I’m Abram Jackson, and I’m designing
The Era of Intelligent Apps
Latest Articles
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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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Why Social Media Search is So Bad, and How to Fix It
Social media search is terrible because it’s a harder problem than web search. Yet I implemented my own search engine of X/Twitter with excellent results.
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Far Over the Misty Mountains Cold
I improvised music to go along with reading The Hobbit to my children. Grab a copy!
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The Magic Promise of Inference-Time Compute
How much is it worth to solve humanity’s biggest problems? If only there was someone to pay! Agents may enable AI to think through any problem we can think of.
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AI’s Hardest Problem: Teaching Us to Use It Better
Not only is AI smarter than us in most ways, but it is so much smarter than us that we struggle to use it well. Learn how to level up and use AI effectively.
Author Profile
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…
