AI is a pay cut for you, the human. It’s tempting to take the easy route and talk about a stagnant job market, or tech companies using AI as a cover for large scale job cuts, but that’s not what I’m talking about here. A decade ago, Katie Robbert and I worked at a PR…
Western #AI companies: “Protect us from Chinese AI companies!” Also Western AI companies: “NO you can’t use our models for cybersecurity” Hugging Face ended up using Z.ai GLM-5.2 to defend itself from OpenAI rogue models: https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026 Whenever you hear a Western politician talking about banning/regulating open weights models, it’s because a broligarch has his hands…
Tell AI what wins. One of the things that will degrade AI performance the most – and silently – is conflicting instructions where the AI has to determine what you mean. If you look at the reasoning traces (internal chat) when you give conflicting instructions, you’ll see AI models literally chasing their tails. It looks…
“Without pulling up the document, tell me what’s in it.” That one sentence tells you in seconds whether or not something is AI slop. You don’t need an AI detector. You don’t need fancy software. You don’t need to burn more tokens or waste more resources. Whether you’re a supervisor, a parent, a teacher, or…
“when everyone’s super… no one will be!” – Syndrome, the Incredibles When everyone has access to state of the art models, your AI is no longer any kind of advantage, and depending on you or your team’s level of skill, might even be a disadvantage. So, if AI isn’t an advantage any more, then what…
This one hastily made slide explains pre-IPO jitters better than anything else when it comes to AI. DeepSeek released its v4 Flash model earlier this year, on April 24. At its release, it was widely regarded as pretty smart and stupid cheap for its size. For a lot of folks using agentic AI, its pay…
Fifth generation AI models understand time. I discovered this morning, working in Claude Code with Sonnet 5, that it can have an awareness of time and work to a time budget. Previous generations of models lacked this awareness; it seems like models that are aligned strongly for agentic AI can do this. Here’s how it…
