The Prompting Curiosity rebrand is officially here and this episode breaks down exactly why the switch happened. I cover the three big reasons for the name change, take a detailed look at OpenAI's behavior that made staying with them feel untenable, and share a clear-eyed take on Anthropic as the alternative.

• The rebrand: ChatGPT Curious to Prompting Curiosity
• Three reasons for the name change
• Why ChatGPT was originally in the name
• OpenAI's bad behavior: specific receipts
• Anthropic's imperfections and brownie points
• "Do the least harm" as a decision framework
• What stays the same going forward
• Recent AI use: Using Claude to help with every part of this rebrand

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• (00:00:05) - Prompting Curiosity: The AI Curious
• (00:00:38) - Puncting Curiosity
• (00:01:02) - A New Website: Mission
• (00:02:50) - ChatGPT: Prompting Curiosity
• (00:04:01) - ChatGPT
• (00:05:04) - OpenAI's Bad Behavior
• (00:06:59) - OpenAI Leads Fight for AI Regulation
• (00:08:23) - OpenAI vs. Anthropic: Which One Is Right?
• (00:12:15) - How I Used AI This Week
• (00:13:52) - The Curious Companion

For the love, please stop using AI to write your copy. We can all tell. In this episode I call out the 8 most obvious AI writing patterns, and provide specific names for those specific styles that are just so characteristically robotic. From em dashes and antithesis structures to hollow opens and metronomic cadence, I break down why these patterns appear, why AI defaults to them, and why the best solution is usually just writing it yourself.

• Why I'm naming these patterns
• Antithesis structure ("It's not X, it's Y")
• Em dashes
• Parallel structure overload
• Metronomic cadence
• The illusion of consideration
• Adjective stacking
• No risky sentences
• Hollow opens and tidy closes
• Why AI writes like this
• What you can do about it
• How I used Claude this week: Learning front-end web development

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• (00:00:00) - ChatGPT Curious
• (00:00:38) - 8 AI Writing Patterns That Are Dead Digits
• (00:02:26) - 8 AI Writing Patterns That Are Dead Agents
• (00:03:02) - 7 Signs That AI Writing Is Stupid
• (00:07:30) - AI's Hollow Openings and Tidy Closes
• (00:09:46) - Why Does AI Write Like This?
• (00:13:51) - The 8 Telltale AI Writing Patterns
• (00:16:14) - How I Used AI to Develop a Website this Week

In this episode I share my personal experience of what it's actually been like to ditch ChatGPT and go all-in on Claude. This episode covers the real differences between the two platforms: what Claude does better, where it falls short, and why the switch probably isn't as big a deal as some people are making it out to be.

• Anthropic refusing government demands
• The Threads chatter about switching and why it's overblown
• Claude's lack of a native image generator
• Claude's usage limits
• Custom GPTs (or the lack thereof)
• Claude's reliability
• Memory differences
• Voice mode
• Personality and sycophancy compared to ChatGPT
• Using Claude to write a Google Apps Script for Acuity scheduling
• Recent Claude use: vibe coding a free Zapier replacement for Acuity

• Listen to Ep. 30: Switching Between ChatGPT, Claude, and Other LLMs without Starting From Scratch
• Listen to Ep. 11: WTF is a Custom GPT?
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• (00:00:00) - ChatGPT Curious
• (00:00:38) - Cloud vs ChatGPT
• (00:03:02) - Claude vs Chat GPT
• (00:05:05) - Claude vs. Cloud: The Differences
• (00:09:56) - Claude vs. Chat: 6 Differences
• (00:14:52) - How I Used Google Apps Script this Week