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AI Won't Replace All Jobs at Once — The Order It's Coming for Them Matters
I've been thinking a lot this week about the sequencing of what AI replaces — and I think most people are getting it wrong. The popular narrative right now is…
AI Won't Kill Jobs — It'll Kill the Jobs Nobody Wanted, Then Come for the Ones We Did
I've been thinking a lot about the jobs question lately. Not the abstract, academic version — the real one. The one where actual industries are already…
If AI Gives Everyone an Average Income, What Does "Average" Actually Want to Buy?
Here's a thought exercise that's been stuck in my head all week. Let's say AI does what a lot of very smart people think it's going to do. It reshapes labor…
Knowledge Ingestion Is the Killer AI App
I've been deep in the AI weeds for months now — writing about AutoGPT, vector databases, plugins, browsing capabilities — and I thought I had a pretty solid…
I Cloned My Face in 3D for Free
I've been watching AI developments closely — AutoGPT, ChatGPT browsing the web, voice cloning — but Avaturn hit different. Not because of the technical spec.…
AutoGPT Just Asked Me for My Credit Card
I've been running AutoGPT on real tasks for a few weeks now, and I've been pretty open about documenting what works, what doesn't, and what surprises me. But…
AutoGPT Just Built Visualizations on Its Own — Now I Want to Publish It
I've been running an AutoGPT experiment for a while now — tasking it with building a global museum index from scratch. I was talking about the initial run…
I Gave AutoGPT a Real Job: Build a Global Museum Index
I've been thinking about AutoGPT for a couple of weeks now, and I think it might be the most important AI development since ChatGPT itself. But there's a…
Wolfram + ChatGPT — The Real Money in AI Plugins
I wrote last week about ChatGPT getting Wolfram superpowers, and I'll be honest — I undersold it. I was thinking about it as a cool integration, a way to make…
ChatGPT Just Got Wolfram Superpowers
I've been watching the ChatGPT plugin rollout with a mix of excitement and impatience — I applied for access weeks ago and I'm still waiting. But even from the…
AutoGPT Is Here — And It Might Be the Most Important AI Development Since ChatGPT Itself
I've been thinking about AI tools for a few months now — building websites, testing chatbots, watching the cost curve drop. But what I'm looking at this week…
I Tested ChatBling — Texting AI Like a Contact Is the Right Move
There's a service called ChatBling that puts an AI assistant in your phone contacts. No app download. No browser tab. No login screen. You add a number, you…