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Practical guides and essays on using AI at work.

How-to guides for Claude and research-backed essays on getting real results from AI, from a team that puts it to work every day. Start with the basics or dig into the strategy.

#team · forwarded
Pasted, unreadworkslop
Read & verifiedowns it
Essay·August 3, 2026·9 min read

Workslop and Meat Proxy: Two Terms to Know Before You Roll Out AI

40% of workers got workslop last month, and each incident cost the person who received it nearly two hours. How to spot the pattern, what it costs, and eight ways to stop it.

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Microsoft 365 · tools
Send email
Calendar & files
Teams writes
Essay·July 26, 2026·6 min read

Claude's Microsoft 365 Connector Can Now Write

30+ new tools let Claude send email, book meetings, rewrite inbox rules, and delete SharePoint files. It's off by default, and switching it on takes two separate approvals.

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effort · opus 5
Low effort (routine)80%
High to max (hard)20%
Essay·July 26, 2026·8 min read

Claude Opus 5: Same Price as Opus 4.8, Nearly 2x the Performance

Anthropic shipped Opus 5 at the old Opus price and roughly doubled its score on hard tests. What changed, what the effort setting does to your bill, and when to use it instead of Sonnet or Fable.

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+ · Record a skill
Recording your screen● rec
weekly-report.skillsaved
Essay·July 22, 2026·6 min read

Teach Claude a Skill by Recording Your Screen

Claude's new Record a skill feature lets you build a reusable skill by demonstration. Do a task once, narrate the why, and Claude turns the recording into a skill it can run again.

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/landing-page
Build pagestaged
Human reviewapprove
Essay·July 17, 2026·6 min read

We Build Landing Pages With a Claude Skill Now

We turned landing-page production into one Claude Code skill. Point it at a brief, get a real, on-brand, staged page in under 10 minutes, and publish only after a human approves.

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agent · vs
ChatGPT Worknew
Claude Coworkour pick
Essay·July 12, 2026·7 min read

What Is ChatGPT Work? OpenAI's New Agent, Explained

OpenAI just built what Claude Cowork has done for six months: hand it an outcome, get finished work back. What ChatGPT Work is, what it can't do, and how it compares to Claude Cowork.

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focus
Focus efficiency60%
Uninterrupted session13 min
Essay·July 12, 2026·7 min read

AI Made Work Faster. It Also Made It Denser. Protecting Focus Time Is a Leadership Job.

Focus efficiency hit a three-year low of 60% and the average uninterrupted work session is 13 minutes. Why AI makes the day denser by default, and how leaders protect focus.

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web · mobile
Cloud workanywhere
Local filesapp open
Essay·July 9, 2026·6 min read

Claude Cowork Just Left the Laptop: Web and Mobile, Explained

Cowork is now on web and mobile. Hand off a task at your desk, close the laptop, and check the result from your phone, with one catch around local files.

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AI layoffs
Regret the cut55%
Already rehiring2 in 3
Essay·July 3, 2026·7 min read

The AI Layoff Boomerang: Why Companies Are Rehiring the People AI Replaced

Ford, Klarna, and IBM show the pattern: two in three companies that cut jobs for AI are already rehiring. What broke, and how to use AI without the boomerang.

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Claude tiers
Sonnetworkhorse
Opusheavy
Fable 5top tier
Essay·July 1, 2026·7 min read

Claude Fable 5 Is Back. Here's What It Actually Is.

Anthropic's most powerful public model returns after a government shutdown. What it is, how Claude's tiers work, and when to use it.

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AI at work
Use AI87%
See real gains13%
Essay·June 30, 2026·6 min read

AI Made Everyone a Manager. Nobody Trained Them.

87% of knowledge workers use AI, but only 13% see real company gains. The gap is management, not the model.

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