Tech-Neill-ogy #130 - 12 April 2026

Your Weekly Guide to Leveraging Technology in College Counseling

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Jeffrey Neill
April 14, 2026

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Welcome to Tech-Neill-ogy #130!

I hope all are well! It was a busy week last week as we played host to ~60 parents and friends of Graded as part of our first Career Week. In all, it was a smashing success, though exhausting. Now this afternoon, I’m off to Italy to visit universities with my daughter for a week… so I’ll be brief!

AI Agents Are Reading Your Docs. Are You Ready?

Last month, 48% of visitors to documentation sites across Mintlify were AI agents—not humans.

Claude Code, Cursor, and other coding agents are becoming the actual customers reading your docs. And they read everything.

This changes what good documentation means. Humans skim and forgive gaps. Agents methodically check every endpoint, read every guide, and compare you against alternatives with zero fatigue.

Your docs aren't just helping users anymore—they're your product's first interview with the machines deciding whether to recommend you.

That means:
→ Clear schema markup so agents can parse your content
→ Real benchmarks, not marketing fluff
→ Open endpoints agents can actually test
→ Honest comparisons that emphasize strengths without hype

In the agentic world, documentation becomes 10x more important. Companies that make their products machine-understandable will win distribution through AI.

Online Proctoring: Protect Institutional Reputation in the AI Era

This playbook examines online proctoring solutions that support positive AI use in assessments and uphold academic integrity and trust in the age of AI.

highereddive.tradepub.com/free/w_defa10038/prgm.cgi

Gallup: Gen Z growing more negative toward AI

Most respondents expressed concern that AI designed to speed up tasks would "make learning more difficult.”

Higher Ed Dive

I tried this ChatGPT 'memory' trick — and it's a game changer that takes just 60 seconds

Make ChatGPT actually sound like you with this 'memory' shift

Tom's Guide

New MIT jobs report: Why AI's work impact will roll in like a rising tide, not a crashing wave

AI may be 'minimally sufficient' at most of your text work tasks by 2029, according to new MIT research. Here's why that's good news.

ZDNET

Are Educators Overusing AI?

One New York City education leader has seen an uptick in AI use across emails, grant applications, newsletters, and education-related projects, but just like in the classroom, there are appropriate and inappropriate times to use AI.

Tech & Learning

Newly AI | Build Native iOS & Android Apps with AI

Newly AI (newly.app) helps you build native iOS and Android apps with AI. Describe your app idea, generate React Native code, preview it, and ship.

Newly

Conker for AI powered quizzes and more

Fast and easy to use tools for creating quizzes and formative assessments in a flash.

www.conker.ai

Wondershare EdrawMax: Make a Diagram with AI

Create 210+ types of diagrams with EdrawMax, a simple diagram maker powered by AI. Try free diagram and chart templates. Explore what AI can help in diagramming.

www.edrawsoft.com/ad/edraw-max

Castmagic - 10x Audio Content With AI

Turn long form audio into ready to use content assets, instantly. 10x your content. Upload your Mp3, download transcripts, notes, summaries, highlights, quotes, social posts, & more.

www.castmagic.io

PopAi - Best AI Presentation Maker & Your all-in-one AI Productivity Workspace

Create AI presentations in seconds with PopAi. Join 16M+ users to chat with PDFs, generate AI spreadsheets, & create AI images. Try our AI productivity tools for free!

popai.pro

88% resolved. 22% loyal. Your stack has a problem.

Those numbers aren't a CX issue — they're a design issue. Gladly's 2026 Customer Expectations Report breaks down exactly where AI-powered service loses customers, and what the architecture of loyalty-driven CX actually looks like.

https://www.edficacy.co/ - Tell them Jeff sent you!

There’s a lot of hype right now around Claude. I’m no expert, but I stumbled across this and wanted to share it. Give it a try!

Prompting is the worst way to use Claude.

Here’s what the top 1% do instead:
They set up these 8 files once.
Then they barely prompt again.

LinkedIn

If you do, let me know how it goes!

Please, if you have any great prompts or ideas, please share! Send me a note at [email protected].

Webinars & Live Events Page

Look here for upcoming webinars and other events (and recorded ones) by the College Essay Guy! New events are happening all the time…

www.collegeessayguy.com/webinars-live-events

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This week’s non-tech article is an interesting one:

Why Do Ivy League Colleges Reject Some Students With Perfect Scores?

As highly selective colleges release their admissions decisions, some parents may wonder why some students with lower grades or test scores get admitted, while higher-scoring kids get rejected.

www.forbes.com/sites/marlenacorcoran/2026/02/27/why-do-ivy-league-colleges-reject-some-students-with-perfect-scores

Happy counseling!

Jeff