Last week, I saw that local agents are good but slow. Today, I benchmarked the speed and cost. On my

This week, I learned: I know that fact-checking 2000 page PDFs is error-prone, so'd do it

I save prompts and prompt fragments I regularly use with ChatGPT, Claude, etc. (Prompt fragments are

Some ideas on what we can do less, thanks to AI. Why? Because less is more and we keep getting advice

Last year, I shared how local LLMs are expensive. There are only 3 reasons to use them over an

Over the last few weeks, I asked 166 people: What's something you did not ask AI last week,

In 2025, I made a number of predictions on this blog. (Not intentionally. I just said stuff.) I asked

Two months ago, I was impressed at the ingenuity of a lady who used a plastic cover to watch videos

This week, I learned: psub is a neat fish option to treat command outputs like file inputs. Eg diff (

Sugar (or condensed milk) in tea I get often stays unmixed at the bottom. I forget to stir it. Is

I ran, an experiment in Straive. I asked my colleagues to mail me any questions or tasks that they

When I was at school, I assumed that teachers in the staff room would mostly be discussing students,

Many people commented that they liked my comic illustrations and asked how I create them. Here is my

This week, I learned: Kamakoti: "Entry (to the course) is relatively easy but the exit is

I'm a fan of the Code Mode approach - ie letting agents run code rather than narrow functions.

On 16 July, my auditor sent me a draft Indian tax return: a refund of Rs 3 lakhs. I gave ChatGPT my

This week, I learned: I continue to be amazed at how efficient video codecs are compared with

It's amazing to watch the cost of intelligence falling. In Nov 2023, we had college-junior level

As agents get smarter, and when we asking questions outside our expertise, it's pretty hard to

Agents are increasingly the consumers of things that used to be made for humans: Docs are

I track the cost vs capability of LLMs at LLM Pricing - the rough cost to read all Harry Potters (~1M

Bring AI to where people already work: email Lots of companies are putting AI into their chat

This week, I learned: Thinking traces vanished in ChatGPT Work (or did they never exist) and seem to

This week, I learned: Writing is slightly, but only slightly, better than typing (for adult learning.

One of my goals this year is to publish 2 books. One got published. Sort of. Data Science for

At The Curzon Hotel, my key card didn't work. But every time I went to the reception, they'd

In 2007, I extracted the first arc of the Tracer Bullet strips. I didn't realize I never shared

I had Claude Code with Fable create a small scrollytelling map for my 14-minute walk experience at

This week, I learned: How to become an applied AI engineer is a concise, well-written, and

Here's roughly what I said in my When Data is for Agents workshop for Fifth Elephant on 7 Jul