21 posts across Directing AI, Systems & Adoption, Judging AI, Supervising Agents, Work & Judgement
An iPhone update, a developer-productivity report, a persuasion study, and an AI-detection tool landed within six weeks of each other this summer. None of them were about prompting technique — and that's the point worth noticing.
4 min readClaude's creative connectors, ChatGPT's custom instructions, and GPT-5.5's shorter answers all expanded how much you can tell an AI tool before you start. The upgrade only pays off if you fill the room.
4 min readOpenAI, NEC, and Shopify have each committed real money and structure this year to teaching people how to use AI — not to making the model smarter. Five signals from 2026 point at the same bottleneck: adoption, not access.
5 min readMcKinsey's 2026 State of AI survey found only 6% of organizations see a measurable earnings return from AI. Its fix: for every dollar spent on the tool, spend five on the people using it.
4 min readAn AI agent one-shot a working game and a NeurIPS-ready research paper. Both got rejected for the same reason: strong execution, wrong call on what to build.
5 min readMIT Sloan tested AI-generated financial advice against real outcomes and found the quality of the prompt, not the model, decided who ended up ahead. Here's the structure that closes the gap.
4 min readCursor's July 2026 data shows the top 1% of AI users produce 46 times more than the median. Everyone's using the same tools. The gap is a skill — and it's learnable.
5 min readDario Amodei publicly walked back his 'ten years per year' prediction last week and named three specific blockers. One of them is about you.
5 min readMost of the effort in reviewing AI output goes on working out what you wanted while looking at what you got. Three sentences written beforehand turns a judgement into a comparison.
5 min readAI is fast at gathering and structuring, and unreliable at the judgement that makes a recommendation worth acting on. Here's how strategists use it without ending up with a well-argued case for the obvious answer.
4 min readMost agent failures aren't reasoning failures. They're handover failures — the agent didn't know a thing everyone in your team knows and nobody has ever typed. Here's how to find those things before they cost you.
5 min readWith iOS 27, you can route Siri through Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini. That choice is the easy part. The skill is knowing how to frame the ask in the quick moments — before a meeting, between tasks, on a walk.
5 min readAnthropic's CEO flipped his forecast: the 10% AI can't automate doesn't shrink — it expands to fill your whole role. The catch is that most people haven't identified their 10% yet. Here's how.
4 min readAI is strongest on the preparation around teaching and weakest at the judgement inside it. Here's where the line sits, and how to build materials that stay reusable instead of regenerating them every term.
4 min readSam Altman published a 13-page policy document calling for a four-day workweek. You can disagree with every proposal in it and still need to run the audit it implies: which day of your current week disappears if the hours shrink?
5 min readPrompt engineering isn't a secret vocabulary or a list of magic phrases. It's the skill of describing a task precisely enough that someone who can't ask you questions could still do it well. Here's what it actually involves.
5 min readBCG analysed 165 million US jobs. Only 10 to 15 percent face elimination — but 50 to 55 percent are being substantially reshaped. Here is the conversation that data should trigger with your manager this month.
5 min readNot tool tutorials — transferable skills that hold up when the tools change. Here are the ten capabilities that separate professionals who get consistent value from AI from those who get occasional wins and a lot of wasted time.
5 min readCompanies over-delegating cognitive work to AI are eroding the human skills that made them competitive. The risk isn't replacement. It's atrophy.
7 min readThe biggest gap in AI adoption isn't technical knowledge — it's the practical skill of knowing when and how to use AI effectively at work.
6 min readOpenAI killed Sora and redirected compute toward automated researchers. That's a capital allocation signal about which knowledge work skills survive. Three specific ones to invest in now.
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