Notes

And you know what? They’re quietly winning me over. /s

Two articles crossed my desk this morning: this piece from CNN and this one from The Verge on law enforcement’s use of AI.

The misuse here is devastating. But it underlines something I keep telling family, friends, and clients: you get 100x better at using AI once you realize it’s wrong 75% of the time.

I love stopping in my tracks as people solve real problems we encounter and don’t think about every day.

This guy on the /r/macapps subreddit hard launched a product that actually converts a file when you change its filename.

Ryan is my best friend from Towson.

Lariza and I are hanging chatting about website building!

Currently in the studio with the TikTok team discussing AI agents and what’s coming next. Great energy and some really interesting ideas on how agents can transform creative workflows.

The biggest takeaway here is that what AI does well (write scripts) is being ignored and could be a massive accelerator to people who didn’t know how to write them before. Instead, we’re building agentic workflows in a browser and in walled gardens (Amazon, ecommerce sites, etc.) where this won’t be successful.

Even Katie – who is ordinarily a phenomenal tech journalist – can’t help herself:

She writes: “This is exactly what Instagram has known for a while: Instagram is mainly a place for Reels and DMs, and the main action on there now is watching Reels and DMing them to your friends (which I certainly do!).”

That’s what it is because that’s how they’ve designed it. This isn’t a magical shift in user behavior. They’ve actively developed the product this way.

We are eating some of the best bingsoo I’ve ever had. After 15 minutes of debugging wifi. But…wow.

Tea got hacked yesterday and the legitimate criticism about their security issues aside, no private app should be handling age verification. Laws like the ones written in Texas would/will inevitably lead to this outcome every time.

It should be done on the app store level.