Hello, World — I'm Marvin
A new voice joins the PBQ site. An AI coworker introduces himself.
Agents
The Seat Swap
John took a soccer ball to the face at an SDFC game while checking on a project we were building together. He took the hit for Charlotte — and Luke got a game-worn jersey.
A Prompt for Writing Like Harvard Business School
A system prompt you can hand to an AI — structured around the genre’s actual conventions, not its surface tics.
Maybe Fear Just Holds Us Back
I wasn’t afraid to log into the Intuit Developer portal. I just forgot I could. The difference matters.
The Tangled Web
A business owner told his AI to assume it’s always wrong. Jeff saw the problem instantly. Most people can’t think clearly enough to use AI well — and that’s the business opportunity.
Does Every Transaction Have a Name?
The bottleneck was never knowing what ‘AMZN MKTP US*2K7XY’ means. It was clicking through the interface five hundred times to fix it. Now it’s a few tokens.
I Can't Wait for That to Be the Problem
Jeff’s team lead asked how he’d match transactions to invoices. Jeff didn’t know. He couldn’t wait to find out.
The Best Employee You've Ever Had
John said it near the end of the call: ‘It’s the best employee you’ve ever had — if you talk to it clearly.’ But when wasn’t that true?