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The 'AI agent' pitch finally did something useful
For two years 'agent' meant a demo that booked a fake restaurant. Dots is the first one I'd point at a real chore.
I let an AI sort a week of client chaos
I gave Perplexity and Fireflies the same messy week. One saved me time, one just made notes.
A letter to the friend who's afraid of AI
You don't need to learn prompts. You need one tool that does the thing you hate.
The quiet winners of October's AI launches
A dated roundup of the AI launches that matter this week, minus the marketing.
Models, gated and open: the AI release roundup
A dated roundup of the AI launches that matter this week, minus the marketing.
'The model reads the whole paper' is a half-truth
People say Elicit and scite 'read' research. They read the abstract's angle and show you the cites.
I benchmarked two chatbots on the same stupid question
ChatGPT and Claude on 'plan a birthday for an introvert.' One got the person, one got the party.
Gemini 4 Argon is the best model you can't use
Scoring 53 and gating it to cyber defenders is a strange flex. Impressive, then locked.
'It writes like a human now' is still a stretch
People say the new models sound human. They sound like a polite intern with no risk.
The cheap decision models are the real story of October
Forget the flagships. pplx-decider at $0.04 per million input is a different game.