Julie Zhuo's paid essay looks at playful, seemingly pointless things people build with AI when no one is tracking the hours or demanding a business case, such as an unusual bird display, a talking phone, and a game…
A short, personal unsent letter addressed to someone who once overlooked the author. The piece reflects on the urge to appear larger and more capable when first meeting an influential figure, and the quiet hurt of…
“I recently shared 15 ways I'm using AI at home—from fixing cooking disasters to researching school bonds. Each use case helped me build new AI skills: learning to chat with a large language model (LLM), providing the right context, verifying results, and much more. Now it's time”
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille discuss AI 'clones' built from podcast transcripts and public content that produce advice attributed to real people, often mediocre or things the person would never say. They explore where…
Teresa Torres argues that Claude Code can become a powerful personal operating system for non-technical people, but only if users understand the risks of giving a language model access to their computer. She walks…
Teresa Torres describes a personal 'team of agents' built on Claude that works for her while she is away from the computer: a podcast manager, a sales admin, and a coding manager. Each agent prepares tasks, reports, or…
Marty Cagan's first published article, from a 1986 HP Journal issue, is a technical overview of Hewlett-Packard's internal AI Workstation research program and its first product, a Common Lisp development environment. It…
Shreyas Doshi argues that peer-reviewed studies on human psychology and behavior are often over-trusted by smart people. Such research typically reports averages and correlations across populations, which says little…
Jason Fried describes almost washing his hands with a tiny fly sitting by the drain. Turning on the tap would have sent it down, but a moment of hesitation let the fly escape on its own. The essay uses this small moment…