Archive - The Tool Nerd

Why You Can’t Put a Tiger in a Cage: Leadership Lessons in the Wild

Stop running your organization like a zoo. My observations & lessons from the wild on giving 10x engineers autonomy and managing uncertainty to build…

May 21 • Akhil

10 Best AI Claude Skills to Supercharge Your Workflow (2026)

Discover the top 10 AI Claude skills for 2026. Learn how to supercharge your coding workflow with battle-tested skills for Claude Code, Cursor, and…

May 14 • Akhil

If You’re Using AI to Screen Resumes, You’re Optimizing for the Wrong People

How automated resume screening is filtering out your best candidates. AI resume screening tools optimize for presentation, not capability. Discover the…

May 7 • Akhil and Vasumathi Adwant

April 2026

The Token Test: How the Best Companies Will Hire Engineers from Now On

"Tokenmaxxing" is a Vanity Metric. While Big Tech burns billions on AI tokens, the best companies are hiring for efficiency. Discover why the "Token…

Apr 30 • Akhil

Even OpenAI & Anthropic Buys Software: The Pragmatic Truth Behind the AI 'Build Anything' Hype

Why do leading AI labs still pay for SaaS? When they can build one? An analysis of the internal tech stacks at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Replit reveals a…

Apr 23 • Akhil

Step-by-Step Guide: Build Your Own AI Second Brain with Obsidian and Karpathy’s LLM Wiki Pattern

Build your AI Second Brain using Obsidian and Andrej Karpathy’s LLM Wiki pattern. Learn how to use agentic tools like Claude Code to turn raw notes into…

Apr 16 • Akhil

The Judgment Premium: Why the $1T Opportunity Is in Selling Work, Not Software

Discover why the next trillion-dollar AI shift isn't about better SaaS tools, but "Autopilots" that sell completed work. My take on Sequoia Capital's…

Apr 7 • Akhil

March 2026

The OpenClaw Effect: Why Every AI Company is Racing to Your Desktop

OpenClaw went viral for a reason. Discover how Claude Code, Manus, MiniMax Claw, and NVIDIA NemoClaw are building the next generation of desktop AI…

Mar 31 • Akhil

I Turned My Dad’s PhD into an AI Product (Here’s How I Built The Bridge OS): Lovable+Magic Patterns+Claude+Google Gemini

This is the story of turning a PhD thesis into a real AI product. How I used different AI Tools to build a Strategy Execution OS from scratch : Lovable…

Mar 24 • Akhil

How Claude Built a TDD (Test Driven Development) Skill — Using Skill Creator 2.0

Learn how Claude Code built a complete Test-Driven Development (TDD) skill from a single prompt—writing tests, running evaluations, and packaging a…

Mar 19 • Akhil

Anthropic Skill Creator 2.0 Update: Evals, Benchmarks, and Multi-Agent Testing Explained

Learn how Anthropic’s Skill Creator 2.0 helps developers build reliable AI skills using evals, benchmarking, and multi-agent testing. A practical guide…

Mar 17 • Akhil

Tripo Smart Mesh P1.0 Fixes One of the Messiest Problems in AI 3D Generation — Clean Topology in Seconds.

Discover how Tripo Smart Mesh P1.0 fixes messy AI-generated 3D models by generating clean, low-poly topology in seconds for game engines and production…

Mar 12 • Akhil and Neeraj Gosu

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