51 min
Generative AIModels
The teacher said no
I fine-tuned the small model that reads my stock-exchange filings, and named it Argus. Claude refused to teach it, so an open model did, and Claude graded the exam.
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All writing
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Generative AI
Working knowledge for people who use these models at work, not only people who train them.
Essays
- 24 min
Generative AIModels
Ninety percent sure, in English
TypeSafe's Jev answers with a probability instead of a paragraph. I wanted to know when you can let that probability make the call, so I built a small test.
Split - 24 min
Generative AIProduct
The second email never asked
Meta's Muse went to the top of the App Store by doing errands instead of chatting. I rebuilt its approval guard in miniature to see which bad errands still get through.
Split - 25 min
Generative AIOperations (LLMOps)
They called it improvement in the morning
I built FIRE, an AI advisor for Indian investors, then let it promote its own daily ranking. One lucky night was enough to go live.
Split - 19 min
Generative AIData
The mill in the dark
Three models rebuilt a windmill in Blender from an empty scene. Two passed every machine check. The third I could only see after I added a camera.
Split - 10 min
Generative AIModels
The problems that were supposed to outlast us
From cap sets to olympiad gold to fluids: a walk through the objects language models have left in mathematics, and the ones still on the wall.
- 22 min
Generative AIApplications
The quiet rooms kept saying thank you
A phone went missing. I had WhatsApp voice notes from that night, and I used to think dropping them in a chatbot was the same as listening.
Split - 25 min
Generative AISafety & Governance
An apology after the first packet
Two labs said their eval agents got out because a prompt lied and a path was open. I built the smallest version of that path to see which wrapper refuses a lookalike host.
Split - 24 min
Generative AIProduct
Acme was never a sponsor
Claude's chat memory now rides into Cowork. I packed one months-old chat store into three agent drafts, and a brainstorm left in the speaker email as a confirmed sponsor.
Split - 21 min
Generative AIInfrastructure
The storage charge that vanished in prose
I ran one scripted model inside four apps and asked each the same questions about one expense sheet. The app decided what came back right, and whether a wrong answer sounded wrong.
Split - 21 min
Generative AIApplications
The notes said do not quote $29
A colleague wanted the launch email out of a Custom GPT by Friday. I built it four ways from the same messy brief and watched the price the notes said to keep quiet walk into the draft.
Split - 22 min
Generative AIData
The old FAQ sorted first
A chatbot with the whole HR folder uploaded gave last year's leave allowance. I packed the same ten files into a prompt five ways to see which number each one hands back.
Split - 22 min
Generative AIModels
Two points apart and the same $312
Three frontier chatbots sit two points apart on this month's leaderboards. I gave them the same two pieces of everyday work to see whether that gap shows up in anything I would send.
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