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Fast on the heels of my last post about a SETI@home for AI Assisted Research , I decided to get a prototype concept in place for at least the portion I could reasonably address: curation of research-focused AI prompts. I decided to call it Prompts for Pro

If you were online around the turn of the millennium, you may have vivid memories of the SETI@home project. It was a beautiful example of capturing the public interest in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, i.e. looking for aliens. The way it wo

Each year I try to make sure I catch the Conversations with Tyler retrospective, in which Tyler reflects on the year's episodes and related content. I like hearing Tyler's own self assessment, what stood out to him, and what he enjoyed or did not enjoy. T

My earlier post about the rise of voice as a UI had me pondering what exactly is it that makes voice input ideal in some circumstances and entirely undesired in others. Spoken language is faster per word and, in a naive economic sense, "better" 1 . And ye

I've been trained to keep things short, and so have you, which is part of what I want to talk about today 1 . This is becoming rapidly obvious, but it's worth jotting down: we're at the beginning of a major transition to voice as a table stakes UI. If you

I met a tourist visiting San Francisco for the first time recently, and when asking about their impressions of driving in the city they said "there are a lot of stop signs". I never really paused to think about whether this is a uniquely SF thing, or just

I don't want to be too verbose on this topic, but I think the era of app slop is upon us and the reasoning goes something like this: Vibe coding has real struggles - it works great in some cases, and the barrier to entry is very low However, unique anythi

There are a lot of models these days. I find myself asking the same question - like literally the exact same prompt copy and pasted - to various models from various providers. I use the exact same prompt because I'm curious to probe how the various models

It occurred to me the other day with the OpenAI International Math Olympiad results that OpenAI is either very good at keeping corporate secrets a secret, or they have highly ethical employees, or both (likely)! If this were not true, I would have expecte