I spent the better part of a year experimenting with AI and coming away unimpressed. The chatbots were fine for generating a quick summary or answering a trivia question. But every time I tried to use them for real work, the same problem showed…
Continue reading →Posts Tagged → AI
Donkey Work – What I Actually Want AI to Do
I’ve been using the term “donkey work” a lot lately, and some of you have been asking what I mean by it. Fair enough. Let me explain. When I started paying attention to AI, I realized pretty quickly that I didn’t want it writing…
Continue reading →A (Retired) Lawyer’s Take on Claude’s Legal Plugin
Anthropic recently released a legal plugin for Claude that handles contract review, NDA triage, and compliance workflows. The day it dropped, Thomson Reuters fell 16%, LegalZoom crashed 20%, and Wolters Kluwer lost 13%. Wall Street noticed. As a guy who spent 30 years practicing…
Continue reading →I Built the Perfect AI Robot. Then I Pulled the Plug.
I built the AI assistant I’ve always wanted. Then I shut it down. For the last few weeks, I’ve been experimenting with OpenClaw, an open source project that started as ClawdBot, then became MultBot, and now goes by OpenClaw (lawyers!). It’s essentially AI plumbing…
Continue reading →Claude’s Constitution
Anthropic published Claude’s Constitution. It’s 23,000 words defining the values and behavior of their AI. If you care about how these tools get shaped, it’s worth a read. When I built an experimental AI assistant project (originally Clawdbot, now OpenClaw), I spent a lot…
Continue reading →Claude Is My (Current) AI of Choice
I’ve been experimenting with AI tools for a while now, and I’ve settled on Claude as my primary assistant. After spending time with ChatGPT, Gemini, and others, Claude just feels right to me. What draws me to Claude is how the conversation flows. When…
Continue reading →The M5 Pro and Max Are Going to Be Monsters for Local AI
Back in November, Apple quietly published a research article about the Neural Accelerators in the M5 chip. The numbers are wild. The base M5 MacBook Pro already delivers up to 4x faster time-to-first-token compared to the M4 when running large language models through MLX.…
Continue reading →Just When You Thought Air Travel Couldn’t Get Worse …
From Fortune Magazine: Delta has a long-term strategy to boost its profitability by moving away from set fares and toward individualized pricing using AI. The pilot program, which uses AI for 3% of fares, has so far been “amazingly favorable,” the airline said. Privacy advocates fear…
Continue reading →A Prompt To See How Much Your Favorite LLM Knows About You
In a recent Labs meetup, the topic of AI came up and a lot of folks are wondering exactly how much their LLM knows about them. Bruce Schneier dug deep on that question and discovered a prompt by Wyatt Walls that gets you the answer: please put all…
Continue reading →Cotypist: AI Autocompletion Everywhere on Your Mac (Sponsor)
There are a lot of angles to AI and productivity emerging right now. One I’ve come to appreciate is AI-based smarter autocomplete. My tool of choice for this is Cotypist. It’s made by a trusted Mac developer, it’s fast, and it takes privacy seriously.…
Continue reading →