Perspectives
What we share with clients, we share with the world, because in a confusing time, clear guidance matters. Every week, our co-founders—Paul Ford, one of the world’s top tech writers and thinkers, and Rich Ziade, who has led transformations for some of the biggest companies on the planet—explore how AI is changing software, business, and everything else through our podcast, newsletter, and live events, often with fascinating guests from tech, media, and culture. Start with the latest, or dig into the archives. We’ve been at this for a while.
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A conversation with Every.org, Candid, and The CenterCan AI Help Nonprofits Fundraise?
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Sign contracts for free, no login needed.Meet Aboard Sign
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How does the current state of the industry look to a journalist on the ground?Anthony Ha: Dispatches from a TechCrunch AI Reporter
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Paul Ford for NYT Opinion: Anthropic’s I.P.O. is about more than just one company raising boatloads of cash.The Open Secret Buried in Anthropic’s 300-Page I.P.O. Filing (opens in a new tab)
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It’s only a matter of time before we start hacking, well, everything.The Great Firmware Flowering
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The president of Every.org discusses ways that nonprofits can introduce—and embrace—AI.Allison Fine: Making AI-Driven Change Less Scary
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Paul Ford, a co-founder of Aboard and longtime tech blogger, recently built a tool called TinyLittleOffice that puts all the stuff in an unexpected place: the URL. Paul joins the…Vergecast: Files are over. All you need are URLs. (opens in a new tab)
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A panel discussion moderated by Molly HardyWhen Public Data Goes Dark
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Web browsers enable incredibly rich app development—and that’s radically easier than it used to be.The Web Is More Than Enough
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In our new series, Paul and Rich are ready to answer your questions about AI—and beyond.Ask Aboard: AI Security, Bad Clients, and Yacht Rock
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...and it's a perfect privacy match for Signal fans with no logins and local-only storageDeveloper vibe-codes another free Microsoft Office clone for your browser (opens in a new tab)
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Tiny Little Office got a mention in the Financial Times' markets and finance blog.Financial Times’ FT Alphaville (opens in a new tab)
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Paul Ford and Rich Ziade revive the TinySheet concept with a suite of productivity tools that encode document data directly into shareable links, offering a privacy-focused alternative to cloud-based editors.TinyLittleOffice stores documents in URLs, skipping servers entirely (opens in a new tab)
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Tiny Little Office (opens in a new tab)
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For those times when a full-fat editor is overkillTinyLittleOffice, where the link is the document (opens in a new tab)
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The link is the document!Introducing TinyLittleOffice.com
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Translating between politicians and tech with the Center for Shared AI Prosperity.Jason Goldman: From VC Pitches to AI Kill Switches
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It’s important to hear all sides of the debate.An Op-Ed Written by the World’s Best Models
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Paul Ford joined Please Advise host Manoush Zomorodi to talk about AI and the workplace: whether it threatens our jobs, and how to think about using it responsibly to be…Advice About AI at Work | Please Advise (opens in a new tab)
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Business Insider’s internet culture expert breaks down how AI is reshaping our social feeds.Katie Notopoulos: There Are Still LOLs on the Internet
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Observations from recent meetups on Jev and AI’s role in investigative journalism.People Are Reclaiming the Computer
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LLMs are often far too powerful for the small tasks they’re asked to complete. Is the more-contained Jev the alternative?Is Jev the New Shape of AI?
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Ironically, the AI-ification of everything makes this possible—and necessary.I Keep Accidentally Building Search Engines
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Discussing observability in the AI era with the co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb.Charity Majors: Embrace Your Computer’s Chaos
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A more legible, less terrifying explanation for what’s happening with AI right now—and what we can do about it.Humans Are the Only Real Agents
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Tech execs are sounding alarms about the dangerously fast pace of LLM development. Will any regulators stop them?AI Companies Shouldn’t Police Themselves
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A conversation with Julia Stoyanovich and Paul FordWho’s Responsible for AI?
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Just because A.I. is revolutionizing coding, doesn't mean it will automatically revolutionize our apps.A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It. (opens in a new tab)
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How freaked out should we be by the ‘Hugging Face Incident’? Paul Ford appears on Slate's TBD podcast, discussing some disturbing AI developments, and asking for deep breaths from everyone.A.I-pocalypse now? (opens in a new tab)
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How we got the full back catalog of Lapham’s Quarterly online.A Brand-New Archive for a Historical Treasure
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Problems with your boss? Why not fire up Claude and hit HR with a lengthy legalistic complaint?AI Versus…Talking to People?
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Thoughts on Anthropic’s eye-watering market prediction—and how AI companies are like jam bands.About That $30 Trillion
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The writer and editor discusses his new book, AI for Good.Josh Tyrangiel: Media, Moats, and Middle School
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A tour through AI software’s past from the Internet Archive’s Jason Scott.Little Computer People
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Brandon Whichard speaks with Rich, Aboard's co-founder and CEO, about why enterprise AI projects fail without real discovery, why "agents" have been oversold as a headcount play, and why organizational…Your AI Project Doesn’t Need More Agents, with Rich Ziade (opens in a new tab)
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How did Paul Ford spend his summer? Using AI to actually finish a coding project.It’s Fun to Ship Software
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LLMs, NFTs, and IOUs: Are we back where we started?Is AI Entering Its NFT Era?
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The editor in chief of Every discusses automating herself out of a job. (Not really!)Kate Lee: Can AI Replace Editors Like Me?
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A panel on how museums and cultural institutions are using AI, from visitor experiences to behind-the-scenes operationsAI Comes to the Museum
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Thoughts on Mark Zuckerberg’s AI manifesto—or rather, nine blog posts in a trenchcoat.The Shapeshifter’s Little Brother
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LLMs have radically changed the way software is built—so why aren’t we seeing tons of cool new products?Why Is It So Hard To Ship With AI?
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Has the new AI made the old AI relevant again?Triple Threat
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A conversation with the co-founder and CEO of the Advanced AI Society.Tricia Wang: Verification and Trust in the AI Era
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Building the vaporwave screensaver of my dreams.Summertime Software
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It might sound like ranting, but the Palantir chief is zeroing in on the truth of our AI moment.Karp Carping: Decoding Palantir’s Whole Deal
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A conversation with Josh Hadro and Paul Ford on how to use AI to unlock library archivesDatabases for the People
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What if you cold-emailed things people actually might want?The Other AI Content Paradox
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A Silicon Valley priest discusses advising Anthropic and Pope Leo’s AI encyclical.Father Brendan McGuire: Bringing AI to Church
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The clash between Bun, Zig, and Anthropic is about more than online drama.The Big Bun Fight
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Silicon Valley “disruption” is at odds with the way software creation works—and that’s a problem.AI Unicorns Don’t Exist
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We won’t get the A.I. regulation we deserve until we change how we think about the right to code.Code Is Free Speech. Seriously. (opens in a new tab)
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Muskism breaks down Musk’s world via his actions—but doesn’t illuminate why some still seem to love him.Elon Musk as a Philosophy
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A New York Magazine tech reporter discusses covering an AI flash in the pan.John Herrman: The Declawing of OpenClaw
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Tech’s disconnect with the real world is a feature, not a bug—but when it comes to AI, that’s a big problem.Maybe the Valley Could Listen a Little
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The longtime nonprofit executive discusses the real ways AI could transform the sector.Traci Donnelly: Using AI to Make an Impact
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My favorite remains “agentrification.”More New Words for New Work
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Is the AI era destined to make our software lives nasty, brutish, and short?LevAIthan? A Hobbesian Look at AI
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A panel on AI, craft, and the next era of product designDesign Beyond the Prompt
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You don’t always want AI. Here’s why.Planes, Trains, and Conversational Interfaces
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Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic, sits down with Paul Ford to discuss how AI has changed software.How AI Is Changing Code – Paul Ford with Nicholas Thompson (opens in a new tab)
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The author and entrepreneur on his new book Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad... and How Great Companies Stay Great.Eric Ries: Lean Startup to Tech Ethicist
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It’s easier to build software than ever before—but what are you supposed to do with the things that are left over?Assembly Lines vs. Red Pens
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Hosts Eli Woolery and Aarron Walter chat with Paul about the strange paradox of AI that makes ideation blindingly fast but leaves the hard work of product thinking as slow…Paul Ford on why everything is changing (but not how you think) (opens in a new tab)
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Can Paul and Rich go half an hour without bringing up the term?Challenge: Don’t Mention AI
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After the bubble pops, it will be like Times Square on January 1st.The AI Hangover Will Be Delightful
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Sure, AI might bring on the end times—but you can use it to build your own tax software.Craig Mod: Vibe Coding Towards the Apocalypse
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A conversation with Josh Tyrangiel, Paul Ford, and Rich ZiadeCan AI Be Good?
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Your interactive C-suite demo memo is not going to get you the results you want.Dear Vibe-Coding CEO: Please Stop
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Doctors might be using AI to cut down on paperwork, but should these tools really be used in clinical settings?Kamal Menghrajani: The Limits of AI Healthcare
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All Polly asks for is a monthly quota of crackers (the $200 pro max plan).But I Love Stochastic Parrots!
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A recent report from CircleCI shows the advantages of this technology are not equally distributedWhy AI Makes Things Worse for Enterprise Teams
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Why the future of software is “good loops”Distrust, Then Verify
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The New Yorker staff writer breaks down his recent profile on the head of OpenAIAndrew Marantz: What’s Wrong With Sam Altman?
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Riffing on my recent New York Times Opinion pieceCan AI Companies Be Tamed?
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A panel on how AI investment in healthcare has shifted and where it’s headedHow AI is Shaping Investor Thinking in Healthcare
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By now you’ve probably heard of “vibe coding”: creating software from scratch by prompting AI to generate the source code for you, instead of writing it...AI Can Make Software Now. That Changes Everything, with Paul Ford (opens in a new tab)
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What Paul learned building a newsletter with AIBreaking: Software Work Still Difficult
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AI was never meant to replace humans, it was supposed to be an add on. It's down to how the tool is being used. Not the tool itself.This Is How We Get Moral A.I. Companies (opens in a new tab)
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Are you ready for Zoho-ification?Claude Design Just Wants You to Stop Burning Tokens
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The author of The Country of the Blind discusses what he dubs “the blind vibe-coding revolution”Andrew Leland: Hacking Disability with AI
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“I Can’t Believe It’s Not Software!” Paul Ford on AI and the Asterisk* (opens in a new tab)
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You can’t bet on beating LLMs, but your connection with people still matters most.AI Destroys Moats
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Are consultants being asked to automate themselves out of a job?The AI Consulting Paradox
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Businesses thrive on things like network effect and efficient scale. How are the AI companies stacking up?Know Your Moat!
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The co-founder and CEO of Hidden Door discusses designing games in the AI eraHilary Mason: Product First, Then AI
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Hope you like security warnings!The Ghost Effect
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AI is blurring the distinctions between disciplines. Do we need a new way to talk about work?New Words for a New Industry
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The majority of AI projects fail because we’re using these tools the wrong way.The New Bot Should Clean up the Old Bot’s Mess
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Should we all be setting up companies full of bots? The host of Shell Game weighs in.Evan Ratliff: Preparing for a Ridiculous Future
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You can predict how someone will feel about AI based on how much of their life is spent inside of a bureaucracy.Don’t Mix Up Artifacts With Processes
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A conversation with Dan Shipper, Paul Ford, and Rich ZiadeTech, AI, and NYC
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With AI drastically cutting delivery times in tech and beyond, how should practitioners price their time?Expertise Matters More Than Ever
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The future of code is exciting and terrifying (opens in a new tab)
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A.I. Is a Hyperobject (opens in a new tab)
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What is Aboard today? Call it a praygency—product plus agency, powered by AI.And Now, a Word From Our Sponsor!
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The CEO of Emme discusses how AI can help heal our broken healthcare system.Erynn Petersen: Fixing Healthtech, One Bill at a Time
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As orgs resist change, leadership needs courage and humility to embrace what’s coming.Advice for the AI Revolution
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Should product managers feel threatened by AI, or empowered by it?Product Is More Than Prompts
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Did someone actually do something cool with AI?Born to Runtime
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Public opinion on LLMs varies widely—but how do the people who work on them think about AI?Gideon Lewis-Kraus: How Anthropic Sees Claude
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Newsletterist published in local paper.My New York Times Op-Ed on Vibe Coding
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We're entering a new renaissance of software development. We should all be excited, despite the uncertainties that lie ahead.The A.I. Disruption We’ve Been Waiting for Has Arrived (opens in a new tab)
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Anthropic founder Dario Amodei wants AI to be regulated. Will anyone listen?Can Tech CEOs Be Thoughtful?
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Assessing the ways product management is changing in the AI eraTaking Your Turn
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Is Moltbook merely a novelty, or does it contain bigger ideas about the future of tech?Robot Reddit Wants Your Passwords
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And do we need to care about them?What Are World Models?
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AI is poised to transform the healthcare sector. What does that mean in practice?Docs Heart Bots
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The two big lies of AI—and the third way that works.I Can Finally Afford a Butler…But I Might Get Fired
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“I built it in six hours. Let’s deploy it to production!”Yelling at Vibe Coders
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Maybe software can help with the suck, even if it sucks to further institutionalize the suck with swarms of suck agents doing suck work.What Is AI Healthtech Exactly?
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When does AI actually move the needle on quality, cost, or access?AI in Healthcare
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Claude Code has emerged as a true development tool—but will non-tech people actually use it?Are We All Developers Now?
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What are the risks when everyone can produce code?Four AI Coding Horsemen of the Apocalypse
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Etsy’s Chief Product and Technology Officer talks about the organization’s AI transition.Rafe Colburn: Building Etsy in the AI Era
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AI is your general contractor, and you are the architect.Triple-A Vibe Coding
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Society-wide transformation or incremental change? Predictions on the coming year in AI.Totally Prepared for 2026
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The power of LLMs to help build software is finally being realized—sometimes!The State of Vibecoding
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Stories that caught our eye at the end of the year.Fun Things to Read
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The New Consumer founder breaks down how AI is transforming what we buy—and how we buy it.Dan Frommer: Consumers in the Age of AI
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Getting determined about AI and determinism.Don’t Waste a Miracle
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A look at how AI is reshaping advertising and agency work
The AI Effect
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Traversing the always-changing AI landscape, from Christian LLM Gloo to OpenAI’s erotic turn.God, Sex, and AI
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Individuals might be seeing huge gains with AI programming, but organizations aren’t there—yet.Why My Co-Founder Paul Is Totally Wrong About Everything
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Anthropic’s Newest Model Blew This Founder’s Mind — And Made Him Uncomfortable (opens in a new tab)
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The author of the popular “Read Max” newsletter discusses AI’s role in his own work—and in the culture at large.Max Read: Reporting on the Big, Bad Internet
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Retro Tech, New AI, and the Blackmailing Bot — With Paul Ford (opens in a new tab)
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How the power of my pure nerdery vanquished the mighty AI.I Broke Claude Code’s Will to Live
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The AI industry teeters on the edge of the bubble, but AI tools are better than ever. What does this mean for the future of the technology?(AI) Bubble Trouble
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Is the AI Bubble About to Pop? (opens in a new tab)
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I built five projects in a weekend…but at what cost? ($150)Claude Code for Web Ruined My Brain
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As people feed their whole lives into LLMs, a trust and safety expert breaks down how users can protect themselves.Arushi Saxena: Can We Trust AI?
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AI can be transformative, but you’ve got to put the work in.In My Skills Era
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Big tech doesn’t care about medium-sized businesses—but is AI really the solution?Why the Software Industry Hates Your SMB
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Lessons from startup founders
Resilient by Design
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AI agents are being sold as a solution to bad organizational habits—but they often make them worse.Paying Off Your Procedural Debt
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Paul Ford Eases Steve’s Real Panic About Artificial Intelligence (opens in a new tab)
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AI is making job hunting near-impossible on both sides of the hiring equation. Is there a way out of this automated mess?Bots Ate My Resume
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The Argument for Letting AI Burn It All Down (opens in a new tab)
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OpenAI and Anthropic are broadening their offerings—and coming for the companies building on top of their APIs.The AI Behemoths Go Horizontal
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Traffic to vibe-coding tools is plummeting. Financial analysts are invoking 1929. Is the big AI crash inevitable?Of Course There’s an AI Bubble
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With AI, a rule of thumb is emerging: More to less? Then you’re blessed. Less to more? Shut the door.Good Bot, Bad Bot
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AI videos from tools like Sora and Meta’s Vibes are flooding our feeds. Is this the future?Welcome to Slopworld
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Last year, Eric Schmidt made some dramatic claims about what AI could build. Have his predictions come true?Checking In on the Magic
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New Yorkers don’t want what Silicon Valley is selling—but will the general consumer bite?NYC Sends AI Packing
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How to Fix AI with Paul Ford (opens in a new tab)
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When it comes to AI-powered shopping, dialogue only gets in the way.This Conversation Is Over
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The big tech CEOs are openly embracing Trump. What do we do now?Tech’s Hard-Right Turn
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On Cloudflare’s very surprising ideas about AI and the future of web publishing—and what we should do instead.Paywalls Victorious
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Searching for non-AI tech stories, and grappling with how to teach kids about LLMs.Bots, Feeds, and Kids
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Plus: A breakdown of AI-related things tech giants are currently building.Some Useful Links: AI Data Licensing, Vibe-Coding Cleanup, and More
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Will AI put an end to management consulting? Maybe hold off on writing that obituary.The Billable Hour is Dead
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Code needs structure. Specification-driven development is the evolution AI programming has been waiting for.Put Your Specs On
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Millions of people are using AI tools to search. What does that mean for search engines?Is Search Really the Future of AI?
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What to expect from AI in the coming year—and how your business can stay aheadQ1-Q4 AI
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Solving all of your LLM problems with just nine words.The Three Sacred Guardrails of AI
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How should the business leaders of the future think about AI? A conversation with the head of UW’s AI Hub for Business.Matt Seitz: MBA…I?
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When it comes to the vast behemoths of business and government, this technology is a grease for the world’s biggest gears.AI Is a Power Tool for Bureaucracy Freaks
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Can anyone agree on what AGI means? Searching for a definition in the final installment of “AI Summer School.”AI Summer School #4: Chill Out About AGI
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“Lumbering, unsexy, but essential.” There’s no higher praise.Fast Company on Aboard: It’s a Vibe Product! And It Works!
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What can you build with your AI agents? Spinning up a sample app with Aboard CTO Adam Pash.AI Summer School #3: From Agents to Apps
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A review of OpenAI’s latest big release, ChatGPT 5.Desperately Seeking Software
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In our next AI lesson, we break down agents with Aboard’s Director of Engineering Kevin Barrett.AI Summer School #2: Call My Agents
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Karen Hao’s Empire of AI is less about computers becoming human—and more about humans being very human.AI’s Hot, Hot Mess
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The first in our four-part series teaching you everything you need to know about AI.AI Summer School #1: How LLMs (Don’t) Think
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Using AI to code is like looking into a mirror-world: The LLM generates meaninglessness that you turn into something useful.Language (and Code) Without Thought
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Mapping the history of the universe—and the limits of current AI programming tools.Timing My Vibe Coding
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With spec-first approaches, we’re trying to bring order to AI coding by creating a set of rules and processes.A Legal Framework for Understanding Bad AI-Generated Bugs
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How do you build for the future amid ongoing instability?The View from the Lebanese Tech Scene
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The key thing missing from most AI conversations is a hyper-specific focus on what these tools do well.20 Percent Slower Is a Good Start!
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AI is a great first step, but to really build software, you need people to get the job done.Why We Made Aboard Human-First
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Success may come when the bot is prompting the human, not the other way around.Four Billion Years of Vibe Coding
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How does Aboard build software with AI? Paul and Rich walk through the process.Reintroducing Aboard
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A simple step-by-step breakdown of how we build software—first in minutes, then in weeks.How Aboard Works: An Illustrated Guide
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Same as it ever was: A spin through tech history via a 1980 issue of Omni magazine.A Blast From Computing Past
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AI can’t understand why something needs to be built—but software engineers can.The AI Future Belongs to Those Who Zoom Out
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As the legacy tech giants weave AI through their existing systems, is it all over for OpenAI and Anthropic?Tech Giants Want AI to Behave
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They’ve been taking their time with AI, but at WWDC this week, Apple laid out their vision of the future.Apple Takes Its Bite
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When is something “done”—and why is it so hard to define “done” when it comes to AI?Artificial Intelligence/<wbr>Artificial Deadlines
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Is AI a big scam, or will our jobs be on the chopping block by 2026?The Extremely Human Last Mile
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OpenAI’s deal with Jony Ive is grabbing headlines, but the real shifts in AI right now are less flashy—and point towards more industry stability.OpenAI Goes Shopping
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Paul Ford and Rich Ziade talk about building software in the age of AI
More Than Vibes
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“Model Context Protocol” brokers peace between old tech and new. It’s a good thing the AI giants are embracing it.Will AI Eat Tech, or Will Tech Eat AI?
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The CEO comes into the office and says, “What are we doing about AI?” What’s wrong with this picture?AI Advice for the Confused CEO
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Is AI replacing programmers or not? Should coders learn to write poems? What’s really going on?MS Blurred: Microsoft’s AI Path Gets Slippery
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Klarna went AI-first—but now, they’re hiring humans again. Is tech’s AI pendulum swinging back?Help Wanted: AI-First Companies Need Humans After All
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With AI, the SaaS funnel can start with custom product delivery—and then you sell the relationship.The Funnel of the Future is Upside Down
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Today’s young people are growing up with generative AI at their fingertips. Should we be worried?School’s Out Forever
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Let’s stop trying to make computers human and get back to making them awesome.Is “Specification Repair” the AI Endgame?
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IT Brew founding editor Patrick Austin offers a critical view on generative AI.Patrick Austin: AI’s Not There Yet
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The three critical ingredients of design that are missing from vibe coding.You Can’t Build on Vibrations Alone
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Are product managers’ jobs safe in our new AI-development reality?A Database Will Never Love You
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Better behavior, on demand.Using AI to Redirect Yourself—and Save Money!
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Does AI have a place in religion—or in our moral decision-making more broadly?Could We Replace the Pope With AI? (God, No)
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Reading between the lines of the AI industry in 2025.The Prophets and the Giants
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AI use is now mandatory for Shopify employees. Paul and Rich discuss why this is a good directive for every worker.AI is Part of Your Job Now
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AI’s relationship to the web is complicated—but I’m placing a bet on who will win.The Spiders Versus the Web
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How are the founders of an AI startup thinking about the months ahead, and how can AI help businesses weather the storm?The Big Crash
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In tech, the money is in innovation, but the careers are in predictability.The More Things Change
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AI is boring now! And that’s a good thing.Boring is Thrilling
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You have to choose which steps to skip, and when to slow down.Bad Vibes Coding
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Is the prompt the end state of engaging with AI, or will the way we interact with these tools continue to evolve?Prompts, Promptly
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These good ideas will seem trivial to accomplish using AI—and then you’ll be living through the back half of Goodfellas.The Zeno Effect
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How is AI changing engineering software? A conversation with Shortcut CEO Kurt Schrader.Kurt Schrader: Shipping AI at Shortcut
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No matter where people are on the spectrum of beliefs, most of them seem to agree: This matters.Accepting All the AI Opinions
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AI haters think it’ll destroy everything. AI lovers want to press their feet on the gas pedal. What happens if you’re stuck in the middle?The AI Centrist
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The huge challenge in talking about AI that no one is talking about.The $15 Volvo
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What should developers be doing right now to adapt to AI? Sara Chipps gives an on-the-ground perspective.Sara Chipps: How AI Changes Coding
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AI is a strange, powerful vehicle, and it works best when you stay in the driver’s seat.Keep Your Hands on the Wheel!
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Is it too late to regulate AI? Assessing what “regulating AI” might mean, both in general and given the new American administration.AI Regulation (and Disregulation)
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I don’t know what the “AI center” looks like, but I hope we eventually can find it.Hegel on the Death Star
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How is generative AI transforming the university? A conversation with Clay Shirky, the Vice Provost of Educational Technologies at NYU.Clay Shirky: AI for Higher Education
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Notes on the Catholic response to AI.God Gets Involved
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Elon Musk’s DOGE team strategy seems to be “destroy without oversight, replace with AI.” Could this actually work?Waiting for the DOGE Barbarians
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AI keeps getting weirder, plus some great bonus links.DeepSeek Threatened With WhaleJail
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How is AI transforming the social sector? A conversation with Perry Hewitt, Chief Marketing and Product Officer for Data.org.AI as an Accelerant for Good
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There goes the economy! Whoops it’s back!Desperately Seeking DeepSeek
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Chinese LLM company DeepSeek has been wreaking havoc on the stock prices of the American tech sector. What exactly is going on?Don’t Freak About DeepSeek
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I can’t really understand LLMs unless I keep taking steps backwards.Use Worse Tools
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AI tools are often positioned as agents, assistants, or butlers—but their potential is so much greater than that.Brains Are Better Than Butlers
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I bet you think you know what the dragon is, but you’ll be surprised.Where’s the Dragon?
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Can you actually build an app with AI right now? Paul reports back from a holiday break where he attempted to do just that.Not Quite Finishing Apps
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The secret, as always, is rehearsal.Software Theater
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Does the world actually need more software? When it comes to small and medium organizations, the answer is a resounding yes.We Need More Software
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Like thrift stores, the new AI systems are chaotic, weird—and ultimately human.The Eternal Thrift Store
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Farewell 2024—a boring year in which nothing happened! Paul and Rich reflect on the state of the world, and how they manage instability.A Year of Chaos Concludes
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AI needs mentorship, not commands. Here’s how we can help it—and ourselves—grow.Treat AI like Al Pacino in Any Given Sunday
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A recent survey of white-collar employees shows workplace AI adoption has stalled. What does this suggest about the current moment in tech?Employees Don’t Care About AI
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Some thoughts on AI at the end of 2024—and one great link about the beauty of non-AI tech.Nobody Knows Anything (Still)
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The robots bring the pink slip…for Aboard’s CEO! What can software “translators” bring to the world of AI-accelerated development?AI Fires Our CEO, Rich
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Teaching robots, brutalist architecture, saving squirrels, and more.A Few Quick AI Links Before Thanksgiving
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What should a UX researcher learn right now so they’re ready for the AI future?Career Advice for a UX Researcher
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AI and the career ladder, big tech’s training data struggles, and more.AI Links, Now With Commentary
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AI is on the verge of utterly transforming the software industry, but how quickly will that change come?Things Keep Getting Faster
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The computer gives us information we can process and use—and then we decide what gets written down.Crunching the AI Numbers
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Can we use AI to start building things that help people make sense of the world?What’s the Opposite of AI Slop?
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Non-profits often pay high prices for imperfect software solutions. How will AI-accelerated development change that landscape?Can AI Save NGOs Tons of Money?
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Claude’s new “computer use” feature is reassuringly janky—you can see all the pieces clanking noisily along.A Comforting Software Mess
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The Biden administration issued their first-ever memo on AI and national security. What does it say about the U.S. government’s stance on AI?Robots Take Over, Get Regulated
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An AI tutorial from Ethan Mollick, a helpful tool from Google, and more.Three Quick, Useful AI Links
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How has public perception of AI changed over the past two years? Josh Tyrangiel talks about his Washington Post column on AI.Explaining AI with Josh Tyrangiel
Meet Aboard Sign
The Great Firmware Flowering
The Web Is More Than Enough
Introducing TinyLittleOffice.com
An Op-Ed Written by the World’s Best Models
People Are Reclaiming the Computer
I Keep Accidentally Building Search Engines
Humans Are the Only Real Agents
A Brand-New Archive for a Historical Treasure
About That $30 Trillion
Little Computer People
Is AI Entering Its NFT Era?
The Shapeshifter’s Little Brother
Triple Threat
Summertime Software
Anthony Ha: Dispatches from a TechCrunch AI Reporter
Allison Fine: Making AI-Driven Change Less Scary
Ask Aboard: AI Security, Bad Clients, and Yacht Rock
Jason Goldman: From VC Pitches to AI Kill Switches
Katie Notopoulos: There Are Still LOLs on the Internet
Is Jev the New Shape of AI?
Charity Majors: Embrace Your Computer’s Chaos
AI Companies Shouldn’t Police Themselves
AI Versus…Talking to People?
Josh Tyrangiel: Media, Moats, and Middle School
It’s Fun to Ship Software
Kate Lee: Can AI Replace Editors Like Me?
Why Is It So Hard To Ship With AI?
Tricia Wang: Verification and Trust in the AI Era
Karp Carping: Decoding Palantir’s Whole Deal
Can AI Help Nonprofits Fundraise?
When Public Data Goes Dark
Who’s Responsible for AI?
AI Comes to the Museum
Databases for the People
Design Beyond the Prompt
Can AI Be Good?
How AI is Shaping Investor Thinking in Healthcare
Tech, AI, and NYC
AI in Healthcare
The State of Vibecoding
The AI Effect
Resilient by Design
Q1-Q4 AI
More Than Vibes
The Open Secret Buried in Anthropic’s 300-Page I.P.O. Filing (opens in a new tab)
Vergecast: Files are over. All you need are URLs. (opens in a new tab)
Developer vibe-codes another free Microsoft Office clone for your browser (opens in a new tab)
Financial Times’ FT Alphaville (opens in a new tab)
TinyLittleOffice stores documents in URLs, skipping servers entirely (opens in a new tab)
Tiny Little Office (opens in a new tab)
TinyLittleOffice, where the link is the document (opens in a new tab)
Advice About AI at Work | Please Advise (opens in a new tab)
A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It. (opens in a new tab)
A.I-pocalypse now? (opens in a new tab)
Your AI Project Doesn’t Need More Agents, with Rich Ziade (opens in a new tab)
Code Is Free Speech. Seriously. (opens in a new tab)
How AI Is Changing Code – Paul Ford with Nicholas Thompson (opens in a new tab)
Paul Ford on why everything is changing (but not how you think) (opens in a new tab)
AI Can Make Software Now. That Changes Everything, with Paul Ford (opens in a new tab)
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