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Latest Articles
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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…
