What did you have for lunch last Tuesday? Do you remember? I don’t. It was probably leftovers, but I’m not sure. Why? Because it wasn’t a big deal. But I remember what I had for lunch on a Saturday in May in 2001, 25 years ago. Steak, barely toeing the line between rare and medium…
Pro tip: telling AI not to fabricate or hallucinate is unhelpful if you don’t tell it how. Here’s what someone wrote on LinkedIn recently as part of an “ultimate prompt hack” or whatever superlative they used. Never fabricate: – statistics – articles – people – URLs – etc. I shook my head. This will work…
Summary In today's episode, I tackle the enterprise-level question of how to avoid replacing vendor lock-in with agentic platform lock-in by building local AI inference capabilities. Here's what this means for you. You'll gain pricing independence and operational control over your AI by owning inference hardware rather than depending solely on cloud providers like OpenAI…
Summary In today's episode, I walk through how to implement real governance when AI systems are the ones deciding when to escalate to a human. Here's what this means for you. Treating AI agents like junior employees with managers, reporting mechanisms, and clear performance metrics gives you a practical framework that avoids the governance illusion…
All language is code, and writing is coding. Yesterday during the SmarterX AI Writer’s Summit, one of my session attendees said, after hearing me speak about using agentic AI to write a fiction novel: ‘But am I “writing” a trashy romance novel or am I “programming” one.’ ALL language is code, and writing is coding.…
Summary In today's episode, I walk through what LLMs.txt is, why Google now considers it part of site health, and how to build one using real analytics data. Here's what this means for you. You learn that LLMs.txt does not boost AI visibility but serves as a curated briefing document that helps AI agents navigate…
Your company will probably be buying AI hardware at some point if you’re heavy users of it. I ran an assessment this morning in Opcode to see what Trust Insights Claude Code usage was for the last 30 days and see what we would have paid if we were on Enterprise instead of Max 20.…
Let’s talk about not supporting AI/big tech companies financially. It’s probably not realistic, if you are a working professional in a knowledge work job, to avoid big tech companies like Google, Microsoft, Meta, and other companies shoving AI down your throat. But like everything, you can reduce harm. First, almost all Big Tech is in…
Summary In today's episode, I show how AI agents like Claude CoWork can hunt for hidden jobs that never appear on saturated job boards. Here's what this means for you. You can transform a repetitive manual search into a scalable automated process that uncovers opportunities through regional labor data and direct company outreach. You'll also…
