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…
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Give directions to the intern differently than you give directions to the manager. In every AI system, there are more or less 3 classes of model: Big, very smart, slow, expensive Medium, smart, moderate in cost and speed Small, dumb, fast, cheap Despite what model makers say, you do not and should not prompt these…
Few things show how fast AI has progressed like video. Do you remember, a scant 3 years ago, how hilariously bad the Pepperoni Hug Spot video was, with crazy distortions, alien-like people “eating” pizza? If you put the script through a modern video generator today like Google’s Flow, you can see how fast AI has…
For every dollar Anthropic has earned, it has irrevocably committed $113 in compute costs over the next 7-10 years, according to the WSJ leak of their S-1 IPO filing. And what does that much compute equal in tangible terms? Based on Anthropic’s own disclosures plus that of its compute partners, NVIDIA, and independent sites like…
