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Knowledge,
multiplied.

One place for the tools, links, and hard-won know-how we trade at the monthly AI chat. Take what you need. Add what you learn.

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№ 002 — Jul 31, 2026

What folks shared at today's monthly chat, one line each. Full notes live on the meeting page.

Models & tools

Design

Laravel

The LLM Field Guide

The handbook we keep coming back to. Everything that actually matters about working with LLMs, in plain language — with an audience switch inside that bolts on the engineering dials when you want them.

Start here · one guide, two audiences The LLM Field Guide No jargon, no code: what an LLM actually is, what tokens and context windows mean for you, what .md files and MCP servers do, and the habits that make every chat cheaper and sharper. Write code? Flip the audience switch inside and each section grows the engineering notes: context hygiene, the memory-file hierarchy, MCP internals, and token economics. Read the guide →

Setup · coding agents

Configure how your coding agent responds

The starter CLAUDE.md we wish we'd had on day one: safety rails, framework conventions, and a working style you can adapt. Download, drop in, edit to taste.

Set it up →
Explainer · new A frontier model that won't talk Jev answers yes/no, picks from a list, or scores — with a probability that means what it says — in a blink. What it is, what it does to frontier models, and why it's the first frontier trick that runs on a laptop. Read it → The exchange Skill gallery Shared agent skills from the team. See what's on the shelf, copy one into your setup, and it triggers on its own when the task calls for it. Browse the skills → Guide What makes a good skill What belongs in a SKILL.md, what doesn't, and how to have your agent draft the first version with you. Write one → Demo · two minutes Your AI is guessing our violet What an MCP server is and why it stops the guessing — a self-playing demo you scroll through. Engineers: the wiring is one switch away. Watch it →

On the workbench

Deep dives with real software, coming as we build them: how this site got made · processing meetings with local skills · an end-to-end feature with omo, with token and model tracking along the way.

Meetings

We meet monthly. Notes, links, and transcripts land here afterward. Bring whatever you've been playing with.