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A vintage car dashboard showing its dials.

7. Picking a Model, and Knowing When It Searched

The names change every few months. The two shapes behind them do not, and telling a live search from a confident recollection is the more useful skill.

Sep 16, 20264 min

Identification badges laid out from a high angle.

Tutorial8 days ago

6. Making It Stop Asking Who You Are

Five separate mechanisms get confused as one. The important split: Custom Instructions are what you told it. Memory is what it inferred, and you approved none of it.

Sep 16, 20264 min

A man searching files in an organized cabinet.

Tutorial8 days ago

5. Giving It Your Files

512MB per file, 2 million tokens per document, and 3 uploads a day on the free plan. The limit that actually bites is not the one you would guess.

Sep 16, 20265 min

Tutorial8 days ago

4. Talking to It Instead of Typing

Two voice features that look the same. One is metered against a rolling five hour allowance and one is free. Most people run out using the wrong one.

Sep 16, 20265 min

An organized workspace with dual monitors.

Tutorial8 days ago

3. Pointing It at What Is on Your Screen

Screenshots send pixels. Work with Apps sends the actual text out of your terminal or editor. The difference matters most exactly when you need it most.

Sep 16, 20264 min

Tutorial8 days ago

2. What You Are Actually Granting It

Twelve permission prompts, not three. And we checked the signature: the app is not sandboxed, which means those prompts are not the boundary they look like.

Sep 16, 20265 min

Tutorial8 days ago

1. Install It and the Shortcut That Makes It Worth Having

The app is 154MB and needs macOS 14. Almost all of its value is one keyboard shortcut, and there are two of them, not the one everybody writes about.

Sep 16, 20265 min