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Why your prompt templates are mostly useless
A giant folder of 'perfect prompts' feels like leverage. In practice you reread them and write a fresh one anyway.
Benchmarking AI image models is more broken than people admit
Leaderboards decide which model you try. Most of them measure the wrong thing, and the models are trained to win them.
AI Won't Take Your Job, and the Reason Is Boring
Every cycle brings the headline that this model finally takes your job. It doesn't, because most jobs are mostly coordination, not the part AI is good at.
Delegate the Draft, Not the Decision
The most productive use of AI I've found is narrow: let it draft, never let it decide. The draft is cheap to redo; the decision is the part that's actually yours.
Why I Kept the Dumb Tool
I almost cancelled a plain text expander and realized it did one thing no AI did: it fired instantly, offline, with zero ambiguity. The AI version waited and sometimes got the shortcut wrong.
The Two-Tool Stack That Stuck
I tried the 'one AI to rule them all' approach and the 'twelve specialized tools' approach. The one that stuck was two, a careful model and a fast one.
What Shipped in AI This Week, and Why the Cadence Matters
If you blinked in late September you missed a generational update compressed into days. The lead any lab holds now lasts weeks, not quarters.
AI News, Early October 2026: Agents on Leashes and Liability
The first week of October kept September's pace: agents in production, safety scares, and a price war now about cost per task. A few threads stood out.
The AI Copyright Mess Got Messier in 2026
The training-data fight didn't resolve, it sprawled. A leaked worry about agent liability and a credit dispute over a math proof show the ground is still shifting.
Your Prompt Library Is Dead Weight
I kept a folder of 'perfect prompts' and never reused one. The prompt that worked last month is a relic the moment the model changed, and models change constantly now.