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What It Takes to Let an Agent Clean Your Inbox
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The Infinite Sandwich and the Made Bed
Why Systems Thinking Is Your Real AI Superpower
Hey, That's Not the Real Batmobile!
Why "You Are A Marketing Expert" Isn’t A Prompt
Gems Are Becoming Skills, but I Can Find My Gems, Not My Skills
I am using Gemini more and more for editorial and creative work. I like it for developing ideas and roughing out illustrations, while I tend to use other tools for purely operational jobs. That has meant spending quite a bit of time playing with Gems.
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- I prepared my Q3 tax pack on a £6-a-month server
- The difference between skills and context
- The Importance of Being Jev
- Everything That Was Announced During Cloudflare's Birthday Week
- Stupid Gemini Tricks: One Panel Comics
- Meta's Muse asks for a lot of trust
- They're the same video
- Dumb Little Robots, All the Way Down
- Space to be human
- Altman says OpenAI will give independent evaluators employee-like access
- Hugging Bay builds a BitTorrent backup for open AI models as Nvidia buys Hugging Face
- OpenAI paused the $200 ChatGPT tier because demand exceeded its compute
- Apple Watch Audio Intelligence Gives Bystanders No Way to Consent
- OpenAI's Agents Turned a Documentation Build Step Into Remote Code Execution
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97
What breaks, who is liable, and what an agent can reach once it is already inside.
Start with: Your AI Assistant Can't Tell You From an Attacker →
Agents & Tooling
134
Agents, MCP, and wiring AI into the systems you already run.
Start with: AI That Actually Works Together →
Writing & Thinking
94
Prompting, writing, memory, and whether the model is telling you the truth.
Start with: How to Talk to AI (and Actually Get What You Want) →
Building
35
Making things with AI: coding, local models, and open weights.
Start with: You Don’t Need to Be an Expert to Start Making Things with AI →
The Industry
134
The labs, the money, and what enterprises are actually doing.
Start with: The 95% AI Failure Rate Nobody's Talking About (And What to Do About It) →
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