yeah. If that is true, what eventually
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  happens to the multi -billion dollar market of
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  generic, one -size -fits -all subscription software?
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  That is a fascinating question. Are we entering
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  a completely new era? An era where software is
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  completely disposable? Generated on the fly for
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  a single shift? And then just deleted at the
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  end of the day? Thank you for taking this deep
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  dive with us. Outro music.