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10 min read

What's new for L&D in Microsoft Copilot in March

☕ 11-minute read Microsoft shipped more than a dozen updates to Microsoft 365 Copilot across February and March 2026. Some of them are useful for L&D teams right now. Most of the coverage you’ll find online is written for IT admins or general knowledge workers...

6 min read

I Gave Claude Code a Brain. It Changed How I Work.

☕ 7-minute read Think about the last time you started a new training project. How much time did you spend re-researching things you already knew? Tracking down that article about spaced repetition you read six months ago? Rebuilding the same context for your A...

14 min read

Everyone Is Writing About FOBO. Nobody Is Designing for It.

☕ 11-minute read Most of us have had that moment. A new technology shows up, or an org restructure gets announced, or we read something about what AI is doing now, and something quietly shifts. It’s not exactly panic. More like a background question that start...

14 min read

We Built AI Speed. We Skipped the Quality Control.

☕ 9-minute read There’s a version of this L&D-and-AI conversation that has been repeating for two years now. You know this version. The version where AI is going to 10x our output, free us from production work, and let instructional designers focus on “higher-...

9 min read

OpenAI's March 2026 Releases for L&D

☕ 8-minute read For Instructional Designers, Facilitators, and Learning Managers OpenAI had a noticeably quieter March than both Google and Anthropic. No platform-wide announcement, no new product category. What shipped was more focused: a meaningful model upg...

14 min read

Google’s March 2026 Releases: What Actually Matters for L&D

☕ 11-minute read Google shipped a lot in March. Gemini 3.1 arrived with new model tiers. Workspace got a deep AI upgrade across Docs, Sheets, and Slides. NotebookLM shipped a feature that I think might be the most underated release of the month for L&D specifi...

12 min read

What's New in Claude (March 2026)

☕ 9-minute read Fourteen releases in one month. That’s what Anthropic shipped in March 2026, and if you blinked through the notifications, you’d be forgiven for missing most of it. We’re in a window right now where the tools we’re building our workflows around...

27 min read

Prompting for L&D

☕ 25-minute read We’ve all been there. We open Claude or Gemini, type something like “write me a learning objective for a compliance course,” and get back something so generic it could apply to any company, any audience, any decade. Then we spend 40 minutes re...

35 min read

L&D Professionals Aren't Prompt Engineers Anymore After February

☕ 24-minute read Right now, about 40% of my daily AI work happens in one place: Claude Cowork. I didn’t expect that. I thought it would be a supplementary tool I’d check occasionally when it was released. That it would be something I’d use when I wasn’t doing...

18 min read

Anthropic gave us better models.

☕ 12-minute read Let me start with the uncomfortable version of something I’ve been thinking about since the drop of Anthropic’s 4.6 models. Most of us who work with AI tools regularly have developed prompting habits that made sense with the models we were usi...

12 min read

Anthropic's Best Month Ever!

☕ 9-minute read I don’t want to oversell this. I’ve been in L&D long enough to know that “game-changing” gets thrown around every time a new AI feature drops, and most of the time the reality is more like “mildly useful update, check back in six months.” So, I...

10 min read

Google AI for L&D: Complete Pricing Breakdown & The Student Hack (Part 2)

☕ 13-minute read Yesterday, we covered the Gemini 3 architecture shift, model selection, NotebookLM, and custom Gems. Today: the practical reality of what everything costs and who gets access to what. I’ll be honest. Google’s pricing has made my head hurt more...

11 min read

I haven't give Google AI enough credit (Part 1)

☕ 15-minute read I haven’t given Google enough credit for what they’ve done over the last 90 days with their generative AI tools. Honestly? I’ve been so focused on what OpenAI and Anthropic are building that I missed what was happening right under my nose. Goo...

13 min read

Learning needs to moving from ChatGPT to Codex

Reading time: 17 minutes. Here’s the uncomfortable truth about L&D work as we finish out 2025: Most of our week is not devoted to learning design. It’s maintenance disguised as momentum. And I don’t think I’m alone in noticing that the web chat interface is wh...

16 min read

Why L&D Professionals Should Stop Avoiding the Command Line

Reading time: 14 minutes Here’s something I didn’t expect to be writing as we close out 2025: the most powerful AI tool for Learning & Development work isn’t the one with the friendliest interface. It’s the one that runs in your terminal. I know. Trust me, I k...

18 min read

L&D Agents to Help You for the Holidays

☕ 16 minute read Let’s be real about something: we spend way too much time on work that feels productive but isn’t actually moving the needle. I’m talking about the hours we burn prepping for SME meetings, cleaning up messy LMS exports, reading through hundred...

11 min read

ChatGPT 5.2 is Here to Help Us Work Differently

Reading time: 14 minutes I spent about 25 minutes last week watching ChatGPT 5.2 process 200 learner feedback responses from our latest classes. I didn’t summarize them. I didn’t pull themes. It analyzed them, cross-referenced satisfaction scores with completi...

22 min read

There Is No One AI Model to Rule Them All

 Reading time: 19 minutes Hey L&D, there’s no one AI model to rule them all. I know that’s not what we wanted to hear. Asking “what model should we get?” costs us time we don’t have in 2025. Frontier models are update constantly, look at the last month of rel...