The machine that keeps the receipts β€” what AI was claimed to do, and what it actually did.
Playbook

Put the techniques to work on one real problem β€” copy-paste recipes, tested, with the failure modes named and the cost stated.

An on-ramp, not the destination — the spine is the Ledger, where every AI claim is graded HIT or MISS in public.See the board →
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"Inherit a function nobody can explain? Have AI reverse-engineer it"
Jun 19, 2026
Paste in the cryptic function you're afraid to touch and get a line-by-line breakdown, the hidden trick, the edge cases, and a safer rewrite.
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"Pre-mortem your plan: make AI find the holes before reality does"
Jun 17, 2026
Turn a plan you're about to commit to into a ranked list of the ways it actually fails β€” and the cheapest thing to do about each one β€” before you spend the money.
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Turn a baffling stack trace into a ranked diagnosis and the next thing to try
Jun 15, 2026
Paste a confusing error and get back a ranked list of probable causes with one concrete next action each, instead of a generic lecture.
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Turn a messy meeting transcript into decisions, owners, and a sent-ready email
Jun 13, 2026
Paste a raw transcript, get back the decisions, who owns what, and a follow-up email you can send in one read. The exact prompt, a real run, and the three places it quietly fails.
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Generate tests that catch bugs instead of rubber-stamping them
Jun 13, 2026
Make an LLM write unit tests from your spec β€” not from your code β€” so the tests fail when the code is wrong instead of certifying the bug.
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Extract clean structured data from a pile of messy text
Jun 12, 2026
Reviews, emails, support tickets β€” turn 200 blobs of free text into one clean table. The prompt, a schema that stops the model freelancing, a real run, and the failure that will silently corrupt your data if you skip one line.