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When OpenAI launched ChatGPT in late 2022, tech writers (myself included) became obsessed with testing its limits. Could it write poetry? Debug code? Explain quantum physics to a five-year-old?
AI systems can route messages, update records, make decisions, and trigger entire workflows across multiple apps without you touching anything. But as AI shifts more and more from being an assistive tool to powering agentic systems, humans have a new kind of responsibility: making sure nothing goes…
I've been using Claude long enough to remember when the main selling point was that it was a nicer chatbot to talk to than the alternatives. (That's still true, for what it's worth.) But Claude no longer just talks to you about your work; it also does your work for you.
Anyone who lives in the Google ecosystem has probably used Gemini for a quick draft or a fast answer. (Or if you're like me, you've been driven to your limit by the Google Docs popups encouraging you to use AI whenever your cursor strays too close to the bottom of the screen.) But a chat window is…
The concept of "less is more" doesn't seem to have made it to Silicon Valley. Every time I blink, it seems like there's yet another AI agent available on the market.
A few months ago, a smoke detector started chirping while I was trying to sleep. I cursed a little too loudly, plodded out of bed, changed the battery, and… heard the beep again eight minutes later. It turned out to be a different smoke detector in another room that was the problem the whole time.
Gemini is everywhere in Google apps: it can read your emails, pull in data from your calendar, and find that file you accidentally saved to your work Drive.
Two years ago, I took my wife on a wine tour in Fredericksburg, which some people call the Napa Valley of Texas (a claim I find aggressive). After a few too many samples, I started reading the literature and realized I had no idea what white wine actually is.
Staying up to date on the latest AI models is like trying to keep my house vacuumed in the height of my dog's shedding season (a losing battle). New AI models drop practically every week, and it's not exactly obvious which ones deserve a spot in your workflows.
With new problems popping up every day, you need robust solutions to keep them all under control. Even if you have an IT team to build internal tools for you, their backlog is probably full of higher-priority tasks.
You keep tracking funding news. You rotate through trade press, LinkedIn, and keep listening for signals in your network. Somewhere in that rotation, a busy month swallows your attention whole, and one of the companies in your watchlist closes a Series B.
Keeping track of all the new AI models getting released at the moment is practically a full-time job. The GPT-6 models were first released about two months after the GPT-5.6 series, which itself was released less than three months after GPT 5.5—you get the picture.
Google has been in its "Gemini era" for a couple years now, and while the confusing rebrandings have slowed, everything else continues to improve at a rapid pace.
Large language models (LLMs) are what most people think of when they think of AI. They're what you're interacting with in ChatGPT and Claude, they write the code generated by Claude Code and Codex, and they power other AI features like Google's AI answers and Apple Intelligence.
My house has a graveyard. It's not in the backyard—it's a drawer in the entertainment center, and it's filled with remote controls. There's one for the sound bar, one for a Blu-ray player (RIP), two for gaming systems I don't use, and one that might control a ceiling fan in someone else's house for…
At this point, announcements about new AI agents trigger a very "Florals? For spring? Groundbreaking." response in me—which also means I've gotten very good at tuning them out. Muse, Meta's new personal AI agent, almost got that response from me too.
Meta has shifted to a new flagship AI model called Muse Spark and sent the Llama "herd" of models to the farm upstate. It's a dramatic but understandable shift in AI strategy from the company that was once pioneering open models.
With every new model release, Claude tops almost every benchmark. And chatting with Claude makes it clear why: it's good at everything. But while there's power in a back-and-forth conversation, you can accomplish a lot more when you use Zapier to connect Claude to the rest of your apps and let…
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