Voice and vision are probably how we'll interact with AI

The tech stack needed to change how we interact with AI already exists. How it all comes together remains open.

What's happening next to search

Searchable content is becoming more exclusive, and AI is having its SEO moment.

Prioritization, news consumption, and how to use generative AI.

I wrote an article on the role of prioritization in product strategy. Plus some thoughts on news consumption and how we should use LLMs.

Are we just going to be chatting with bots now?

According to the dead internet theory, everyone on the internet but you is a bot. I never believed that everyone online is fake, but a lot of what I see can't be real people. LLMs now make it trivially easy for everything online to be a bot.

Are subscriptions the only way we'll get news?

The double punch of social media and the 24 hour news cycle devalued journalism. I've been thinking a lot this week about where the media goes from here.

What algorithms did to the content experience

Consuming, creating and engaging got bundled. Consuming became mindless. Creating became ostentatious. Engaging became a social expectation.

We're using AI chatbots incorrectly

Large language models by themselves aren't truth machines. When an AI chatbot responds it doesn't know anything. We shouldn't use them like they do.

The medium is the message for social and AI

Content moderation is a red herring and getting practical with how genAI works and will make money.

Post-social media?

We're all talking about how bad we feel using social media. But we're still using it and more than before.

Making sense of tech this week

The Vision Pro, ZIRP, and text-based social media.

Good writing and graphics from 2023

The annual Jealousy List is, as always, stellar.

Transformational ChatGPT, social media reforms, and authenticity on the internet.

Plus how much for you to abandon your morals, your fav Lego minifigs, sunsets and more.

Different ways we interact with digital interfaces

Plus Font Fish, GOAT, David Attenborough narrates your life and more.

Is the internet broken?

Plus a kebab website, working class history, and some games with lessons.

How to use the internet

Plus computer chips, fix your tennis technique, sci fi ideas bank and more.

AI everywhere today. AI revolution tomorrow?

Plus AI simulations, search Wikipedia by vibes, LLM leaderboards and a reverse Google.

Where the social web is going

Plus CloneDub, Writing Systems, Yeti Upsetti and more.

What's the point of AI?

Plus ChatGPT games, Moderator Mayhem, Jelly Gummies and more

The 3 big tech shifts: AI, social web, spatial

Plus AI sims, generative music, Optimus Prime in CSS and our trash.

AI will change things, but we'll probably still have big tech

Plus PlayPhrase, Whichipedia, and Love at First Line.

The inevitability of recommendation algorithms

Plus 💼 They Rule, 🇮🇪 Banshees the Game, 🧟Last of Us Intro Creator, ╌ Morse Chat and more.

Breaking trust

Plus cloud watching ☁️, MissJourney 🤖, rotating sandwiches 🥪, data viz 📈, and more.

#85: Navigating (and paying) for AI

Plus MarioGPT, Wood Wide Web and more.

#84: Everyone lost their heads about LLMs

Plus every Fast movie at the same time, McCheapest, AI Radio and more