The Writer-Researcher’s Guide to Claude Code
The author details how Claude Code, Anthropic’s latest model, powers a full‑stack knowledge‑management system that now occupies 70% of his workday. By layering Voyage‑3 vector embeddings, SQLite keyword search, and a fine‑tuned cross‑encoder reranker, the "Delphi" tool indexes over 45,000 internal documents and retrieves answers in seconds. Autonomous agents scrape paywalled articles, podcasts, and web pages, effectively acting as a dozen research assistants. The result is a terminal‑centric workflow that feels like hiring twenty virtual employees, dramatically reducing friction in content creation and business operations.
The Secret Art of Elicitation
The blog spotlights John Nolan’s out‑of‑print 1999 book *Confidential*, which codifies the art of elicitation—extracting information through casual conversation rather than direct questioning. It recounts WWII interrogator Hanns Scharff’s misdirection technique that coaxed a pilot into revealing classified details, illustrating...