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How to Tell Whether Your AI Validator Actually Checks Anything | #101
How to audit whether your AI validator runs real checks or just asks the model to confirm quality - with a drop-in prompt to find out in minutes.
 • John Conneely
Stop Claude Building the Wrong Thing and Make it Ask you 4 Questions First | #100
A native question tool lives inside Claude Code and most people never use it outside plan mode. Here is how to wire it up, and which Claude surface…
 • John Conneely
How I Finally Sorted My Claude Code Memory | #98
How a single Substack post unlocked Claude Code's hidden memory system - and the full setup prompts to replicate it yourself.
 • John Conneely
The Mirror That Breaks Things: Notes from ProductCon London 2026 | #97
My notes from ProductCon London 2026 - eleven talks, one uncomfortable message: AI doesn't create your problems. It just makes them impossible to look…
 • John Conneely
Building My Content Creation Agent Ecosystem: Part 1 | #96
This blog is going to be a little different. Learn how I built an AI content creation system, tested it four ways, and discovered authenticity beats…
 • John Conneely
Understanding Claude Code: Skills vs Commands vs Subagents vs Plugins | #95
Anthropic shipped plugins, marketplaces and skills in the last three weeks. I spent too time rebuilding my Claude Code setup after each release. Here's…
 • John Conneely
How to Become a Product Manager | #94
The best route into Product Management is through adjacent roles. This blog covers what to focus on, how to build product sense, and the mindset you…
 • John Conneely
How to Create a Design System to Add as Knowledge to AI App Builders | #93
Improve your AI app builder designs by feeding a design system into the builder. Here’s the prompt I used to create one from scratch.
 • John Conneely
Ep13 - Beyond the Interface - Rethinking UX from the Inside Out | #92
Explore how UX lives beyond the interface - inside team workflows, internal tools, and overlooked platform systems - in this talk I gave at a Dublin UX…
 • John Conneely
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A Ready-to-Use Continuous Discovery Template for Product Teams | #91
Use my free Continuous Discovery template in Miro designed to help product teams practice continuous discovery - from problem framing to delivery, with…
 • John Conneely
How To Create Your Own Personal AI Mentor (in 5 Minutes) | #90
Quickly create a custom AI mentor tailored to your career goals using this simple prompt technique - no prompt engineering required.
 • John Conneely
Quick Mac Tip: Instantly Paste Snippets into AI Tools (or anywhere else) | #89
Speed up your processes on Mac - learn how to set a custom screenshot shortcut that lets you instantly snip and paste into tools like Slack, ChatGPT or…
 • John Conneely
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