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Latest Articles
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How to Use AI to Master Writing Ability
AI is revolutionizing writing technology, making it more accessible and effective for everyone… but only if you use it well!
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Why Others Think AI Is a Miracle But You Think It’s Useless
There are some critical issues with today’s AI products, and the solution is not to train better models. The problems are elsewhere.
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How to Make AI That Improves the Wealth Gap
Transportation workers are being replaced, while translators have more work than ever. How can we design AI to benefit everyone?
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How to be Antifragile to Upcoming AI Disruption
If anyone tells you what the future of AI holds, do not believe them. There will certainly be change, but how can we prepare when we don’t know the outcome?
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Is This the End of Programming?
Should you drop out of college and give up your career of software engineering? What’s left for programmers when AI tops the leetcode leaderboards?
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The Unprompting Notecard: Simple Advice for Using AI
You don’t need to learn prompt engineering to get incredible results from AI. A few short tips and practice are all you need.
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Why Chat is the Best (and Worst) Interface to AI
Why do most AI products use chat as their interface? Because conversation allows us to more carefully direct it to what we actually want to have done.
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The Hubris of Scale: A Lesson From Junkmail Detection
Scale won’t solve every problem, and won’t even solve the main problem of today’s AI!
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Beyond Prompting: The Other Ways to Influence LLM output
Beyond prompting, learn every other thing that you can do to an LLM, like the sampler, runtime modification, optimization, and other strategies.
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Abram Jackson
I’m a product manager, working in AI products and platform for as long as they’ve existed. I scale 0 to 1 and deploy to millions. I love spreadsheets and I’m an aspiring grill dad. Read More…


















