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Research with AI
Building thinking partners
that broaden
what we look for—
not just faster
at finding what we already know.
4 essays
Research with AI #4: The Prompt Is the Work
Five turns before the prompt was right — and the answers ninety minutes couldn't hold.
"Why writing the prompt is itself the methodology in AI-assisted literature review — answers on the reproducibility stack, governance, coverage, and warrant."
read essay →Research with AI #3: Automating My Research (I Wasn't)
What happened when I built my own agentic AI research team
"Everyone's building agentic AI research teams. I tried it too. Turns out I was doing methodology, not automation."
read essay →Research with AI #2: Agents, Honestly
What every AI agent type trades away, and how to choose yours
"AI agents for knowledge workers: every deployment option trades away safety, accessibility, openness, or sovereignty. A framework for choosing honestly."
read essay →Research with AI #1: The Foreclosure Problem
AI makes you faster at finding what you already know to look for. That's the problem.
"The foreclosure problem: how AI literature review tools optimize for speed over discovery, quietly narrowing what you might have considered — and how to build a Claude Code thinking partner that broadens it instead."
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