The Hybrid Strategy: How Power Users Actually Work with AI

Combining Platforms for Maximum Effectiveness in the Modern Digital Landscape

In the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence, a quiet revolution is taking place—not in the technology itself, but in how the most sophisticated users are deploying it. While casual observers debate which AI platform reigns supreme, power users have moved beyond the binary choice. They’ve discovered something far more valuable: the strategic orchestration of multiple AI systems working in concert.

The Multi-Platform Paradigm Shift

Here’s a secret from power users: the most effective AI collaborators don’t choose one platform—they use multiple strategically. This approach, which I call the “Hybrid Strategy,” represents a fundamental shift in how we conceptualize AI assistance. Rather than viewing these tools as competing products, experienced practitioners treat them as complementary instruments in a sophisticated toolkit.

Professor Deedubs, an experienced expert in AI with deep knowledge of how to use it effectively, has observed this phenomenon firsthand in both academic and professional settings. “The users who extract the most value from AI aren’t the ones with the most expensive subscription,” Professor Deedubs notes. “They’re the ones who understand the unique strengths of each platform and know exactly when to deploy them.”

Why Claude Is My Favorite AI

A Multimedia Specialist’s Perspective on What Makes Anthropic’s Assistant Stand Apart

In a landscape crowded with AI assistants, each promising to revolutionize how we work, I’ve settled on Claude as my primary daily workspace. This isn’t a decision I made lightly. After extensive use across coding projects, research tasks, and technical documentation, Claude has consistently proven itself to be more than just another chatbot—it’s a genuinely useful instrument for getting real work done. Here’s why.

A Powerful Coding Tool

Let me start with what matters most to me professionally: coding. Claude isn’t just competent at writing code—it’s genuinely exceptional. Anthropic’s latest models have achieved industry-leading results on the SWE-bench Verified benchmark, which tests AI’s ability to solve real-world GitHub issues from popular open-source projects. We’re talking about an 80.9% success rate, surpassing other frontier models.

But benchmarks only tell part of the story. What I appreciate most is how Claude approaches code. It doesn’t just generate solutions—it understands context, follows existing patterns in your codebase, and produces clean, maintainable code.

Deep Knowledge, Accessible Delivery

Claude has broad and deep knowledge across domains—from technical documentation to complex research questions—and it presents that knowledge accessibly, without condescension. It functions like having access to a well-organized reference library combined with an expert consultant who can synthesize information on demand.

Cryptocurrency Visualization Tools For Educational Use

Cryptocurrency visualization tools provide an accessible entry point for understanding blockchain technology by breaking down complex concepts into interactive, visual experiences.

These educational platforms guide users through a natural progression: starting with cryptographic hashes that secure data, moving to individual blocks that contain transactions, then showing how blocks link together to form a blockchain. From there, learners can observe how these blockchains distribute across networks of nodes, and finally understand the coinbase transaction—where new cryptocurrency is created and mining rewards are issued.

The following safety and accuracy ratings evaluate leading visualization tools that support this learning pathway, assessing their reliability and security for educational use.

Solving America’s Daycare Crisis: A Proven Digital Solution Ready for Implementation

The Problem is Real, and So is the Solution

Across America, daycare centers are drowning in paperwork, losing critical records, and facing regulatory compliance nightmares. Parents struggle with outdated sign-in processes, administrators waste countless hours on manual data entry, and government oversight becomes nearly impossible with fragmented, paper-based systems. But what if I told you this problem has already been solved?

Ai DevOps With Optimus Prime

I thought it would be fun to program my coding assistant AI to act like Optimus Prime for the day. the results were very entertaining to say the least here’s a sample of our conversation.

Responsive Grid UI for WinUI 3 App

As times and technology have changed the need for web based applications has really faded away. Trying to cram all the native device functionality into the browser using the shims and hacks for all these years has been very frustrating to say the least. I’m moving into native desktop and mobile application development.

For Windows Desktop I’m using the Win UI 3 application development environment to develop the modern responsive applications for Windows 10 and Beyond.

Here is the XAML for a responsive grid for WinUI 3 Application Development

<Grid>
	<Grid.RowDefinitions>
		<RowDefinition Height="10*"/>
		<RowDefinition Height="87*"/>
		<RowDefinition Height="3*"/>
	</Grid.RowDefinitions>
	<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
		<ColumnDefinition Width="1*"/>
		<ColumnDefinition Width="2*"/>
	</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>

	<!-- Top Row -->
	<Border Grid.Row="0" Grid.ColumnSpan="2" Background="LightBlue">
        <TextBlock Text="Top Row" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center"/>


    </Border>

	<!-- Left Column of Second Row -->
	<Border Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="0" Background="SkyBlue">
        <TextBlock Text="Second Row Left Column" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center"/>

    </Border>

	<!-- Right Column of Second Row -->
	<Border Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="1" Background="DodgerBlue">
        <TextBlock Text="Second Row Right Column" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center"/>

    </Border>

	<!-- Bottom Row -->
	<Border Grid.Row="2" Grid.ColumnSpan="2" Background="SteelBlue">
		<TextBlock Text="Bottom Row" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center"/>
	</Border>
</Grid>

How to focus text box in Blazor project

If you have to spend a lot of your time in your day doing repetitive tasks such as entering data into forms then you will likely agree that it can be quite convenient to focus on a textbox in a form.

When you’re accessing a form over and over filling out the same field it can be a huge time saver to have the cursor already in the box ready for you to type and hit enter.

It can greatly reduce the stress of repetitive task by not having to use the mouse as much.

According to the Microsoft training portal, you can easily accomplish this convenient feature in a Blazor project.

All you have to do is add a reference to the input element, then a line of code to activate it. Here is a summary of the information I learned in the Microsoft Training Portal.

The Blazor directive @ref="formInputName" lets the code block create an ElementReference to reference the input element. You can then use this element reference to call FocusAsync after a page has been rendered.
Add code to call FocusAsync after a page has loaded

<input @ref="formInputName" @bind="MyForm.formInputName" />

Now add a variable to activate and use that reference, and the code to call FocusAsync after a page has loaded:

private ElementReference formInputName;

protected override async Task OnAfterRenderAsync(bool firstRender)
{
    if (firstRender) {
        await formInputName.FocusAsync();
    }
}

Form with a text box focused by the Blazor FocusAsync().
Screenshot taken from the results of taking a Microsoft Training.

XR Fusebox Project

AI generated art representing my multimedia production studios.

I’m very proud of my completion of the augmented reality fuse box challenge project. This was a very exciting course in which I learned how to program A/R image target recognition applications without an external third party engine. Using only Unity built-in functionality I was able to define an image target and spawn a 3D object onto that target through the user’s camera.

AI development tools

Artificial intelligence: more commonly known as AI. It’s a hot topic these days and there are many wild rumors going around of what AI can actually do. To help clear up the questions about this topic I’ve compiled a list of some of my favorite AI resources for artists and creators. Using these tools you can do so many things. From writing a letter to creating and generating unique artwork. Even music and animations are able to be generated using AI.

Connect to SFTP using C#

Yes, this happened. We needed to connect to an SFTP server using C#