A reminder that editing with AI makes works read more like AI. When GenAI works on text, it works in probabilities. That’s literally how it works at its heart, figuring out the most probable next item in a sequence based on the data in the sequence. It’s why it’s so good at things like predicting…
Choose which bots to block carefully. Cloudflare, a couple days ago, made significant changes to how they identify AI bots. You can now block specific classes and types of AI bots, and they’re in three categories: AI Crawler: this vacuums up your content to feed model training data AI Search: this bot searches for stuff…
One of the best things you can do in enterprise AI is set up testbeds to count tokens. Here’s why. Claude’s enterprise pricing is this: Opus 4.8: $5/million tokens in, $25/million tokens out Sonnet 4.6: $3/million tokens in, $15/million tokens out Microsoft’s pricing is based on Copilot Credits; 1 credit is one penny, and they…
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PSA: Agents do stuff for you. In all the buzz about AI agents, very few people are using the term for what it means. Agents in computing are not new. We’ve had agents of some kind since 1963. Every time you take your phone and connect to a new wifi point, a slew of different…
Summary In today's episode, I explore why retrieval augmented generation and hybrid databases render fine-tuning obsolete for most enterprise AI applications. Here's what this means for you. You can cut AI costs and reduce security risks by combining vector databases, structured databases, and knowledge graphs instead of retraining models on your proprietary data. You'll also…
What’s AI best at when it comes to innovation? Context. Specifically, the context in which your idea fits. AI is generally not good at completely net new ideas because they don’t exist in context, AND because by definition something truly innovative is low probability. AI by definition generates the highest probability items in a local…
