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- Substack Writers, You Need a Website
Substack is a distribution tool, not a home. A 478-point Hacker News post makes the case for POSSE — publish on your own site, syndicate everywhere else — and it holds up.
- Stop Guessing Whether AI Is Coming for Your Job. Ask the Data.
Anthropic made its Economic Index queryable in plain language inside Claude. The anxious question about your own field is now a research task you can actually run — with the honesty to read its limits.
- Tell AI What You Want and Who You Are
Two takes on the same idea — the ASD-STE100 controlled-English standard and the i-have-adhd Claude Code skill — on giving your AI a writing system and telling it what you want.
- SoN 2.28: "That's good, how can we make it better?"
When I think about AI and automation, I see an opportunity opening up that goes well beyond the chatbots everyone’s being handed — well beyond…
- The model of the week changes by Thursday
Two headlines are eating the feeds this morning, and both have the shelf life of milk. Anthropic extended Claude Fable 5 to every paid plan through…
- SoN 2.26: The best AI models are getting harder to get
Tales from the Workbench =================================================== Some weeks the newsletter is one idea worked all the way through when…
- What I Automate with AI
What I Automate with AI I went looking today for a list of everything I’ve got automated since I started this AI journey back in 2024. Every tool…
- Fable: here in an instant, then gone
Fable: here in an instant, then gone Last week I wrote about Fable 5 — Anthropic’s newest model — and the catch: it was only on the normal…
- 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…
- The most powerful Claude yet — and the part you can't have
Claude Fable 5 Anthropic dropped a new model yesterday, and I’ve spent the time since doing what I always do with a new one — reading past the…
- 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…
- 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…
- SoN 2.20: Technology, Not a Product (Free Edition)
Technology, Not a Product (Free Edition) Dear Reader, Are you using AI like a vending machine? Last weekend John Gruber (of Daring Fireball fame)…
- SoN 2.17: You Can't Cost-Reduce Yourself to Greatness (Free Edition)
You Can't Cost-Reduce Yourself to Greatness (Free Edition) I caught a Seth Godin interview at the beginning of the week and one line in particular…
- SoN 2.15: Ask your AI to Ask You Questions (Free Edition)
Ask Your AI To Ask You Questions (Free) Ask your AI to ask you questions Last Saturday morning I sat down to write the weekly digest for my build-log…
- 97% Expect a Breach. 6% Are Paying for It.
Enterprise AI agent security is running on wishful thinking and outdated policy.
- Anthropic Didn't Block Abuse. They Blocked Competition.
The OpenClaw subscription ban isn't about fair use — it's Anthropic asserting platform control while shipping their own replacement.
- Claude Code Channels: When Your Agent Gets a Phone Number
Anthropic's new messaging integration isn't about convenience — it's about changing how you think about what an AI agent is.
- MCP Just Changed Hands. Watch What Happens Next.
Anthropic donating MCP to the Linux Foundation is good governance — and a signal that the easy days of fast iteration are probably over.
- "Agentic" Is the New Cloud
Every vendor is calling their product agentic. Almost none of them are.
