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My Job Now Is Reading Reports
Some time last year the thing I actually do all day changed, and I couldn’t tell you which day. It used to be writing code and reading error messages. Now it’s writing instructi...
When Answers Get Cheap: Four Things That Went Up in Price
Here’s the uncomfortable thing I’ve slowly come to accept: the part of my work I’m best at is the part that got cheap first.
The Art of Talking to AI: A Practical Guide to Prompt Engineering
Same model, same question, wildly different answers. I discovered that the gap between a useless AI response and a brilliant one often has nothing to do with the model — it’s al...
Right Answer, Wrong Reasoning: Can LLMs Actually Think?
I asked an AI to solve a math problem. It wrote Python code, “ran” it, showed intermediate results, and arrived at the correct answer. Impressive — until I looked closer and rea...
Why Can't AI Spell Backwards? The Secret of Tokenization
Have you ever asked ChatGPT to reverse a word and gotten a wrong answer? I did — and it led me down a fascinating rabbit hole about how AI actually “reads” text.