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PhD In Everything, Brand New Hire At Your Business
The mental model that reframes every disappointing AI output.
How it works
- 1The model knows nearly all of human general knowledge without looking it up.
- 2It knows nothing about your workflows, strategy, tribal knowledge, or differentiation.
- 3None of that exists on the open web, so none of it got trained in.
- 4Every bad result is a context failure, not an intelligence failure.
Hear it on the podcast
The $0 Fix That Makes Claude 10x Smarter for Your BusinessListen to the episodeMore from this episode
The Capability OverhangRob's core diagnosis of the current moment.Bot Sitting, The 80/20 TaxWhy off-the-shelf feels great and then betrays you.Handbooks And BackgroundersRob's two-part vocabulary for the context layer, straight from the book.One Version Of The Truth, For WordsRob's transfer of a hard-won BI discipline onto unstructured text.Hybrid ComputingThe rule that keeps AI systems from embarrassing you.
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