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Video Editing With Claude: 6 Effects Without After Effects
video editing with Claude
10 min readThe AI University

Video Editing With Claude: 6 Effects Without After Effects

Video editing with Claude now covers the grade, the counter and the motion. Here are six effects and the one prompt line that makes them land.

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Reverse Engineer Anything: Claude Can Now Rebuild Any App
Reverse Engineer Anything
11 min readThe AI University

Reverse Engineer Anything: Claude Can Now Rebuild Any App

Reverse Engineer Anything lets Claude look inside apps it has no code for. Here's how it works, who should skip it, and the software moat a copy can't take.

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AI Agent Skills: 9 Free Ones and the Step Most Skip
AI agent skills
12 min readThe AI University

AI Agent Skills: 9 Free Ones and the Step Most Skip

AI agent skills install from one pasted link — that part is easy. The step that makes them genuinely useful is the one almost nobody runs.

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Jev Decision Model: The AI That Can't Write, Only Decides
Jev decision model
7 min readThe AI University

Jev Decision Model: The AI That Can't Write, Only Decides

The Jev decision model can't write a word. Vercel and LangChain added it anyway. Why a "System One" classifier is 200x faster than the LLM in your agent.

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Open Source SaaS Alternatives: 5 Repos Worth Selling
open source SaaS alternatives
10 min readThe AI University

Open Source SaaS Alternatives: 5 Repos Worth Selling

Semrush charges $250. This costs ten.

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Claude AI Side Hustles: 5 That Fit Around a Full-Time Job
Claude AI side hustles
9 min readThe AI University

Claude AI Side Hustles: 5 That Fit Around a Full-Time Job

Claude AI side hustles work because your job already gave you the niche. Five that fit around full-time work, and the one thing that decides all five.

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Agentic AI System Design: 9 Layers That Break in Production
agentic AI system design
9 min readThe AI University

Agentic AI System Design: 9 Layers That Break in Production

Agentic AI system design is backend engineering, not prompting. The nine layers that decide whether your agent survives production.

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Model Context Protocol: What It Is and Why It Matters
Model Context Protocol
7 min readThe AI University

Model Context Protocol: What It Is and Why It Matters

Model Context Protocol exists because your AI agent still cannot call an API. Here is the exact division of labor between the model, the client, and the server.

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Agent Harnessing: Why AI Agents Fail on Long Tasks
agent harnessing
9 min readThe AI University

Agent Harnessing: Why AI Agents Fail on Long Tasks

Agent harnessing is why long AI tasks finally finish. The fix isn't a bigger context window — it's a loop that never needs to remember.

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