The Daily Prompt: Ask for Ten Terrible Ideas Before You Ask for a Good One
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
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The Brief-Back Prompt: Make Your AI Repeat the Assignment Before It Starts
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
Ideabro Machine Pitches Ten AI Startup Ideas, and a Human Grades Every One
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
Field Notes: I Gave an Agent My Inbox for a Week. It Earned a Raise, Then a Curfew
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
The Explain-It-Three-Ways Prompt for Learning Anything Hard
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
Idea Autopsy: Tutorbee Had 180,000 Sign-Ups and Almost No Students
An AI homework tutor went viral in September and quiet by March. What killed it wasn't the model. It was the calendar, the parents and a missing definition of 'learning'.
by Theo Brooks
What Is a Token? The Tiny Unit Behind Every AI Answer
Pricing pages, error messages and model launches all talk about tokens. Here's what they are, and the four everyday AI quirks they explain.
by Lena Hartmann
Who Owns a Voice? The Messy Ethics of Synthetic Sound-Alikes
A narrator hears himself reading a book he never recorded. Voice cloning has legitimate uses and real victims. A framework for consent, credit, compensation and control.
by Priya Sethi
Field Notes: A Week With a Laptop-Sized Open Model and No Internet Connection
We unplugged from the cloud for seven days and ran everything through a small open-weights model on a three-year-old laptop. It was slower, stranger and more useful than expected.
by Dev Raman
Idea Autopsy: Minutely Built a Great Niche Tool, Then Walked Away From It
A meeting-notes startup found fierce loyalty on construction sites, then left that niche to chase everyone. A post-mortem on bundling, wedges and the danger of going generic.
by Maya Okafor
What Happens to a Hobby When the Hard Part Becomes Optional
Generative tools offer a side door around the hardest part of painting, music and craft. Many hobbyists are discovering the hard part was the point.
by Priya Sethi
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