I have strong opinions about AI Skills. Not generically, but the specific Agent Skills framework. When you hear folks talking about skills in tools like Claude Code, Cowork, Google Antigravity, ChatGPT Work, Meta Muse, etc., they’re referencing the open Skills standard published by Anthropic a year ago that has quickly become the industry standard, so…
Few things show how fast AI has progressed like video. Do you remember, a scant 3 years ago, how hilariously bad the Pepperoni Hug Spot video was, with crazy distortions, alien-like people “eating” pizza? If you put the script through a modern video generator today like Google’s Flow, you can see how fast AI has…
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…
Choose good or fast. There’s a knob with two settings when we’re using AI research tools: quality and speed. And there’s no middle setting, because a middle setting would deliver half-assed results that were neither fast nor correct. The more I use AI tools for research, the more I realize that you only get two…
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…
Claude Haiku is the single biggest weakness in the Anthropic ecosystem now. Haiku is intended as a low cost, fast, and cheap model to do basic work – reading, summarization, web search, etc. And at the time of its release almost a year ago, it did those things reasonably well. But times change. Models change.…
