Showing 1–18 of 18 posts
- Working with AI
Ask your AI to save its work as files
I've kept a daily log in a file since the early days of using models, so I can switch models or start a new chat and pick up where I was. Ask for your work as files, and keep them in named folders.
- Agents & Tooling
When Gemini Runs Claude, What Are You Buying?
Google’s workplace agent can use models from more than one provider. I want to know what happens to my instructions, files and work history when I switch.
- Agents & Tooling
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.
- Agents & Tooling
The difference between skills and context
A skill is the reusable instructions for doing a job. Context is the material that goes into this particular job. I use my one-panel cartoon Gem as the example.
- Agents & Tooling
Stupid Gemini Tricks: One Panel Comics
A quick and dirty Gemini Gem demo on creating one-panel comics.
- Security & Risk
Gemini’s saved instructions now carry across more Workspace apps
Google is extending shared preferences across Workspace. Users can save instructions in conversation, manage them in settings and see which shaped a response.
- Security & Risk
Google signed the letter asking for cyber-capable AI, then gated its cyber model
156 companies called for a surge in cyber defence on 27 August. On 2 September Google shipped its most capable security model to trusted defenders.
- Agents & Tooling
World models could widen the AI divide before they improve ordinary work
World models are far behind language models in deployment evidence, and their development could concentrate further.
- Security & Risk
Perplexity brings hybrid frontier and local AI to your Mac
Hybrid compute runs a classifier on your Mac to decide what reaches the cloud. The admin rules and the record of what left are Enterprise features.
- Security & Risk
The Share Button Is a Publish Button
600 Claude conversations turned up in Google because a shared page shipped without a noindex tag. Nobody got hacked.
- Agents & Tooling
SoN 2.23: Google says you can skip the 'AEO' hacks
Ooh, Shiny New Tech Acronym... You might have seen this acronym doing the rounds: AEO. Answer Engine Optimisation — or GEO, Generative Engine Optimisation, if you prefer. The…
- Agents & Tooling
WWDC26 Keynote Thoughts
Lately I’ve been reaching for Gemini more than I expected to. Not for everything — but enough to notice it’s getting better at the non-coding bits of work that I do. So when Apple…
- Agents & Tooling
SoN 2.22: How do you choose "the best" AI tool?
How do you choose "the best" AI tool? A friend asked me this week to explain how to use “all the different AI tools” — ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, the lot. She wanted, in her words,…
- Security & Risk
Google's Free AI Comes With a Price
Gemini's Personal Intelligence feature just expanded to all free U.S. users — connecting AI to Gmail, Photos, and Chrome browsing history.
- Agents & Tooling
Google's VP Said It Out Loud: LLM Wrappers Face Extinction
When a platform vendor publicly warns that wrapper products will be absorbed, the timeline for differentiation just got shorter.
- Building
You Don’t Need to Be an Expert to Start Making Things with AI
In a tech world obsessed with frameworks, best practices, and shipping at scale, it’s easy to forget that sometimes you’re allowed to build things just because you want to. You…
- Agents & Tooling
Navigating the AI Assistant Landscape: Finding What Works for You
This week, I’ve been juggling two big challenges: fine-tuning Claude's MCP server tools for a client project and gearing up for a hackathon in Estonia. It’s been a balancing act…
- Agents & Tooling
Why AI-Powered Search Is Replacing Google
Greetings from rainy and wet Valencia, where I’ve been deep in research mode for my latest project. This has me thinking about how dramatically our research methods have evolved…
