I’m Abram Jackson, and I’m designing
The Era of Intelligent Apps
Latest Articles
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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.
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The Tyranny of Chat Interfaces to LLMs
So much of our interaction with LLMs is via a singular chat box. It doesn’t have to be that way. What if we move beyond text instructions entirely?
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AI Videocasts and Digging Your Way Out of a Hole
AI gets into a rut as you talk longer, as I found out when I worked with ChatGPT to debug some of its output.
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What are AI Agents? A Precise Answer
What are AI Agents? Although it seems every bit of software claims to be an agent, there are real agentic capabilities we can compare.
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The Archive pt 3: Don’t Hack Away on Vibes Alone
Let’s not hack away on The Archive on vibes alone; let’s evaluate our code. Using Promptfoo!
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Why Programming Benefits the Most from AI Assistance
There’s a few reasons that programming is best suited to using AI, but mostly it is that AI is simply better at programming than writing in English.
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Navigating Without GPS… On the Moon
Imagine being able to navigate on the Moon using only a “smartphone” camera and an image processing application.
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…
