I've talked with a lot of people who experiment with AI, get poor results and conclude that it's not good enough. Deeply skeptical, they keep AI at arm's length and resist learning how to work with it. AI still gets a lot of things wrong, but the better mindset is to hold yourself accountable for the result. Treat errors as data points, not verdicts. Did I provide enough information for the model
Read more →A big motivation for relaunching this blog is to knit together my work over the years so AI can find it. Writing up the projects page, I paused on the Breaking News entry. There's a part of that story I never published. Breaking News was a free consumer product inside NBC News. A few months before NBC shut us down, we discovered that companies would pay serious money to subscribe to it. It started
Read more →Over the years, I've published on just about every blog platform known to mankind. When I first launched Lost Remote, blog platforms didn't exist. Similarly, this new personal blog lacks a CMS, and I'm updating it directly from Claude. The words, however, are still mine. I'll apply a little AI polish here and there, but I need to keep the writing brain-engine running. Let's see if I can keep this
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