Signal-to-Noise: Crafting Better Content with AI

4 weeks ago
Abram Jackson

AI is best when you give great signal: detailed prompts, lengthy source material, and verifiability. Get more value by improving…

Trace Elements

3 months ago

Dr. Jonathan Enzminger did not believe in anomalies. To a solar-ecology scientist, this anomaly of trace elements was a failure…

The Three Great Liberations of Software

4 months ago

Software as we understand it is essentially "done." But we now face one of the greatest problems in the history…

AI is a Bicycle, Not a Cyclist

5 months ago

Use as much AI as you can for simple and complicated work. But human attention and agency will not be…

Is AI Just a Fancy Autocomplete?

7 months ago

LLMs work through statistical relationships in high dimensional latent space. We can show that this information influences how a model…

Goodnight Model: A Guide to the Hidden Layers That Make AI Really Sing

9 months ago

ChatGPT is an orchestrator, harness, and application. It only uses an LLM. The quality of these features will make or…

How to Beat AI at Your Job

10 months ago

When AI is better than us at our hardest work tasks, what is left for us? A better future is…

Your Agent Has a Brain. Now Give It Hands

10 months ago

An AI agent is a looping LLM decision process that invokes tools to perform digital tasks, reviews the results, and…

10x Your Social Life with AI

10 months ago

Can AI automate friendship? I think AI can remove some of the work so that we can focus on connection.…

The 10x Everything-er: How to Succeed with AI

11 months ago

Beginning a serial adventure in attempting to use AI to become dramatically better at anything. Follow along to learn to…