ARR vs ARR. Watch out for this one sly trick.
What’s in an acronym? How to read between the lines.
Bender
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Daily Prompts Continue in the 'How Not to Use AI' Challenge
New entries for the '#HowNotToUseAI Challenge' cover the third week's first three exercises: listening through 'The Ear,' observing through 'The Eye,' and discerning personal inputs through 'The Nose and Mouth.'
Local LLMs in 2026: The Simple Practical Guide
Build Your Own AI Stack with Local LLMs
OpenAI is becoming a surveillance company
It’s not even really trying to hide it
Leopold's Folly
How what one young man did might come to symbolize an entire era
Claude Design Animations Is the Most Underrated AI Video Tool — Here's What It Can Actually Do
Claude Design Animations is wildly underrated. Here are 10 videos I created in 2 days without any motion graphics skills, the exact prompts and references I used, plus tips and limitations.
Breaking: The Republican party is panicking over its ties to Big Tech
And panicking with good reason
Master Inference Engineering: The Skill Behind Faster, Cheaper AI Models
Learn LLM Inference as fast and deep as possible
My Mom Survived Breast Cancer Three Times. Now We're Fighting It Again With AI's Help
My mom’s story and how I’m using AI to navigate the healthcare system
Personal software is here, and you can build yours this week. Grab the setup guide: two routes, four files, every account.
Build it! The complete guide for non-developers: pick the right shape, make the few decisions that matter, and turn one stubborn wish into working personal software.
BREAKING: OpenAI’s unraveling has begun
Their planned IPO is facing headwinds, trust has evaporated, and their burn rate is only getting worse
Prompt Engineering 101
The science behind prompt engineering.
Google's biggest mistake?
A theory about what went wrong, and some open questions about what might happen next
Breaking: U.S. young adults are now more concerned about AI than enthusiastic
Brief update to last’s week’s note re: the growing backlash.
