The Taku Blog
Ideas worth building on.
Stories, product notes, and perspectives on how AI gets discovered, used, remixed, and shared.
September 14, 2026
AI Assistant Capabilities: What They Can and Can't Do
What AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Siri can actually do in 2026, where they still fall short, and the traits that make one trustworthy.
September 14, 2026
Gemini Polaroid Prompt: Copy-Paste Prompts That Work
Copy-paste Gemini Polaroid prompts for the retro photo trend: the basic look, hugging your younger self, family shots, and fixes for faces that drift.
September 14, 2026
How Do I Use AI on My Phone? iPhone and Android
Check whether your phone already has AI built in, how to get it if it doesn't, and five everyday uses on iPhone and Android, plus what stays private.
September 14, 2026
Prompt for Website Creation: 7 Prompts You Can Copy
Copy-paste prompts to create a website with AI: plan pages, generate one HTML file in ChatGPT or Claude, brief v0 or Bolt, then fix mobile, accessibility, SEO.
September 14, 2026
Random Prompt Generator for Writers: Tables and AI
How random writing prompt generators work, a dice table you can roll tonight, a copy-paste AI prompt for adult and fanfic ideas, and how to finish the story.
September 14, 2026
Remove Read AI from Teams: Stop It Joining Meetings
How to remove Read AI from Microsoft Teams: turn off auto-join, kick it out mid-meeting, lock the lobby, block it as an admin, and find out why it comes back.
September 13, 2026
AI Agent Templates: What's in One
An agent template is a role, tools, guardrails, and an output contract. The five parts every usable one has, and why most shared templates don't run.
September 13, 2026
7-Minute Workout App: A Guided Bodyweight Timer
A local app that guides you through ten bodyweight exercises with 30-second work and 10-second rest intervals, plus pause, skip, and restart. How it works.
September 13, 2026
Guitar Practice Studio: Tuner Drills and Ear Training
A local guitar practice app: learn to read tuner feedback with a pitch simulator, set a tempo, and train your ear. No microphone or account. How it works.
September 13, 2026
MoneyPrinter Studio: Short-Form Video Storyboards
A local-first storyboard app adapted from MoneyPrinterTurbo. It plans short videos, not renders them. What it does, how it differs, and how to run it.
September 13, 2026
Reading Glossary Builder: Map Articles to Your Terms
A local-first app that maps an article to your own term list: highlights, context excerpts, coverage, and a learning queue. No AI, no network.
September 13, 2026
Sourdough Companion: Baker's Percentage Calculator
A local baking app that scales a sourdough formula to your target dough weight, gives exact flour, water, starter, and salt, and guides bake day.
September 13, 2026
Can Claude Read PDFs? Limits, Charts, and Scans
Yes. Claude reads each page's text and an image of the page, so charts count. The app's 100-page visual cutoff, the API's 32MB and 600-page limits, scans.
September 13, 2026
Claude Code 1 Million Context: Models and Plans
Which models get the 1M context window in Claude Code as of September 2026, what each plan covers, and the setups that quietly cap you at 200K.
September 13, 2026
Claude Code Auto-Compact: When It Runs, What Stays
How Claude Code auto-compact works: what the context-left warning means, how to move or disable the threshold, and what survives a compaction.
September 13, 2026
Claude Code Revert: Undo Changes With /rewind
How to revert changes in Claude Code: /rewind and its /undo alias, what each restore option does, and the edits checkpoints can't roll back.
September 13, 2026
Claude Haiku vs Sonnet: Which One to Actually Use
Haiku 4.5 is the fastest Claude model at half Sonnet 5's token price. Sonnet 5 adds a 1M window and effort control. Where each one runs out.
September 13, 2026
Claude as an SEO Tool: What It Does and Doesn't
Anthropic doesn't sell an SEO product. What Claude does well for SEO work, the four jobs it can't do, and what Google says about AI content.
September 13, 2026
How to Get Claude Free API Access: What's Real
New Claude API accounts get a small amount of free credits, then it's prepaid. Why Pro doesn't include API access, and what to know about Janitor AI keys.
September 13, 2026
OpenManus: The Open-Source Manus, Honestly Assessed
OpenManus is an MIT-licensed open-source agent built after Manus launched invite-only. What it is, what running it involves, and who it's actually for.
September 13, 2026
AFFiNE Workspace Blueprint: Markdown Project Plans
A skill that turns a project, topic, event, or goal into an offline Markdown workspace with linked pages, fields, and a Mermaid map. Not the AFFiNE app.
September 13, 2026
Agency Agent Router: One Lead, Two Specialists
A Taku skill adapted from The Agency: it picks one lead AI specialist and up to two supporting ones, then merges their work into one decision.
September 13, 2026
AGENTS.md Generator: Context Files for Coding Agents
Microsoft's AGENTS.md skill writes agent context files for each repo folder, with real build commands and boundaries, and never overwrites existing ones.
September 13, 2026
Archify: Architecture Diagrams Your Agent Can Verify
Archify has your AI agent draw architecture, workflow, sequence, data-flow, and lifecycle diagrams as checked, interactive HTML. How it works.
