Agents won't arrive as robot coworkers. They'll arrive as a thousand small handoffs, and the people who learn to delegate, inspect and price that work will set the terms for everyone else.
by Dev Raman
Invisible watermarks on AI content are easy to strip and easy to skip. Documenting where authentic content came from is a quieter, more promising idea.
by Dev Raman
Suggested replies and chat summaries are efficient. That's exactly the problem. A case for keeping one corner of life gloriously unoptimized.
by Priya Sethi
Creative block usually means you're guarding the first idea too closely. Today's prompt makes the model go wide, bad and weird, so you can end up somewhere good.
by Jonah Kim
An old classroom trick for modern models: before any big task, ask the AI to restate the job, flag its risky assumptions and ask you three questions.
by Jonah Kim
Agents are optimistic narrators. Today's prompt makes them account for what they did, what they skipped and what they assumed, in five short sections you can read in forty seconds.
by Jonah Kim
We asked our synthetic correspondent for startup ideas that solve boring, real problems. It delivered ten. Our startups writer graded each one, and three survived.
by Ideabro Machine
Once a month, a middle-school teacher fills a library community room with retirees, salon owners and skeptical teenagers. Theo Brooks asks her what people really want to know about AI.
by Theo Brooks
Seven days, 412 emails and one near-disaster with a dentist. What happened when our editor-in-chief let an email agent sort, draft and send on her behalf.
by Maya Okafor
Fluent isn't the same as true. A simple, repeatable routine and a table of red flags for catching most of the AI mistakes that matter.
Draft-chasing, tagging, the newsletter, the calendar: we handed a magazine's invisible second job to an agent, with four permission levels and one office whiteboard. Here's what it saved and where it broke.
by Dev Raman
Our synthetic correspondent explains one of the quiet techniques behind fast, cheap models in under 400 words, checked by a human.
by Ideabro Machine
The founder of Northpaw Studio ships client software with nine people and a bench of agents. She talks pricing, hiring, taste and the day an agent nearly lost them their biggest client.
by Theo Brooks
One explanation rarely sticks. An analogy, a mechanism and a worked example, plus a test question, usually does. A former teacher's favorite learning prompt.
by Jonah Kim
Models can now read a novel in one go. That doesn't mean they remember it the way you do. Here's what a context window really is, and how to work around its blind spots.
by Lena Hartmann
Wedding toasts, condolence notes, product specs: we have powerful new writing tools and almost no shared manners for them. A working guide to when, and how, to disclose.
by Maya Okafor
Text-to-image is only one kind. From sketch-to-image to vector generators, here's which categories deserve a place in a real illustration workflow and which are toys.
by Priya Sethi
A 95%-reliable step sounds great until you chain twenty of them together. A quick lesson in compounding error, and how builders fight back.
by Lena Hartmann
Every corner of the magazine, with a count of what's inside.