AI Journal

This online journal started out as NICKTONG.md, and goes by the same domain name. The .md was a nod to CLAUDE.md, the instruction file convention used by AI agent frameworks, and to Markdown, the plain-text format behind most of what I build. For anyone in the developer world, the domain name was a

Most people probably think better AI output comes from better prompts. There is some truth in that, but I increasingly think context matters more: whether the AI already understands your work, your terminology, your stakeholders, your preferred formats, your tone, and the standards you apply. A good

My work as an in-house legal counsel often requires me to build PowerPoint decks: internal training, external engagements, and consolidated summaries for leadership. When I am free to choose the medium, I now prefer HTML over PowerPoint.

Part of my job involves tracking gaming regulation across more than a dozen markets: new laws, regulator guidance, enforcement actions, and how other publishers respond in public. I built a legal-regulatory wiki to organise that material into something I can query: not just a record of what happened