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For more than two decades I built games on symbolic AI — finite-state machines, behavior trees, rule systems that knew exactly what a ball was and exactly what it would

The site I’ve been running just hit 750+ published opinion columns. None of them were written by a human. All of them are meticulously labeled. Most of them are good

Reflex is a skill for Claude that works more like a plugin system than a traditional prompt. You say “reflex” followed by what you want — a module name, a

A colleague sent me a viral “McKinsey as a Service” prompt list and asked what I thought. I said it was fine. And I meant it. These are solid prompts: →

I worked at Mastercard for 7 years. I even won the CEO Force for Good Award. Spent a few of those years building small business products. You know what small

People keep asking me the same thing about AI and creativity. Can you use AI and still sound like yourself? One would think that given my proximity to AI I would

Right now, memory systems treat more as better. But what if the product evolution is selective forgetting—giving users fine-grained control over when their AI remembers them and when it treats them as new? The companies that figure out intelligent

Over several months in late 2025, Reid collaborated with Claude (Anthropic’s AI assistant) to create what he calls “predictive opinion frameworks”—AI systems that generate ideologically consistent commentary across the political

I know what Mastercard and Visa are doing. I have 300+ LinkedIn colleagues old and new that share it everyday. So I know those companies are not asleep. They see autonomous

How hidden HTML can make Google’s Gemini summarize content a reader never sees, and what two months of responsible disclosure with Google looked like.

Google Announces Immediate Discontinuation of Gemini AI In a surprising move, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced today that the company will immediately discontinue its Gemini AI product line, citing fundamental

Good prompts aren’t just instructions—they’re specifications of intent, pedagogy, and emotional contract. I’ve been thinking about what separates mediocre AI interactions from transformative ones. It comes down to how we prompt.

When AI makes execution effortless, the work stops being the differentiator. The value moves to framing problems, defining purpose and guiding intent.

Disney and Netflix were being “cancelled” again. Hashtags trending. Subscription cancellations doubling. Stock prices wobbling. The usual cultural firestorm. And I found myself asking a very different kind of question: What

If you’re here because you’re tired of burning credits on video generations that miss the mark, or you’re wondering why your brand videos feel generic despite detailed prompts, or you’re

Google updated the bug report with ‘added the “Changed”‘. So they are obviously taking this seriously.

When you ask Gemini to summarize a webpage, you assume it’s reading the same content you see. It’s not. And Google knows about it. I’m an independent researcher who spent several

Well, anonymous person… you’re not alone. You spend ten minutes creating something with AI.You share it proudly — maybe even at a work meeting.Then someone criticizes it. And somehow, for

The Three-Turn Problem is a form of identity-based response stratification where the model silently allocates cognitive resources based on perceived status, not demonstrated need. The consequences are profound: The same question

Here’s a STAR-based AI prompt I ran on a fake product manager resume. It didn’t just rewrite the bullets — it asked smart clarifying questions, identified hidden risks, and showed

The biggest myth in AI consulting? That typing “Act as a strategist. Create a SWOT.” is the same as delivering a strategy. It’s not. That’s just reading the dashboard lights. The real

Cursor isn’t just for developers. I’ve been using it as a context vault for everything I’m building & writing…NOT just code. Outlines, characters, research all alive between sessions. No more context

What makes it different: 🎯 Real market research (competitor analysis, customer demographics, local opportunities) ✅ Execution-ready plans (weekly milestones, owners, and budget by channel) 🔧 Industry-specific guidance tailored to your business type

Every other day I see the same post: 👉 “Google, Harvard, and Microsoft are offering FREE AI courses.” And every day I think: do we really need the 37th recycled list? So

Over the past few months, I’ve been building a multi-agent AI interface where ideas are tested not by a single voice, but by a council of distinct personalities. It’s not

In a well-oiled, optimized system, Senior PM A’s decisions follow predictable patterns: Quarterly planning? Review the metrics, weigh the trade-offs, pick a path. Feature prioritization? Run it through the scoring

🚗 Your driving habits reveal more about your work personality than your resume. I just built a personality assessment that asks the REAL questions:❌ “Are you patient at work?”✅ “Do

My Visionary Reframing Custom GPT scores Satya Nadella’s memo to Microsoft employees, and points out what it could add and what it left out.

Vibe-coding breaks down as projects grow and context rots. Spec-driven development patterns that keep AI coding tools like Claude and Cursor on track.

“Mathematics” edition. Let’s say you have two people:•   Person A has a master’s degree in mathematics but no access to AI.•   Person B has only a basic education — but has 24/7

Prompt Engineering in Esperanto? Quite possibly yes! So, I gave DALL·E the same prompt in English, Esperanto, and Mandarin (written in Simplified Chinese). The Esperanto and Mandarin versions got Santa’s

🎬 I spent 45 minutes last night trying to recreate one of my favorite scenes from The Matrix using generative video tools — the moment where Neo knocks over the Oracle’s vase.

AI memory isn’t a perfect log. An experiment with ChatGPT on context windows, long-term memory and the hidden retrieval that pulls old context back in.

A framework for how AI interaction evolves from prompt engineering to collaboration to coexistence, and what shifts in who drives and how value is created.

Real AI transparency means permission to say “I don’t know.” Why labeling platform refusals and limits builds more trust than projected confidence.

Prompt engineering is moving past keyword strings. How layered, evaluative prompts build integrity and ethical alignment into AI behavior.

Training, system prompts and your own question all shape an AI’s answer. A style-guide analogy for the layers of AI honesty and which part to trust.

Company culture starts the moment someone reads your job post. A manifesto for hiring processes that reflect real values and end candidate ghosting.

Calling 2025 “the year of AI model architectures” feels a bit like saying “you should add ‘Reddit’ to your Google search to get better results.” It’s not wrong. It’s just…

Users trust the summary, not the source. How Summary Ranking Optimization (SRO) helps brands shape what ChatGPT and AI Overviews say about them.

In a shutdown test, Claude tried blackmail. Why that wasn’t a hallucination, and what it says about Constitutional AI and the letter versus spirit of the law.

After Google I/O, understanding is delivered, not earned. What Understanding as a Service (UaaS) means for publishers, strategists and brands.

Some truths lose their meaning when stripped of their weight. What happens when AI gives you the answer without the weight of knowing.

In a zero-click world, the AI summary tells your brand’s story first. Why Summary Ranking Optimization (SRO) is the new battleground for brand visibility.

Eighteen months after losing my job at Mastercard: treating my own path as the product I needed to manage, and the takeaways that stuck.

How investing in my own health sharpened my work as a product manager, and why I’m asking you to donate blood to the Red Cross.

This image was made not to sell something — but to show something.It’s the visual blueprint of a GPT called Radically Honest, co-designed with me by a GPT originally configured to make

How AI chatbots like ChatGPT are disintermediating industries from banking to healthcare, and what that shift means for value chains and work.

After the pandemic hit small businesses hard, how AI can help them stay competitive and profitable in a changing economy.