Links and short notes from the things I read and share.
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I regularly read this awesome newsletter from Superhuman on AI. The newsletter is great. I noticed they fell into a common slop journalism pattern on this OpenAI blurb they wrote.
If you’re a journalist, reporter, or newsletter publisher: Never write an article or blurb on a person or organization’s claim or reaction to news. If you find yourself doing this, reframe your article to “Company X is making a claim. Is this true?”
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And you know what? They’re quietly winning me over. /s
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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.
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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.
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Ryan is my best friend from Towson.
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Lariza and I are hanging chatting about website building!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We are eating some of the best bingsoo I’ve ever had. After 15 minutes of debugging wifi. But…wow.
