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#669 Neil: Claude Automation Made Simple With Your Own Company Brain · AI Fire Daily

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  If an AI knows nothing about your business, it
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  is just going to generate the same generic content
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  everyone else is posting. Congratulations. You
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  have just automated being boring. That is the
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  trap, really. I mean, you know exactly what I
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  am talking about. You log into LinkedIn and you
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  instantly spot the AI posts. Oh, yeah. The rocket
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  emojis. Exactly. The rocket emojis, the same
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  pseudo profound corporate buzzwords. Today's
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  deep dive is about breaking out of that trap.
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  We are exploring a framework called Claude Automation.
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  We want to see how combining an Atlas folder,
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  Claude skills, and a tool called Bloatado MCP
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  allows you to build a deeply customized reusable
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  content engine. I am so energized by this material,
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  honestly. It is pretty compelling. The core promise
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  here really shifts the paradigm of our daily
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  work. We're talking about doing the heavy, tedious
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  lifting of context setup exactly once. Just one
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  time. Right. It frees you up to actually focus
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  on content quality instead of, you know, wrestling
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  with a blank chat window all day. We know the
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  fundamental problem is boring, generic output.
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  The AI simply does not know who you are. Right.
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  So how do we physically ground the AI in reality?
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  How do we give it roots? It really comes down
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  to fixing the architecture of how we communicate
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  with these models. Okay. Usually people just
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  open a web browser, they start a new chat, they
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  type a quick maybe three -sentence prompt asking
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  for a post about their business. Yeah, I do that
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  all the time. We all do. But the AI is starting
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  from absolute zero every single time. It has
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  zero historical context. So it just falls back
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  on its training data. Exactly. It guesses based
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  on the statistical average of the entire internet.
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  Yes. And the statistical average of the internet
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  is inherently generic. Very generic. So to stop
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  explaining your business from scratch, you need
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  to build two distinct components. The first one
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  is an Atlas folder. Let us define that. What
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  exactly is an Atlas folder in this context? A
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  local folder acting as an AI's memory bank for
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  your brand. So it physically lives right there
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  on my hard drive. Exactly. Inside this folder,
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  you store markdown files containing your core
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  business information. OK. You store customer
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  pain points. You document your specific brand
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  voice. You even keep past successful content
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  examples in there. OK, so it is the foundational
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  knowledge. Then what is the second component?
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  The second component is Claude skills. Which
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  are what exactly? Reusable instructions teaching
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  the AI how to handle specific daily tasks. Let
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  me think about that. It is like stacking Lego
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  blocks of data. I like that. The Atlas folder
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  is the pile of raw bricks and the Claude skill
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  is the step -by -step instruction manual for
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  what to build today. That is a brilliant way
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  to visualize it. You have the raw material and
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  you have the blueprint. Right. and the technological
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  glue holding those Lego blocks together is BloTado
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  MCP. MCP. That stands for Model Context Protocol,
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  right? Yes. BloTado MCP is a secure bridge letting
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  cloud AI read local files. Right, on your computer.
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  Exactly. Without it, you would have to manually
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  copy and paste all those markdown files into
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  the browser every single day. Which defeats the
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  purpose. Exactly. The protocol allows the AI
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  to securely peek into that Atlas folder, read
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  the context, and execute the skill, all without
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  you lifting a finger. Okay, wait. I have a probing
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  question here. Sure. Why do we need to physically
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  separate the memory into a folder and the instructions
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  into skills? I mean, why not just write one massive
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  master prompt every single time and keep it all
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  in one place? Because massive prompts create
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  severe attention degradation for the AI. What
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  do you mean? Large language models have a context
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  window, right? If you jam your entire company
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  history, your audience personas, and a highly
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  specific writing task into one giant block of
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  text... It gets overwhelmed by the noise. Precisely.
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  It dilutes the focus. The AI might write in your
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  brand voice, but completely forget the specific
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  instructions you gave it for that day's task.
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  Right. Keeping the broad context in a local file
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  structure separate from the immediate action
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  instructions ensures the AI applies your rules
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  rigorously. So separating memory from instructions
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  keeps the AI focused and highly accurate. Exactly.
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  It fundamentally changes the reliability of the
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  output. That brings up an interesting challenge,
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  though. We have this local memory bank, but how
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  do we actually know the AI read and understood
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  it before we put it to work? You cannot just
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  assume it understands. You have to force it to
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  prove its comprehension. Okay. In the source
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  material, there's a fantastic case study that
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  illustrates this perfectly. It follows a fictional
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  B2B marketing agency called Northstar Studio.
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  Let us use Northstar as our sandbox. How do they
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  verify the AI's memory? First, you open the CLAW
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  desktop application. Okay. You navigate to the
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  developer settings, click on code, then local,
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  and you physically point the application to your
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  Northstar Atlas folder on your hard drive. So
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  you establish the secure MCP connection. Right.
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  Then you run an onboarding test. An onboarding
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  test? Yeah. You open a chat, and ask Claude to
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  adopt a persona. You tell it, act as a senior
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  B2B content strategist. And then you instruct
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  it to read a specific core file called Claude
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  .md, along with the company profile, audience
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  personas, and a few sample posts stored in that
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  local folder. I have to admit something here.
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  I still wrestle with prompt drift myself. Oh,
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  absolutely. It is so easy for the AI to completely
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  forget your intended style halfway through a
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  project. It happens to everyone. The model naturally
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  drifts back toward its baseline training. Yeah.
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  That is exactly why this onboarding verification
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  is so critical. You are not asking it to write
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  a post yet. You're asking it to generate a brand
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  context report. A report about its own understanding.
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  Yes. It outputs a document outlining exactly
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  what it thinks Northstar Studio offers. It details
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  the customer problems it found in your files.
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  Right. It lists your editorial rules and synthesizes
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  your exact writing style. If it hallucinates
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  here, you know your local files are poorly written.
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  What stands out to me in the sources is the specific
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  instruction given to the AI during this test.
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  It is explicitly told to flag missing information.
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  Yes, that is the critical safety valve. Right.
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  Claude is instructed to flag missing or conflicting
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  information across all those local files. It
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  is explicitly told not to make assumptions to
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  fill in the blanks. OK, but what happens if the
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  source files in that Atlas folder accidentally
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  contradict each other? What do you mean? Say
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  the company profile says the brand tone is highly
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  formal and academic, but the sample posts are
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  super casual and full of slang. In a normal web
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  chat, the AI would just silently guess which
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  one you want. That usually results in a weird
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  disjointed tone. Yeah. But here, Claude will
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  actually highlight that contradiction in the
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  report. It will halt the setup and say, hey,
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  I found conflicting rules regarding brand voice
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  in these two files. You need to clarify this
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  before we proceed. It flags the conflicts instead
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  of blindly guessing, saving you from off -brand
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  mistakes. That is the beauty of the system. You
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  go into your markdown files, you fix the contradiction,
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  and suddenly your local memory bank is bulletproof.
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  OK, I love that. The AI deeply understands the
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  brand. We've verified its memory. Now we need
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  to give it a specific job that follows strict
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  rules. Right. How do we build these rules of
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  engagement? This is where we actually author
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  a Claude skill. For our Northstar Studio example,
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  we are creating a tool called the LinkedIn post
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  writer skill. How does that file actually function?
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  You open a new text file. You define the required
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  inputs first. You explicitly tell the AI that
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  whenever this skill is triggered, it will always
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  receive a topic, a specific target audience,
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  and a desired content goal. So it knows what
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  variables to expect from the user. Right. Then
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  you establish the rigid guardrails. The source
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  has mentioned that the brand guidelines in the
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  Atlas folder must be the absolute source of truth.
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  Unconditionally. OK. The skill instructs the
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  AI to write an engaging opening, but it must
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  be based on a documented reader problem found
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  in the local persona files. And here's a crucial
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  detail from the source material. The skill states
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  it must never invent statistics. Oh, wow. It
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  must never invent customer stories. If essential
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  information is missing from the prompt, it must
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  stop and ask the human for clarification. OK.
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  Let us unpack this. If we give the model such
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  a rigid, strict checklist, aren't we suffocating
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  the AI's natural creativity? It sounds counterintuitive,
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  I know. But those harsh constraints actually
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  unlock useful creativity by preventing hallucinations.
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  How so? When a large language model has too much
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  unrestricted freedom, its architecture naturally
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  tries to please the user by inventing things
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  that sound highly plausible. Wait, why do we
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  have to explicitly tell an advanced AI not to
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  invent fake statistics? It feels like a massive
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  neural network should just know not to lie. Well,
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  we have to remember what these models actually
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  are. They are not fact retrieval databases. Right.
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  They are probabilistic engines designed to predict
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  the next most likely word in a sequence. Okay.
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  If the AI lacks a specific grounding data point
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  in its working memory, its underlying architecture
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  leans heavily toward generating a plausible,
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  confident -sounding sentence structure. So it
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  just fabricates a number to seamlessly complete
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  the pattern. Precisely. It doesn't know it's
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  lying. It just knows that sentences about marketing
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  growth usually contain a percentage, so it generates
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  one. Without explicit boundaries, the AI prioritizes
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  sounding confident over being factually correct.
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  Exactly. You have to mathematically bind it to
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  the facts residing in your workspace. Makes sense.
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  Once you define these strict behavioral rules,
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  you save the file. This skill usually lives in
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  a specific hidden folder path, something like
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  .clawd slash skills slash linkedin post writer.
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  You save it using a standardized skill dot md
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  file structure. Right. And then the final step
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  of the setup. You update the reference in your
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  main claw dot md file. OK. You just add a line
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  pointing to the new skill. Now the AI always
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  knows exactly where to find its instruction manual.
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  All right. We have our Atlas folder acting as
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  the foundational memory bank. We have our new
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  Claude skill acting as the daily instruction
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  manual. A strict rule book is great in theory.
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  But what happens when we actually hit go? We
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  are going to find out right after this. Sponsor
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  break placeholder. And we are back. So before
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  the break, we built the ultimate AI rule book.
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  We did. But let us be honest, we have all spent
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  an hour generating AI text, tweaking the prompt,
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  tweaking it again. And by the end, you realize
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  you spent more time managing the AI than it would
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  have taken to just write the thing yourself.
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  Oh, absolutely. The manual editing phase is where
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  most automation dreams die. Yes. So let us see
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  how this system handles it. In the Cloud desktop
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  app, you activate the skill simply by typing
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  a slash command, slash LinkedIn -postwriter.
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  The test scenario in our sources targets B2B
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  founders, right? Specifically, founders who are
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  operating with very small marketing teams. Right,
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  the user provides the variables. The topic is
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  turning customer questions into LinkedIn content.
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  Okay. The goal is simply to help those busy founders
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  find useful daily post ideas. And we also have
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  those strict mechanical constraints for the stress
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  test. The final post must be between 120 and
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  180 words and absolutely no generic high level
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  advice. So Claude goes to work. Behind the scenes,
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  the MCP reads the local context. It processes
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  the skill constraints and it outputs a markdown
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  file called linkedin -draft .md. According to
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  the case study, the result was exactly 143 words.
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  It perfectly nailed the length constraint. It
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  did. But here is the fascinating twist. Claude
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  does not just hand you the draft and walk away.
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  What does it do? It also outputs a completely
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  separate document. A quality review of its own
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  work. A self -generated quality review. Yes.
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  As part of the skill instructions, it checks
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  its new draft against your local editorial rules.
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  Wow. In this specific test, the AI caught an
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  unsupported claim it had made about content ROI.
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  It also noticed that its sentence structure was
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  a little too similar to one of the existing sample
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  posts stored in the memory bank. Whoa. Imagine
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  scaling to a billion queries and the AI is actively
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  critiquing its own work before showing you. It
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  is a massive paradigm shift. It shifts the AI
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  from being a blind text generator to being a
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  critical self -aware editor. But I have to push
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  back here. Why does it generate a separate quality
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  review document instead of just auto -fixing
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  the draft on the first try. Like why not only
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  show me the perfect version? Because transparency
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  is the foundation of trust in automation. If
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  the system just silently fixed itself in the
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  background, you would never know where its natural
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  tendencies or biases lie. You would be totally
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  blind to the process. Exactly. Seeing the separate
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  critique lets you understand the AI's internal
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  reasoning. It actually highlights the gaps in
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  your original instructions. Oh, I see. If it
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  constantly has to correct its own tone, you know
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  your brand voice file needs rewriting. Seeing
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  the critique builds trust and helps you spot
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  recurring issues in your instructions. Right.
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  It brings you into the loop as a senior overseer,
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  not just a passive consumer of generated text.
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  Which perfectly sets up our final question. Spotting
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  mistakes in a critique document is incredibly
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  helpful, but manually fixing those mistakes in
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  the draft defeats the whole purpose of saving
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  time. Right. How do we close the loop? We use
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  an agentic feedback loop to improve the workflow
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  itself. You simply instruct Claude to review
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  its own draft against the weaknesses it just
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  found in the guidelines. You just tell it to
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  implement its own fixes. Yes. Fix the unsupported
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  claims. Fix the repetitive wording. So Claude
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  rewrites the post. It keeps it strictly within
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  that 120 to 180 word limit. And it saves it as
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  a new file. And it provides a brief explanation
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  of what changed and why it made those choices.
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  It does. But here is the absolute highest level
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  feature of this entire framework. This is where
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  it gets truly advanced. OK. Claude actually recommends
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  specific updates to your skill .md file based
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  on the errors it made. Wait, it recommends changes
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  to its own permanent rules. Yes. It realizes,
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  hey, I messed up the tone here because the instruction
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  wasn't clear. So it suggests a specific rule
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  change for the skill file to prevent that exact
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  issue from happening in all future drafts. It
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  is like an employee tweaking their own operating
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  manual so they do not make the same mistake next
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  week. It is exactly like that. The system inherently
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  gets smarter and more aligned with your preferences
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  every single time you use it. But is it safe
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  to let the AI rewrite its own core instruction
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  manual? What if it hallucinates a terrible rule
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  and breaks the skill entirely? That is exactly
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  why the architecture requires a human in the
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  loop. The AI is explicitly restricted from modifying
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  the source files directly. Ah, okay. It only
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  generates recommendations in the chat for you
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  to review. You have to manually open the file
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  and update the actual rule. It only suggests
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  the update. You still hold the keys for final
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  approval. Exactly. You maintain total, uncompromised
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  control over the core system architecture. So
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  if we pull back and look at the whole picture
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  we have covered today, what is the big takeaway
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  here? The big idea is that true AI automation
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  isn't about generating infinite content blindly.
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  Spamming the internet is easy. It is also entirely
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  useless. Very true. Real value comes from building
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  a resilient, reusable system. Combining Atlas
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  folders, skills, and MCP creates an AI that profoundly
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  understands the nuances of your business. Right.
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  It handles the tedious contextual setup. It catches
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  its own logical mistakes. Most importantly, it
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  frees you up to just focus on the final human
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  polish. You stop managing the messy generation
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  process and you start managing the system itself.
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  Exactly. You elevate your role. You become the
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  editor -in -chief, not the junior copywriter
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  grinding out first drafts. Think about this for
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  a second. If you encode your entire brand voice,
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  your target audience pain points, and your strict
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  editorial rules into an Atlas folder to train
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  an AI, Could you not eventually use that exact
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  same second brain to train your next human higher?
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  That is a fascinating way to look at it. The
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  rigorous documentation you build to constrain
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  the machine ultimately becomes the perfect onboarding
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  manual for a real person. It really blurs the
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  line between managing software architecture and
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  managing a creative team. Thank you for joining
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  us on this Deep Dive. We hope it gave you some
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  tools to stop being boring.