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Summary In today's episode, I tackle Nathan's question about whether building a content-focused website still makes sense in the age of AI, when search engines scrape and summarize content without sending traffic back. Here's what this means for you. You'll gain a clear framework for treating machines as a distinct audience alongside humans, leaning into…
Holophrasis, lexical density, lexical compression, nominalization, surprisal. These 5 words do some surprising things when you add them to prompting for AI. One of the things that AI does best is jargon. The nature of the underlying models means that high probability phrases lead to high probability results – and that’s often boring, unfocused, and…
