Neurologist & Epileptologist • Post-doc in Epilepsy • DM in Neurology • MD Medicine • NIMHANS & Amrita Alumnus • Long position on Video-EEG for better outcomes
Lovely tips! Thank you!
One particularly useful workaround I use is:
Once a skill is created and we have used it across many tasks in a chat, I ask “What all lessons did you learn in this chat and from above tasks?” — I make sure to ask it in plan mode.
And then once it lists those lessons out, I ask it to incorporate them into the skill (again in a plan mode).
It shoots the usefulness of the skill through the roof.
Charles Darwin in The Origin of Species,
“On the view of each organism with all its separate parts having been specially created, how utterly inexplicable is it that organs bearing the plain stamp of inutility... should so frequently occur?”
What did he mean?
Bad design is evidence of history.
If living things were designed cleanly from scratch, why are bodies full of leftovers, detours, and structures that make only partial sense?
That is what he meant by organs bearing the "plain stamp of inutility." He was talking about parts that look useless, barely useful, or just odd. Those are difficult to explain if every organism was separately made as a finished product. They make much more sense if bodies carry their history forward.
Medicine shows this everywhere.
The body is not built like a new machine. It is built more like an old city. Roads curve because older roads were already there. New buildings sit on older foundations. Repairs get layered over earlier repairs. Very little is redesigned from the ground up.
That is why anatomy so often looks strange.
The appendix. Wisdom teeth. The recurrent laryngeal nerve taking that absurd detour. These do not look like first-pass perfection. Evolution does not wipe the board clean and start again. It keeps modifying what is already there.
That was Darwin’s point.
Biology is a record.
Once you start looking at biology that way, a lot becomes easier to understand. The body stops looking like something engineered in one shot. It starts looking like accumulated history: patched, adapted, and carried forward. That is much closer to what medicine actually shows us.
An adversarial refinement protocol for ideas.
5 AI agents attack your concept.
If all 3 attackers agree on a fatal flaw → it's KILLED. No forced positivity.
The protocol was refined by running it on itself.
https://t.co/fVavGldRRa
What remains is the winner!
When Claude gives you a plan full of slop, just tell it to strawman itself.
This has a 100% hit rate for me. And if you ask for a followup plan you usually get something good.
Self-roasting is AGI