Posts (26)

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2025-09-29
Real AI Agents and Real Work
Real AI Agents and Real Work
The race between human-centered work and infinite PowerPoints
2025-09-11
On Working with Wizards
On Working with Wizards
Verifying magic on the jagged frontier
2025-08-28
Mass Intelligence
Mass Intelligence
From GPT-5 to nano banana: everyone is getting access to powerful AI
2025-08-07
GPT-5: It Just Does Stuff
GPT-5: It Just Does Stuff
Putting the AI in Charge
2025-07-28
The Bitter Lesson versus The Garbage Can
The Bitter Lesson versus The Garbage Can
Does process matter? We are about to find out.
2025-07-07
Against "Brain Damage"
Against "Brain Damage"
AI can help, or hurt, our thinking
2025-06-23
Using AI Right Now: A Quick Guide
Using AI Right Now: A Quick Guide
Which AIs to use, and how to use them
2025-06-01
The recent history of AI in 32 otters
The recent history of AI in 32 otters
Three years of progress as shown by marine mammals
2025-05-22
Making AI Work: Leadership, Lab, and Crowd
Making AI Work: Leadership, Lab, and Crowd
A formula for AI in companies
2025-05-01
Personality and Persuasion
Personality and Persuasion
Learning from Sycophants
2025-04-20
On Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after
On Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after
New models and new thresholds
2025-03-30
No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
When Language Models Learn to See and Create
2025-03-22
The Cybernetic Teammate
The Cybernetic Teammate
Having an AI on your team can increase performance, provide expertise, and improve your experience
2025-03-11
Speaking things into existence
Speaking things into existence
Expertise in a vibe-filled world of work
2025-02-24
A new generation of AIs: Claude 3.7 and Grok 3
A new generation of AIs: Claude 3.7 and Grok 3
Yes, AI suddenly got better... again
2025-02-03
The End of Search, The Beginning of Research
The End of Search, The Beginning of Research
The first narrow agents are here
2025-01-26
Which AI to Use Now: An Updated Opinionated Guide (Updated Again 2/15)
Which AI to Use Now: An Updated Opinionated Guide (Updated Again 2/15)
Picking your general-purpose AI
2025-01-10
Prophecies of the Flood
Prophecies of the Flood
What to make of the statements of the AI labs?
2024-12-19
What just happened
What just happened
A transformative month rewrites the capabilities of AI
2024-12-09
15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to
15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to
Notes on the Practical Wisdom of AI Use
2024-11-24
Getting started with AI: Good enough prompting
Getting started with AI: Good enough prompting
Don't make this hard
2024-11-04
The Present Future: AI's Impact Long Before Superintelligence
The Present Future: AI's Impact Long Before Superintelligence
You can start to see the outlines of an AI future, for better and worse
2024-10-22
When you give a Claude a mouse
When you give a Claude a mouse
Some quick impressions of an actual agent
2024-10-20
Thinking Like an AI
Thinking Like an AI
A little intuition can help
2024-09-16
Scaling: The State of Play in AI
Scaling: The State of Play in AI
A brief intergenerational pause...
2024-09-12
Something New: On OpenAI's "Strawberry" and Reasoning
Something New: On OpenAI's "Strawberry" and Reasoning
Solving hard problems in new ways