Show Your Working

A spiral notebook on a dark desk, open to a handwritten planning list for this site, a fountain pen resting across the page.

Show Your Working is where I document work on learning design, assessment and AI fluency, with the working left in. A build log on authenticating a process, evaluating AI-assisted output, and designing learning workflows that show their working.

What AI Search Says About Your Work: A Three-Week Re-Audit

I asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity the same questions about my work three weeks apart. What changed, what they missed, and how to build your own audit.

A Successful Response Is Not a Successful Result

A decoy parameter is a filter a site accepts then ignores. Eight job boards returned HTTP 200 and ignored the query. How to test if a filter really filtered.

Rebuilding a Job Search That Had Stopped Working

Two self hosted n8n job searches broke in opposite ways. One ran a stale copy of itself; the other silently deleted every result. Neither raised an alarm for a month.

The Parts the Machine Could Not Do

Systematic probing did not break the deadlock; one URL from a working teacher did. On checking advice, an AI's included, and what an automated job search cannot do.