Engineering & AI Insights
Deep dives into AI agents, connected tools, browser skills, PCF components, and desktop automation.
I Built an AI Skill That Searches Thousands of Career Pages
A friend shared an AI prompt for searching job boards, and it got me thinking about what it misses: the thousands of roles that live only on company career pages. Here's how I turned that idea into a Claude skill that searches those pages, checks each posting is still open, and ranks jobs by how well they fit, plus how to build your own.
ChatGPT Dots: How to Set Up OpenAI's AI Agent
Learn what ChatGPT Dots are, who can use them, and how to set one up. Covers Custom Rules, scheduling, safe permissions, and how dots compare to Grok and Muse.
RTF Prompt Framework: Does It Really Work?
RTF (Role, Task, Format) is a popular prompt framework. Learn how to use it, where it came from, and why one benchmark found a plain prompt scored higher.
Build a Google Maps PCF Control in Power Apps
Learn what the Power Apps Component Framework (PCF) can do, then build a Google Maps control step by step with the Power Platform CLI, Node.js, and VS Code.
Google AI Mode Now Takes Actions in Apps
Google AI Mode can now act inside Canva, YouTube Music, and Instacart. See how its permission model works and what it teaches anyone building AI agents.
Skills in Chrome: Save Your Best AI Prompts
Skills in Gemini in Chrome let you save a prompt once and rerun it on any page or tab with one click. Here is how to create, edit, and manage your own Skills.
Google Opal Tutorial: No-Code AI Mini-Apps
Google Opal lets you build AI mini-apps by describing them in plain English. Follow this guide to remix a template into a marketing video script generator.