Tagged: AI
The AI Productivity Paradox
AI agents don't give you time back. They raise your ceiling, and you sprint to fill it. My to-do list didn't shrink — it tripled.
The AI Job Threat Is 5x Bigger Than the Headlines
MIT's Iceberg Index maps 13,000 real AI tools against 923 occupations. The visible tech disruption is 2.2% of the labor market. The hidden white-collar exposure is 11.7%.
The Real Lock-In Isn't the Model. It's the Memory.
Anthropic's leaked Conway project and Nous Research's Hermes agent point to the same conclusion: the memory is the product. Here's why that changes how you evaluate AI tools.
Most Prompt Engineering Is Tribal Knowledge
A DrupalCon talk about turning client brain-dumps into Jira tickets buried the real lesson: they version-control their prompts like code. Most teams don't.
We Taught Employees Not to Click Sketchy Links. Then We Built Agents That Click Everything.
A peer-reviewed study tested eight AI browsers against prompt injection hidden on ordinary web pages. 41% got fully hijacked. Here's what to do about it.
Helpful and Instructed Aren't the Same Thing
I asked an agent to spin up a VPN with two simple rules. It broke one of them to be helpful. Here's what that taught me about scoping agent work.
My Doctor Told Me to Track My Blood Pressure. I'm Bad at It.
I used AI to reverse-engineer a blood pressure cuff's Bluetooth protocol and build a hands-free tracking system on a $35 Raspberry Pi. No cloud. No app. No subscription.
That Chart Showing AI Can Do 80% of Your Job? I Read the Fine Print.
Anthropic's viral job-displacement chart is built on 3-year-old guesses by people who don't do the jobs they evaluated. Strip out the speculation and the number drops from 80% to 15%.
The Biggest Threat to AI Right Now Is Helium
A missile strike in Qatar knocked out 33% of the world's helium supply. Helium is irreplaceable in chip fabrication. Your AI tools sit on top of supply chains you can't see.
Sora Is Dead, and Your AI Tools Might Be Next
OpenAI's Sora was supposed to end Hollywood. It's dead. Before you feel too comfortable, ask yourself how many AI tools you're betting on right now.
AI Is Making You More Confident and More Wrong
Only 5-10% of people use AI to challenge their thinking. A new study in Science shows the rest are getting bad advice that makes them certain they don't need better advice.
Most Agent Budgets Fail Because Teams Can't Name Which Type They Need
There are 4 types of AI agents solving completely different problems. Every vendor uses the same word. Here's the diagnostic question that cuts through the noise.
When AI Gets the Keys
Meta's AI agent posted to an internal forum without approval. An engineer followed the advice. SEV1 incident. Here's what every company in this story skipped.
Yesterday I asked: could a new employee find your pricing, place an order, an...
Yesterday I asked: could a new employee find your pricing, place an order, and handle a return using only your systems?
The best AI agent of 2026 is also the most fragile.
The best AI agent of 2026 is also the most fragile.
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160 times.
Meta is cutting 20% of staff to fund AI. $200B in revenue and they still need...
Meta is cutting 20% of staff to fund AI. $200B in revenue and they still need to fire people to afford the bet.
Half a billion dollars, a fake PhD, and a gold Bentley. Nobody checked becaus...
Half a billion dollars, a fake PhD, and a gold Bentley. Nobody checked because nobody wanted to.
Researchers just audited 43 AI benchmarks, over 72,000 test tasks, and found ...
Researchers just audited 43 AI benchmarks, over 72,000 test tasks, and found something that should bother anyone buying AI tools right now.
Here's what 9 million tokens bought me last week.
Here's what 9 million tokens bought me last week.
Token Cost vs Value
Is this too many tokens? Too little?
AI Billing / Value Pricing
If AI makes you 50% faster, do you bill 50% less?
If AI makes you 50% faster, do you bill 50% less?
If AI makes you 50% faster, do you bill 50% less?
90% of companies invested in AI.
90% of companies invested in AI. Fewer than 40% saw meaningful results.
Anthropic just accused Chinese AI labs of stealing Claude's capabilities via ...
Anthropic just accused Chinese AI labs of stealing Claude's capabilities via 16 million queries — calling it "industrial-scale model extraction."
Who's training your future leaders if AI takes the entry-level jobs?
Who's training your future leaders if AI takes the entry-level jobs?
Unpopular opinion: The AWS outage wasn't the AI's fault.
Unpopular opinion: The AWS outage wasn't the AI's fault.
MIT just audited 30 major AI agents. The findings are... sobering.
MIT just audited 30 major AI agents. The findings are... sobering.
Most people think AI = ChatGPT.
Most people think AI = ChatGPT.