Give directions to the intern differently than you give directions to the manager. In every AI system, there are more or less 3 classes of model: Big, very smart, slow, expensive Medium, smart, moderate in cost and speed Small, dumb, fast, cheap Despite what model makers say, you do not and should not prompt these…
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…
I’m an objectively poor manager. It’s not my skill set. I don’t have a ton of patience with people. I get frustrated easily when people don’t follow instructions. As a GenXer and the son of an Army captain, I grew up in a culture where management followed a strict command and control structure. So I…
Here’s the thing about LLMs and therapy. The fundamental nature of an LLM is probabilistic. That’s literally what it is. LLMs by their nature understand probability. They understand frequency. They have enormous visibility into all the knowledge we’ve put online. They have no true understanding of right and wrong, good and evil, moral or not.…
As I often paraphrase from the first Captain America movie, AI will take the good and make it better, and take the bad and make it worse. The present-day education system is a model developed in the early 1900s, funded by Carnegie, Mellon, Rockefeller, Ford, and the barons of the day to manufacture obedient workers…
The thing about generative AI optimization or whatever it is you want to call it, is that when models run into low confidence answers in most tools these days, what do they do? That’s right, they trigger a web search. So if you’re good at regular SEO, you’ve got 90% of the problem solved for…
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…
Leave Claude set on Opus 5.5 Medium. If you want the best blend of performance price brains and brawn, Anthropic pulled off something magical with Opus 5.5. It’s an extremely smart model, but it is also a parsimonious model. In the Artificial Analysis benchmarks, Opus 5.5 parallels the capabilities of Fable 5.1 in terms of…
