Working with AI
Prompting, memory, and getting real work out of the model, including knowing when not to trust it.
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Digital Resilience: From Concept to Award-Winner in 48 Hours
This week I’ve been immersed in the exhilarating chaos of Hack the Future – a 48-hour climate resilience hackathon in Tallinn, Estonia. Organised by Garage48, Latitude59, and the…
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One Shortcut Is Worth More Than Ten Assistants
I used to think building a great AI assistant meant covering everything: Project planning. Writing help. Scheduling. Notes. Outreach. You name it. So I built one that could…
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Could a 4-Day Work Week Be Your Future?
Efficiency isn’t just a buzzword–it’s the key to unlocking both better work-life balance and unleashing uniquely human capabilities. Recent research supports the notion that AI…
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The Landscape of Available AI Tools
Let's be honest: the AI tool landscape in 2025 is a mess. Every week, a new "game-changing" tool drops. One promises to write better than Hemingway. Another will build you a SaaS…
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Boost Your Creative Writing with Local AI Models
Creative writing is experiencing a significant transformation thanks to advancements in Artificial Intelligence. Writers now have the opportunity to use powerful language models…
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Transformative Imagery at Your Fingertips
(this is an image-heavy edition - make sure that you permit your email client to display them) Dear Reader, If you thought to yourself: Jim missed sending his newsletter last…
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From the Turing Test to Humanity's Last Exam: How We Measure AI
Have you ever wondered how we (as a species) determine if a machine is truly "intelligent"? Long before ChatGPT entered our daily lives, notable mathematician Alan Turing was…
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How to Get the Best Out of ChatGPT: The Art of Effective Prompting
Ever felt like you're getting stuck in circles with ChatGPT (or other chatbots, for that matter)? You're not alone. Despite their impressive capabilities, AI assistants lack…
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AI Voice Cloning and Video Generation Are Revolutionizing Content Creation
I spent the majority of time this and last week keeping my poorly kids entertained at home while trying to look for contract work and create an online course, with video. It…
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💾 The Download #012: AI web search, OpenAI's Whisper, Qwen AI and more.
💾 The Download #012: AI web search, OpenAI's Whisper, Qwen AI and more.
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💾 The Download #011: Notes on DeepSeek, revisiting Make.com automations and more.
This week: Notes on DeepSeek, revisiting Make.com automations and more. In the last few weeks, there's been an explosion of activity and releases in the AI scene, due in part to…
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💾 The Download #010: Photorealistic images in MidJourney, creative AI predictions for the next 5 years, AI tool of the week and more.
I don't know about you, but I'm feeling globally fatigued since the start of this week. Despite all that, I spent some time testing out multi-cam video techniques for some YouTube…
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💾 The Download #009: A Jim-GPT to make your prompt creation easier, testing OpenAI's text-to-video model and more.
In this issue of The Download: A Jim-GPT to make your prompt creation easier, testing OpenAI's text-to-video model and more.
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💾 The Download #005: Perplexity tips, BYO Buffer and more.
The Download #005: A top tip for Perplexity.ai, building my own social media scheduling manager, a power user's guide to Gmail and more
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💾 The Download #004: First AI services available, Notion Marketplace and more.
#004 Hey Reader 👋🏻, While I normally kick off these newsletters with a note about the weather, it should already be known that Valencia is going through a hell of a tough time…
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💾 The Download #003: Updates on Perplexity, Claude’s Anthropic, reflections on creating my “digital twin” and more.
#003 Dear Reader, Greetings again from an incredibly muggy Valencia. Yesterday and today I'm attending the VDS 2024 Tech Conference at the City of Arts and Sciences, so this…
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💾 The Download #002: Automating content creation and sharing, rethinking search and more.
#002 Dear Reader, Greetings from a wet Valencia, where yesterday a few hours of downpour brought about mild flooding, a double rainbow and some general appreciation for a change…
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💾 The Download #001: New product launch, retooling the tech stack and more.
#001 Dear Reader, I’m writing this on a sunny Wednesday afternoon in the garden, having been forced out of my home office due to an internet outage. But as today is a public…