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.…
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…
3 receipts from MAICON Day 1: “The risk is not that AI does the work. The risk is that AI does the work and we never learn from it.” – Paul Roetzer quoting Tobi Lutke “In the Google Era, visible = recommended. In the AI Era, visible != recommended.” – Wil Reynolds “America now spends…
How do we make better AI tools? This is the hottest topic right now in the field because model makers are saying they need to slow down the development of new models in the USA while it’s full steam ahead everywhere else in the world, particularly China. When it comes to making AI smarter, there’s…
I am now more convinced than ever that AI visibility softare is bullshit. Inspired by Lily Ray, I grabbed all my very long query data out of Google Search Console via the API and started looking at it to see what kinds of AI chats were getting passed along as queries in GSC. First, a…
A very long time ago, I was the Thought Police. I worked at a credit union data center, and I was one of the IT administrators. One of the rather unpleasant tasks I had was to monitor the Microsoft Exchange email server for sensitive data like account numbers, credit card numbers, OFAC data, etc. Microsoft…
“It’s your always-on assistant”. This is the common refrain for all the new agent harnesses – Meta Muse, OpenAI Dots, etc. And it’s terrible. Here’s why: an always-on agent is, well, always on. That means it’s always consuming resources in some fashion, whether or not you want it to be. For example, I use Hermes…
