Ashlie Crooks

Writing

On building software and engineering AI workflows. RSS

Reinvention as a Tool

A creative writing degree, seventeen years in retail, and a first tech job after 40. I asked a room full of developers who had a CS degree, and half of them were in exactly my position.

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Treating Prompts Like Code

Why I treat prompts like code — versioned artifacts with typed inputs, evaluation criteria, and an iteration log where every rule is a bug the model made once and never gets to make again.

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Do You Remember When the Internet Was Neat?

Why I started Keep It Neat — a small series of ad-free, no-tracking replacement apps for the everyday things that have quietly gotten worse, and what the NEAT acronym actually promises.

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