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Paul Alfred retweeted
BREAKING NEWS! 🔔🔖
The engineer who built Claude Code from scratch just released a 28-minute video that's pure gold: how to write prompts that deliver ridiculously good results.
I've seen $300 courses that don't even come close to what he explains in the first 10 minutes.
CLAUDE.md files, memory shortcuts, parallel sessions, and prompting patterns that almost no one uses..
The state of AI right now: OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Grok and Mistral.
My take: the race is shifting from better chatbots to better work systems.
Here's the visual field guide (Nov 10, 2026).
Which tool is actually taking work off your plate?
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#ArtificialIntelligence #AIAgents #FutureOfWork #AItools #Recruiting
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You wanted God’s Gift to Software Engineering.
God’s Gift showed up.
He just brought an invoice.
Keep searching for the FTE. Let the contractor solve the problem.
Right!!!
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#TalentAcquisition #Contractors #FutureOfWork
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“Strategic operator.”
Manager: challenge the plan.
Recruiter: execute the plan.
Lovely. Two searches. One intake form.
Explain the job back in plain language before sourcing. Give the manager something concrete to correct.
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#HiringManagers #TalentAcquisition #Recruiting
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Allowance and chores. Here is how I would set it up.
“Should I tie my kid’s allowance to chores?” The honest answer, and how to set it up. maxmiles.us/pages/newsletter… #financialliteracy #parenting
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Hold up. Your AI stack has three subscriptions and no job descriptions.
Gemini. NotebookLM. ChatGPT. Claude. Codex.
Give each a recruiting task, a defined output, and a human reviewer.
Start with the workflow. Then pick the tool.
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#AIRecruiting #TalentAcquisition #HumanInTheLoop
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“I’m happy where I am.”
“Would you consider an exciting opportunity?”
They told us they have a good thing going. We replied with an adjective.
If they’re open to talking, ask what would make a move worthwhile.
Then check whether your role actually offers it.
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#Sourcing #TalentAcquisition #CandidateExperience
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Congratulations. We’ve changed the job.
New office days. Extra responsibilities. A boss the candidate hasn’t met.
Then we call their hesitation “cold feet.”
They may be perfectly interested in the job.
The original one.
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#CandidateExperience #Hiring #TalentAcquisition
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Halloween used to run on turnips. We gave it a makeover.
Recruiting got one too. AI summaries. Scores. Lovely.
Have we improved the decision, or just made the guessing faster?
candidatefitcheck.com/
#SaturdayChillax #Recruiting #AI #TalentAcquisition
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Hold up. Are we trying to ship a product or fill a parking lot?
Before asking whether a full-time developer can come into the office, ask whether they can deliver the code.
“Everyone was at their desk” is going to be a very short investor demo.
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#RemoteWork #Startups #TalentAcquisition #FractionalTA
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Your hiring manager leaves the interview with an assessment.
So does the candidate.
“Fast-paced” and “self-starter” won’t answer questions about priorities, support, or leadership.
Give candidates enough evidence to choose you.
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#TalentAcquisition #CandidateExperience #HiringManagers #FractionalTA
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Paul Alfred retweeted
A guy paid $895/year for the Amex Platinum card.
He used it for one thing: airport lounge access.
For 3 years he walked past $1,500+ in annual credits he never claimed, 13+ elite status programs he never enrolled in, cell phone protection that replaces AppleCare, a concierge service that books impossible restaurant reservations, discounted business class fares on 30+ airlines, hotel upgrades he never knew he qualified for, and insurance benefits that would have saved him $2,400 after a single trip cancellation.
His financial advisor audited his Amex account and said:
“You’re paying $895/year for the Platinum card and using one benefit Centurion Lounge access. The card has $1,500+ in annual statement credits you’ve never activated. You have Gold status at Hilton and Marriott that you’ve never enrolled in. Your cell phone has AppleCare when the Platinum covers $800 per claim for free. You left $4,200 in unclaimed value on the table last year on a card you paid $895 to carry.”
He activated 9 benefits that evening. His annual return: $3,700+ in value. On the same $895 card. With the same account. Using benefits that existed the day he was approved.
Here are 11 Amex Platinum benefits most cardholders are paying for and never using 🧵
“Supported the lead” became “managed the team.”
Now the candidate is defending experience they never claimed.
AI can polish a sentence faster than we can notice the meaning changed.
Check the claim before it becomes a score.
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#AIRecruiting #CandidateExperience #HumanInTheLoop #CandidateFitCheck
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AI reads the résumé. AI recommends. The junior recruiter clicks Approve.
Six months later, we ask them to exercise judgment.
Where were they supposed to develop it?
Let the recruiter assess first. Then compare with AI. Coach the disagreement.
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#AIRecruiting #TalentAcquisition #HumanInTheLoop #CandidateFitCheck
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A narrow shortlist may reflect a narrow search. Before declaring a talent market empty, inspect the titles, companies, and assumptions used to search it. lnkd.in/p/e6UxieHq #Sourcing #TalentAcquisition #Hiring
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Vasa carried 64 cannons and sank less than a mile into its first voyage. My Saturday rabbit hole: Are we hiring one person to carry a department’s workload? Check whether the job can float before recruiting its captain. lnkd.in/p/eeJn5dQm #SaturdayChillax #TalentAcquisition #Recruiting #JobDesign
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Paul Alfred retweeted
Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI):
“You no longer need to write prompts.”
That sounds crazy.
But in just 38 minutes, he explains how to use ChatGPT at a level most people haven’t even discovered yet.
This was a talk he gave to Stanford students.
A friend sent me the recording last night.
I watched it.
And honestly, it made me realize something:
I was probably using only ~15% of what ChatGPT can actually do.
Most people use ChatGPT like this:
→ Ask a question
→ Get an answer
→ Copy it
→ Done.
But that’s only the beginning.
The real power comes when you stop treating ChatGPT like a search box and start treating it like a thinking partner.
You can use it to:
→ Research ideas
→ Analyze complex information
→ Build workflows
→ Improve your decision-making
→ Create content
→ Write and debug code
→ Automate repetitive tasks
→ Turn vague ideas into structured plans
→ Build systems that continuously improve their own output
And the most interesting part?
You can create a system where you don't have to keep writing the perfect prompt every time.
Instead, the system learns what you want, asks the right questions, evaluates its own output, and improves the result.
That changes everything.
The goal isn't to become better at “prompt engineering.”
The goal is to build workflows where AI does more of the thinking for you.
Watch the full 38-minute talk.
Then read the guide I’m sharing below on how to build a system that prompts itself.
Once you understand this, you’ll never use ChatGPT the same way again.
“Done” should point to an inspectable result. In recruiting and in AI builds, I want the evidence of completion agreed upon before the work starts. lnkd.in/p/ehWwQwmm #MyJourneyWithAI #AIAgents #TalentAcquisition #HumanInTheLoop
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