_Almost Timely News: 🗞️ How to Build a Cheap AI Setup (2026-08-09) :: View in Browser_ The Big Plug 👉 New merch! The Trust Insights Deep Research Suite Content Authenticity Statement 100% of this week’s newsletter was made by me, the human. Learn why this kind of disclosure is a good idea and might be…
Summary In today's episode, I break down how companies should navigate the gap between optimizing for AI-generated summaries and optimizing for AI agents that act on a user's behalf. Here's what this means for you. You'll discover that making your site fully accessible to machines also lifts the experience for human users with visual impairments,…
Last night I used Minimax M3 to generate a steaming pile of AI slop in 51 minutes, a 50,000 word 1920s romance novel set in Venice. (and it’s terrible) I did it to prove a point to a commenter on X who publicly posted they didn’t feel like human authors deserved fair compensation for their…
How do you generate less generic music with AI? You start by using existing music. AI, by definition, will create mathematical averages of the tasks you give it, be it writing, images, video, or music, based on what is most probable in its training data set. DISCLAIMER: I AM NOT A LAWYER. THIS IS NOT…
Summary In today's episode, I walk through how to solve the cold start problem for AI personalization when you have zero behavioral data on new users. Here's what this means for you. You'll gain a practical framework for bootstrapping personalization using synthetic AI agents instead of forcing users through rating screens. You'll also learn these…
_Almost Timely News: 🗞️ Can AI Be An Investment Expert? (2026-08-02) :: View in Browser_ The Big Plug 👉 New merch! The Trust Insights Deep Research Suite Content Authenticity Statement 95% of this week’s newsletter was made by me, the human. You’ll see multiple outputs from Claude and a link to the report it generated.…
