If you don’t want AI to generate generic slop, then you have to establish what generic slop is first. I’m working on a book cover for a book about AI and SEO/PPC and I prompted AI to come up with some concepts. I hated all of them. They were boring, bland, and literally exactly what…
One of the most important lessons I teach in the AI for Writers Summit – free with ads from SmarterX – is something I learned from Kerry Gorgone: a good faith copyright test. Any time you create a work with AI, ESPECIALLY if you don’t provide human-sourced materials, you need to do a good faith…
8 hours. That’s how long the new version of Zhipu AI’s (aka ZAI) flagship model, GLM-5.1, is capable of working autonomously and still cranking out high quality results. ZAI trained ths new model entirely on Huawei Ascend chips, not an NVIDIA GPU in sight. This is China’s leading chip maker for AI, and the benchmarks…
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?…
Summary In today's episode, I explain how to use first principles to solve the problem of conflicting AI instructions. Here's what this means for you. You can significantly reduce AI hallucinations and improve model performance by establishing a clear hierarchy of rules. You'll also learn these concepts: why conflicting instructions confuse models, how to create…
Summary In today's episode, I explain how to move beyond generic AI responses to unlock deep personal growth and learning. Here's what this means for you. You can transform AI into a highly effective personal assistant by providing it with specialized data and structured memory. You'll also learn these concepts: constructing local knowledge graphs for…
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…
Summary In today's episode, I walk through a local AI model roundup covering the latest open-weight models you can actually run on your own hardware. Here's what this means for you. You get a practical playbook for picking the right model, server, and harness combo so you can stop burning through cloud tokens and run…
