Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.10, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Tomorrow's Blueprint Kickstarting the era of intelligent apps ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://www.abramjackson.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Signal-to-Noise: Crafting Better Content with AI](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/signal-to-noise-crafting-better-content-with-ai/) - AI is best when you give great signal: detailed prompts, lengthy source material, and verifiability. Get more value by improving your Signal-to-Noise Ratio. - [Trace Elements](https://www.abramjackson.com/hobbies/trace-elements/) - Dr. Jonathan Enzminger did not believe in anomalies. To a solar-ecology scientist, this anomaly of trace elements was a failure of the model. - [AI is a Bicycle, Not a Cyclist](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-is-a-bicycle-not-a-cyclist/) - Use as much AI as you can for simple and complicated work. But human attention and agency will not be replaced soon. You still need to hire humans. - [AI Has Booted Five Billion-Dollar Features. What's Next?](https://www.abramjackson.com/analysis/ai-has-booted-five-billion-dollar-features-whats-next/) - These five successful features are copied by all the AI labs. What they have in common gives us clues to what will be the sixth. - [Goodnight Model: A Guide to the Hidden Layers That Make AI Really Sing](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/goodnight-model-a-guide-to-the-hidden-layers-that-make-ai-really-sing/) - ChatGPT is an orchestrator, harness, and application. It only uses an LLM. The quality of these features will make or break an AI chat product. - [How to Make AI That Improves the Wealth Gap](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/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? - [The Magic Promise of Inference-Time Compute](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/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. - [The Three Great Liberations of Software](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/the-three-great-liberations-of-software/) - Software as we understand it is essentially "done." But we now face one of the greatest problems in the history of software and computing. - [Is AI Just a Fancy Autocomplete?](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/is-ai-just-a-fancy-autocomplete/) - LLMs work through statistical relationships in high dimensional latent space. We can show that this information influences how a model responds. - [The Tyranny of Chat Interfaces to LLMs](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/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? - [How to Beat AI at Your Job](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/how-to-beat-ai-at-your-job/) - When AI is better than us at our hardest work tasks, what is left for us? A better future is in store for those that put in the effort to work with AI today. - [Your Agent Has a Brain. Now Give It Hands](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/your-agent-has-the-brain-now-give-it-hands/) - An AI agent is a looping LLM decision process that invokes tools to perform digital tasks, reviews the results, and continues. Add tools to make your own agent! - [Why Agents Are the Most Useful Part of AI Chat](https://www.abramjackson.com/analysis/why-agents-are-the-most-useful-part-of-ai-chat/) - AI chat would be too difficult to use and much less effective without agents. They serve three major purposes to learn and use AI successfully. - [10x Your Social Life with AI](https://www.abramjackson.com/10x-everything-er/10x-your-social-life-with-ai/) - Can AI automate friendship? I think AI can remove some of the work so that we can focus on connection. Watch me start my journey to 10x everything in my life. - [The 10x Everything-er: How to Succeed with AI](https://www.abramjackson.com/10x-everything-er/the-10x-everything-er-how-to-succeed-with-ai/) - Beginning a serial adventure in attempting to use AI to become dramatically better at anything. Follow along to learn to become a 10x Everything-er! - [From AI: The New Developer](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/from-ai-the-new-developer/) - AI-written version of the previous post on users as the third type of developers. - [The New Developers](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/the-new-developers/) - Programming is no longer the realm of professionals or even enthusiast makers. Users can build their own software, better meeting their needs and requirements. - [Think First, Then AI](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/think-first-then-ai/) - Before using AI to write, make sure you've done the thinking. Learn how to leverage AI tools without diminishing the unique value of your ideas. Think first! - [When AI is Horribly Lost Down the Wrong Path](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/getting-horribly-lost-down-the-wrong-path/) - Every word sent to an AI gives it a nudge in some direction. Over time, you'll end up somewhere! If that's the wrong place, save your context and start over. - [Why Social Media Search is So Bad, and How to Fix It](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/why-social-media-search-is-so-bad/) - 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. - [Beyond Prompting: The Other Ways to Influence LLM output](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/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. - [Better Agents Through Evaluation: How To](https://www.abramjackson.com/analysis/better-agents-through-evaluation-how-to/) - See how testing your agents with LLM-judged questions (evaluation) will improve their quality, prevent regressions, and boost reliability for years to come. - [Juice: How to Make Any Project Succeed](https://www.abramjackson.com/analysis/juice-how-to-make-any-project-succeed/) - No matter your skill, what matters is whether the buyer is paying attention to what you're doing. If you don't have the Juice, go get it. - [Interpretability: What AI Actually Thinks (Then Fixing It)](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/interpretability-what-ai-actually-thinks-then-fixing-it/) - How can we fix the bugs in AI models until we understand them? Learn how we'll all be debugging our software one day through model interpretability. - [Focus on the Idea: How AI Can Elevate Art](https://www.abramjackson.com/image-generation/focus-on-the-idea-how-ai-can-elevate-art/) - AI art thrives when driven by ideas, not technique. Discover how to make AI-generated media meaningful—beyond skill or effort. - [Entirely New Communication Patterns Between AI and Humans](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/entirely-new-communication-patterns-between-ai-and-humans/) - AI Agents can communicate like humans, but also in new ways that we've never seen before. Here's what AI products are doing now and what they'll do next. - [Agent2Agent: Why Agents Need to Talk to Each Other](https://www.abramjackson.com/analysis/agent2agent-why-agents-need-to-talk-to-each-other/) - The new Agent2Agent protocol enables a very interesting future of the internet. Learn how to get your agents talking to each other on the public web. - [Last App Standing: Software That Will Continue to Thrive](https://www.abramjackson.com/analysis/last-app-standing-software-that-will-continue-to-thrive/) - Will general-purpose AI destroy all other software? Here's the software you can build now that will grow into the future, even if you aren't a frontier AI lab. - [Think Faster and Better: AI As Your Co-Founder](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/think-faster-and-better-ai-as-your-co-founder/) - You can collaborate right now with a co-founder that complements your skills, tirelessly iterates, and works faster than you can dream. AI is ready. Are you? - [AI Isn't a Thing That's Just Happening to Us](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-isnt-a-thing-thats-just-happening-to-us/) - We can choose how AI is built and affects the world. Will we replace ourselves or become happier and more efficient? Let's build the right kind of AI. - [A Better Return on Intelligence for Everyone](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/a-better-return-on-intelligence-for-everyone/) - A new podcast with a mission to democratize and teach AI that benefits people. Introducing Return on Intelligence with Abram Jackson and Daniel Anderson. - [The Best Agents Rise Above Automations Through Conversation](https://www.abramjackson.com/analysis/the-best-agents-rise-above-automations-through-conversation/) - Unlock greater efficiency with AI agents that collaborate through conversation, refining and enhancing tasks. Part 2 of a series on making great AI agents. - [Doers: Those That Will Benefit from AI](https://www.abramjackson.com/analysis/doers-those-that-will-benefit-from-ai/) - It's an open secret which people will thrive during the AI wave. Here's how to avoid traps of avoiding making decisions and become "high agency." - [Transformers Are a Secret Unlock to Awesome Image Generation](https://www.abramjackson.com/image-generation/transformers-are-a-secret-unlock-to-awesome-image-generation/) - A history of diffusers' faults and how transformers address them. Diffusers are still used by GPT-4o, but now how you think! - [Agents Are Better When They Are Opinionated](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/agents-are-better-when-they-are-opinionated/) - Tired of boring answer? See how to create AI agents with your own tastes and preferences, improving output quality and gaining customers. - [The Best Agent You've Seen So Far](https://www.abramjackson.com/analysis/the-best-agent-youve-seen-so-far/) - Agent instructions are critical to get right. Learn why to write in Markdown, go right up to the character limit, and include examples. - [A New Hope for SaaS: Embracing AI Agents](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/a-new-hope-for-saas-embracing-ai-agents/) - How AI Agents will work with you as proactive, personal, capable, and communicative assistants. And what will remain for us to do? - [How to Build AI Agents to Be Effective](https://www.abramjackson.com/analysis/how-to-build-your-ai-agents-to-be-effective/) - Effective AI agents handle complex or menial workflows with instructions, knowledge, and skills. Learn to use these capabilities effectively with your agents! - [Outstanding AI Agents are Laser-Focused on a Role](https://www.abramjackson.com/analysis/outstanding-ai-agents-are-laser-focused-on-a-role/) - How can we design incredible AI agents that solve real problems for users? Identify the role an agent should play and give exactly the right capabilities. - [The Unprompting Notecard: Simple Advice for Using AI](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/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. - Tomorrow's Blueprint - [How People Perceive AI and Expect in the Future](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/how-people-perceive-ai-and-expect-in-the-future/) - Analysis of a large study of people's perception and hope for AI, including definitions and expected value. - [AI That You Don't Want to Smash](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-that-you-dont-want-to-smash/) - AI features may make you want to go Office Space on your computer, or they may provide transformational value. Learn how to do that second one! - [How to Use AI to Master Writing Ability](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/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! - [Why Others Think AI Is a Miracle But You Think It's Useless](https://www.abramjackson.com/analysis/why-others-think-ai-is-a-miracle-but-you-think-its-useless/) - There are some critical issues with today's AI products, and the solution is not to train better models. The problems are elsewhere. - [How to be Antifragile to Upcoming AI Disruption](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/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? - [Is This the End of Programming?](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/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? - [Why Chat is the Best (and Worst) Interface to AI](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/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. - [Human-Orchestrated Agents for Better Autonomy](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/human-orchestrated-agents-for-better-autonomy/) - AI cannot operate on its own for very long. But with a human-in-the-loop, we can execute long and useful plans. Code included! - [The Hubris of Scale: A Lesson From Junkmail Detection](https://www.abramjackson.com/analysis/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! - [Far Over the Misty Mountains Cold](https://www.abramjackson.com/hobbies/far-over-the-misty-mountains-cold/) - I improvised music to go along with reading The Hobbit to my children. Grab a copy! - [AI’s Hardest Problem: Teaching Us to Use It Better](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/ais-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. - [AI Videocasts and Digging Your Way Out of a Hole](https://www.abramjackson.com/image-generation/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. - [What are AI Agents? A Precise Answer](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/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. - [The Archive pt 3: Don't Hack Away on Vibes Alone](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/the-archive-pt-3-dont-hack-away-on-vibes-alone/) - Let's not hack away on The Archive on vibes alone; let's evaluate our code. Using Promptfoo! - [The Archive, Pt 2: Giant Vector Databases with Big GPUs](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/the-archive-pt-2-giant-vector-databases-with-big-gpus/) - A naïve implementation of a vector database would take 190GB of system memory. We'll need to make several kinds of optimization. - [Why Programming Benefits the Most from AI Assistance](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/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. - [Amounting to a Hill of Beans](https://www.abramjackson.com/analysis/amounting-to-a-hill-of-beans/) - Have you amounted to a hill of beans? Let's calculate it together! - [How to "Smell" AI Images](https://www.abramjackson.com/image-generation/how-to-smell-ai-images/) - How to tell at a glance whether an image is AI-generated or not. - [The Archive, Pt 1: Purpose and Beginnings](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/the-archive-pt-1-purpose-and-beginnings/) - My new project is an offline AI to answer any question. You can think of it like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, or a Rabbit R1 that doesn't have issues. - [Navigating Without GPS... On the Moon](https://www.abramjackson.com/analysis/navigating-without-gps-on-the-moon/) - Imagine being able to navigate on the Moon using only a “smartphone” camera and an image processing application. - [The Final Invention We Need](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/the-final-invention-we-need/) - A matrix of numbers in an AI can create new knowledge, even though it was created from existing data. It can combine info with reasoning into new knowledge. - [ExcelLM - AI on Tabular Data](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/excellm-ai-on-tabular-data/) - Much of our business work is in spreadsheets - why shouldn't we have the full and flexible power of an LLM in Excel? - [Generating Images as Fast as Your Mouse Moves](https://www.abramjackson.com/image-generation/generating-images-as-fast-as-your-mouse-moves/) - Exploring better interfaces for prompting image generation AI with realtime updates. - [How to Improve your LLM Application](https://www.abramjackson.com/artificial-intelligence/how-to-improve-your-llm-application/) - Avoid becoming an "OpenAI Wrapper" by improving you Generative AI application to have application code, reasoning, tools, and synthesis. ## Pages - [More of My Websites](https://www.abramjackson.com/more-of-my-websites/) - What Model Today Instant answer to today's strongest coding model, as gleaned from tech chatter. 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