MARCH 17, 2026
- PromptCraft: PROMPTS for Your Messy Notes, Startup Ideas, and to Improve Your Prompts
- THE HEADLINES: Meta planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount; Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams, and visualizations; Google scraps AI search feature that crowdsourced amateur medical advice; New study raises concerns about AI chatbots fueling delusional thinking
- Tool Spotlight: Lindy Handles Inbox, Other Tasks Without Being Prompted
Well, I lied to you guys, and I'm sorry.
On Monday, I stumbled upon some scoring problems with the new pipeline that made me decide to push it back a few days, or a week at the most. In Chat's words, the pipeline is working, but my scoring logic was "removing stories like a bouncer with poor judgment 😂.
Anyhow, rather than make you guys suffer through a cleaner-yet-error-prone layout, I'll give it a little bit longer to make sure the new logic is working as it should be.
In the meantime, this edition has 3 great new prompts, the weekend's/Monday's news, and an AI assistant that does certain tasks without the constant need for you to be there holding its hand.
Enjoy!
PROMPTS for Your Messy Notes, Startup Ideas, and to Improve Your Prompts
- Second Brain Builder for Messy Notes: A two-pass prompt that turns raw notes into clusters, Projects / Areas / Resources / Archive zones, synthesis lines, metadata tags, retrieval questions, and a weekly review loop. Useful for anyone drowning in scraps, bookmarks, and half-finished ideas who needs a maintainable personal knowledge system.
- Startup Idea Prompt for Fast Validation: This founder-focused evaluator checks painkiller vs. vitamin demand, market reality, alternatives, customer acquisition cost, hidden assumptions, and kill criteria before you build. Strong for early-stage idea triage because it forces a plain verdict instead of vague encouragement.
- Meta Prompt Coach for Prompt Reviews: A reusable meta-prompt that scores a prompt on clarity, completeness, specificity, and misinterpretation risk, then suggests concrete fixes and an optimized rewrite. Worth saving when a prompt feels close but keeps producing generic, off-target, or inconsistent output.
HIGHLIGHTS: Meta planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount; Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams, and visualizations; Google scraps AI search feature that crowdsourced amateur medical advice; New study raises concerns about AI chatbots fueling delusional thinking
- Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams, and visualizations
- ‘100 Video Calls Per Day’: Models Are Applying to Be the Face of AI Scams
- Scientists discover AI can make humans more creative
- Trump accuses Iran of using AI to spread disinformation
- Google scraps AI search feature that crowdsourced amateur medical advice
- Nebius signs AI infrastructure deals with Meta worth up to $27 billion over 5 years
- How to use AI to make your March Madness bracket
- 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6
- OpenAI’s adult mode will reportedly be smutty, not pornographic
- Early look at upcoming vibe design tool from Google
- US Job Market Visualizer
- ByteDance suspends launch of video AI model after copyright disputes, The Information reports
- Uber co-founder Kalanick launches Atoms in specialized robotics push
- BlackRock CEO Fink predicts AI ‘bankruptcies’
- LinkedIn is becoming a top source for AI chatbots
- Upwork’s CEO on the AI agents that try to hire human workers
- Adobe’s longtime CEO to exit role amid AI disruption, shares fall
- Telus Digital confirms breach after hacker claims 1 petabyte data theft
- AI Czar David Sacks wants Trump to ‘get out’ of Iran
- Subcontractors See Intimate Meta AI Visual Queries From Smart Glasses
- Reverse-engineering Claude’s generative UI - then building it for the terminal
- Institutional AI vs Individual AI
- Anthropic invests $100 million into the Claude Partner Network
- Getting the most out of Nano-Banana 2: tips & prompt guide
- Groundsource: Turning news reports into data with Gemini
- NEW: The Alliance for Secure AI Launches Six-Figure JobLoss.AI Awareness Campaign to Track AI-Related Job Losses
- AI money is already influencing the midterms. And more is coming.
- AI Used to Promote Non-Existent Evacuation Flights From the Middle East
- Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud
- S&P Global Enhances Capital IQ Pro with Expanded Fixed Income, Biopharma, and Private Markets Data Content and AI Capabilities
- AI toys for young children must be more tightly regulated, say researchers
- Adobe sued for trademark infringement over ‘Foundry’ AI tool
- Can AI help predict which heart-failure patients will worsen within a year?
- Musk ousts more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters, FT reports
- Allen Institute for AI CEO Ali Farhadi steps down as nonprofit navigates shifting AI landscape
- AI may be giving teens bad nutrition advice
- ‘RAMmageddon’ hits labs: AI-driven memory shortage is impacting science
- Grammarly removes AI Expert Review feature mimicking writers after backlash
- US Commerce Department withdraws planned rule on AI chip exports
- Meta planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount
- Google’s AI Search Results Love to Refer You Back to Google
- New study raises concerns about AI chatbots fueling delusional thinking
- Musk says Tesla’s mega AI chip fab project to launch in a few days
- Relying on AI at work reduces self-efficacy, ownership, and meaning, while active collaboration mitigates the effects
- Hacked data shines light on homeland security’s AI surveillance ambitions
- AI companies want to use improv actors to train AI on human emotion
- Lawyer behind AI psychosis cases warns of mass casualty risks
- Google app starts rolling out quick access to AI Mode history
Lindy Handles Inbox, Other Tasks Without Being Prompted
Lindy Assistant aims to feel like a real assistant, not a chat window: it triages your inbox, drafts replies in your voice, manages scheduling, preps you before meetings, captures notes, and helps with follow-ups.
A standout detail is how “close” it is to your day.
Lindy emphasizes that you can simply text it (including via iMessage) to get things moving, and it becomes more helpful as it learns your preferences and priorities. If your workday is a constant loop of email + calendar overhead, Lindy is designed to buy back time by proactively handling the admin layer.
Learn More: Lindy Assistant
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