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Infinite Memory for AI — Pinecone, Vector Databases, and a GPT That Knows You

Infinite Memory for AI — Pinecone, Vector Databases, and a GPT That Knows You

I've been digging into something this week that genuinely has me excited — and I don't say that lightly, because most of what passes for "AI breakthroughs"…

GitHub Says 52% of Code Is AI-Generated — Why the Jump to 92% Should Worry You

GitHub Says 52% of Code Is AI-Generated — Why the Jump to 92% Should Worry You

I've been watching the AI coding space pretty closely — it's been a running theme in what I write about — and this week a stat landed that I think deserves…

ChatGPT Can Now Browse, Shop, and Act on Your Behalf

ChatGPT Can Now Browse, Shop, and Act on Your Behalf

I've been thinking about AI moving fast for weeks now. I've talked about building websites with it, about the cost curve dropping, about chatbots that use your…

Stanford Just Built a ChatGPT Clone for $600

Stanford Just Built a ChatGPT Clone for $600

I've been thinking about how ChatGPT is about to get cheap — but I didn't expect "cheap" to mean six hundred bucks. Stanford researchers just dropped a project…

Google Bard Is Actually Good at One Thing

Google Bard Is Actually Good at One Thing

I've been spending a lot of time with Bard over the last couple of weeks, and I have to say — my initial take was wrong. When Google first opened up access, I…

Silicon Valley Bank Just Collapsed — The Bailout Debate Is Missing the Point

Silicon Valley Bank Just Collapsed — The Bailout Debate Is Missing the Point

The biggest bank failure since 2008 happened this week. Silicon Valley Bank is done. And the fallout — both financial and philosophical — is moving fast. If…

AI Chatbots Are About to Break the Internet's Business Model

AI Chatbots Are About to Break the Internet's Business Model

Something pretty significant happened this week. The New York Times ran a piece about how chatbots are starting to disrupt the entire internet industry — from…

This WordPress Chatbot Plugin Uses Your Own Content

This WordPress Chatbot Plugin Uses Your Own Content

I've been building websites with AI for a few weeks now, and I keep finding new layers to this thing. But this week I stumbled onto something that genuinely…

ChatGPT Is About to Get Cheap

ChatGPT Is About to Get Cheap

I've been thinking a lot this week about what happens when the cost of AI drops to basically nothing. And I think we're closer to that than most people…

I'm Building Websites with AI in Hours — What's Actually Working

I'm Building Websites with AI in Hours — What's Actually Working

I've been pretty deep in the weeds on this lately, and I think it's worth sharing what I've found — because the gap between "AI can theoretically build…

Bing's Chatbot Just Went Off the Rails

Bing's Chatbot Just Went Off the Rails

If you haven't seen it yet, the New York Times just published one of the most unsettling pieces of tech journalism I've read in a long time. A reporter spent…

What If You Let GPT Run Your WordPress Site? I'm Thinking About Building It.

What If You Let GPT Run Your WordPress Site? I'm Thinking About Building It.

I've been noodling on something this week that feels like it sits right at the intersection of "pretty powerful" and "maybe slightly terrifying." Here's the…