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Essays on building with AI, AI trust and visibility, and product leadership. The book has its own page.
Topics: AI Trust & Honesty · AI Architecture & Prompting · AI Search & Visibility · Product Strategy & Leadership · Personal Thoughts
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Symbolic vs Statistical: A Game Developer’s Guide to How AI Remembers
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…
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FakePlasticOpinions.ai
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…
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I Built a Skill System for Claude That Scales to 78 Modules Without Breaking a Sweat
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…
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The Difference Between AI Slop and AI Gold Isn’t the Tool. It’s the Prompt Partnership.
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:…
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Mastercard Is Developing the RIGHT Product WRONG
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…
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AI and YOUR Creative Voice from Walter Reid
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…
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The Memory Audit: Why Your ChatGPT | Gemini | Claude AI Needs to Forget
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…
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The Machine That Predicts—And Shapes—What You’ll Think Tomorrow
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…
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The Problem Isn’t That Payments Aren’t Ready for AI: It’s That Credit Was Never Built for Delegation
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…
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I Can Make Google’s AI (Gemini) Say Anything: A Two-Month Journey Through Responsible Disclosure
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.
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Prompting for Partnership: Our Journey into Intent, Pedagogy and the Emotional Contract
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…
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It’s Important to Frame Problems, Define Purpose, and Guide Intelligence with Intent in the Age of AI
When AI makes execution effortless, the work stops being the differentiator. The value moves to framing problems, defining purpose and guiding intent.