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School, work honesty, and citations
Diego's lab report listed four papers, and two DOIs 404'd forty minutes before midnight because the model invented them. School homework, take-home exams, workplace drafts, and published analysis each have different honesty lines, so disclose the tool, open every DOI, and never paste a source you did not check.
Loops, retries, and runaway tasks
Ben’s agent retried a failed vendor download 23 times and filled Downloads with 3.9 GB of partial zips while he made coffee.…
Where did my file go, across tools
Hannah is sure she attached Q3_forecast.xlsx (2.4 MB) yesterday, but today’s chat has no paperclip and the model still quotes last quarter’s…
Grok Imagine: text to image from zero
Open grok.com/imagine and write a brief that names the subject, setting, style, and any on-image text before you hit generate. Then inspect…
Research, planning, and writing with Gemini
Research and writing with Gemini works when you force a pipeline: questions, trusted sources, outline, draft with placeholders, then verify. Part 2…
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