Pyramids to obelisks. Take a look at the job description in the attached image, for an account coordinator at a PR firm. Ask yourself honestly how much of this job AI could do, with today’s capabilities, especially with agentic tools like Claude Cowork. The answer is almost all of it. Creating first drafts of anything?…
A gentle reminder that the only GUARANTEED private AI is with models you are hosting yourself, on your machine or your infrastructure. Every cloud provider, without exception, will have somewhere in their Terms of Service that they will comply with lawful requests for data from the government of their jurisdiction. For example, this is inference…
AI can be overhyped AND be underhyped at the same time. Both things can be true. In the USA, there’s plenty of hype and Texas-size snake oil fields gushing black, tarry slop 24/7. There’s vulture capitalists looking for anything they can flip and make a buck. There’s an entire tranche of companies who are little…
Summary In today's episode, I discuss how professionals can maintain their value in an era where clients use generative AI to "vibe code" their own solutions. Here's what this means for you. You can pivot from performing replaceable typing tasks to providing indispensable strategic thinking that ensures software solves the right problems. You'll also learn…
Summary In today's episode, I explain how hiring managers filter out candidates using generative AI to fake their expertise. Here's what this means for you. You gain the ability to identify genuine talent by cutting through AI fluff and exaggerated resumes. You'll also learn these concepts: why specificity defeats generic AI answers, how trigger questions…
AI should make you smarter. I’m in the middle of updating a deck for my colleagues at SMX (I’m doing a full day AI SEO/PPC workshop next month), and in parallel last night I was trying to have AI generate a Common Core-aligned 6th grade math textbook from scratch, based on Common Core (a USA…
Agentic AI switches system 2 to system 1. For those who haven’t followed the late economist Daniel Kahnemann, his book, Thinking Fast and Slow, detailed two categories of thinking, which he called system 1 and system 2. System 1 thinking is rapid, intuitive, and sometimes unconscious. System 2 thinking is slow, deliberative, and reflective. When…
