“If you’ve never hand-written code, how can you evaluate whether AI wrote good code or not?” – a rant seen in my feed This is part of a post from an angry developer about folks generating code with AI and doing some gatekeeping, insisting that only developers are qualified to judge code. To be sure,…
This should not be allowed by default. Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. I cannot give legal advice. Hire a lawyer in your jurisdiction for legal advice specific to your situation. Last night, I was playing around with my sandboxed Meta Muse agent (I have it connected to dummy accounts because reading Meta’s privacy policy,…
Best practices rock. Best practices suck. These are the two conflicting viewpoints you see the most in any discussion among best practices, about when and how you should use them, or if you should use them at all. Who’s right? The answer depends on the output, and hews very closely to the deterministic/probabilistic split of…
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I barely remember driving to Cleveland today. I made it safely, of course. Safety first. But I challenged myself with an interesting puzzle. What if I took as much of the MAICON schedule as possible, based on all the session descriptions, fed it all to my Hermes Agent to read back to me while I…
The tech is outpacing us. I’ve been on the road now for a while this fall, watching, listening, observing. At a couple of recent conferences I was speaking at, I shoulder surfed sitting next to attendees to see how they were using AI. It was like going back in time to 2024. Turn by turn,…
Last week, we talked about AI and writing style. Let’s make that more tangible. Over the weekend, I was messing around with some code to try to figure out what AI would compress from my own language, and how to prevent it from doing so. AI compresses language by design. It’s how the system works.…
Forward: at the front, toward the future, from the beginning. If forward is the direction we want to go, it’s not just the audience that advances, that moves forward. It’s also the person on stage. I am intensely proud of Katie Robbert as she led a standing room only workshop at MAICON, the Marketing AI…
I have strong opinions about AI Skills. Not generically, but the specific Agent Skills framework. When you hear folks talking about skills in tools like Claude Code, Cowork, Google Antigravity, ChatGPT Work, Meta Muse, etc., they’re referencing the open Skills standard published by Anthropic a year ago that has quickly become the industry standard, so…
