Category: Artificial Intelligence

  • P2P: The Idle-Period Advantage

    Disclosure: 100% of this document is AI-generated, made by GLM-5.3-Flash on DeepInfra using the OpenCode harness. The silent stretch where your customers go dark Somewhere in your CRM right now sits a customer who bought from you almost a year ago. They opened everything you sent them for the first few weeks after the purchase.…

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  • How AI Text Watermarking Actually Works and Why Original Writing Always Wins

    Here’s how AI watermarking in text works, generally speaking. This holds true for Google’s SynthID as well as other systems like Anthropic’s announced system. Every time AI generates a word (or token), it calculates probabilities for what word should come next. The MOST probable terms are usually what AI picks from. (hence why bad prompts…

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  • Ditch the Detectors: The One Question That Exposes AI Slop

    “Without pulling up the document, tell me what’s in it.” That one sentence tells you in seconds whether or not something is AI slop. You don’t need an AI detector. You don’t need fancy software. You don’t need to burn more tokens or waste more resources. Whether you’re a supervisor, a parent, a teacher, or…

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  • The AI Advantage Is Dead: What Builds a Real Competitive Moat Today?

    “when everyone’s super… no one will be!” – Syndrome, the Incredibles When everyone has access to state of the art models, your AI is no longer any kind of advantage, and depending on you or your team’s level of skill, might even be a disadvantage. So, if AI isn’t an advantage any more, then what…

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  • DeepSeek v4 Flash vs. Claude Sonnet 5: Why Paying 17.8x More for AI Is a Mistake

    This one hastily made slide explains pre-IPO jitters better than anything else when it comes to AI. DeepSeek released its v4 Flash model earlier this year, on April 24. At its release, it was widely regarded as pretty smart and stupid cheap for its size. For a lot of folks using agentic AI, its pay…

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  • Blatant Sales Pitch: AI for Writers Course

    Let’s examine this pile of AI slop, generated by ChatGPT: If you’re a writer, you’ve probably noticed something changing fast: AI isn’t replacing the need for great writing. It’s changing how great writers work. The opportunity isn’t to hand your writing over to AI and hope for the best. It’s to learn how to use…

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  • How Fifth-Generation AI Masters Time Budgeting for Smarter Workflows

    Fifth generation AI models understand time. I discovered this morning, working in Claude Code with Sonnet 5, that it can have an awareness of time and work to a time budget. Previous generations of models lacked this awareness; it seems like models that are aligned strongly for agentic AI can do this. Here’s how it…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: How to Be Independent of US AI Tech?

    Summary In today's episode, I explore how people worldwide can reduce their dependence on US-based technology companies by tapping into sovereign AI labs, local inference providers, and open-source models. Here's what this means for you. You gain a practical roadmap to access capable AI that runs within your own jurisdiction, keeps your data private, and…

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  • Almost Timely News: 🗞️ How To Expand and Improve Content with AI, Part 2 (2026-08-23)

    _Almost Timely News: 🗞️ How To Expand and Improve Content with AI, Part 2 (2026-08-23) :: View in Browser_ The Big Plug Pre-registration for my new course, AI for Writers, is now open! The course opens up Tuesday. Content Authenticity Statement 100% of this week’s newsletter was made by me, the human. Learn why this…

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  • Prove It’s Human: Why the Not AI Certification Is Your New Marketing Advantage

    Scott Stratten called it early this year: certifying that something is NOT AI is a marketing feature now. This morning, as I was making a terrible drawing on my iPad in Adobe Fresco, I noticed a new feature in the export window (I usually hit Quick Export, not Export, so this feature has probably been…

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