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…
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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Summary In today's episode, I walk through how to build a private local AI pipeline for processing years of sensitive personal messages on a consumer laptop. Here's what this means for you. You gain a step-by-step blueprint for turning unstructured data into a searchable, analyzable database without ever uploading private conversations to the cloud. You'll…
Summary In today's episode, I walk through how to set up your own Claude marketplace using GitHub as a central version control system for AI skills and plugins. Here's what this means for you. You gain a reliable way to automatically push updates to every team member's Claude instance instead of relying on manual downloads…
Summary In today's episode, I break down why most AI brand visibility tools are unreliable and what you should actually measure instead. Here's what this means for you. You can stop paying for snake oil dashboards and instead use free, vendor-sourced data to track how AI systems actually interact with your site. You'll also learn…
“Ask me up to 20 clarifying questions until you have enough information to succeed at the task.” I have been advising folks for years to tell AI to ask it questions, but I’ve noticed something in the most recent generation of models – any model that’s tuned for agentic AI specifically really needs a kick…
