Insights
What we’re thinking about.
Short, practical notes on where AI-based systems actually help a small business, and where they don’t.
Import AI 464: Fable writes GPU kernels; AI automation; and analog computation
Most weeks in AI produce a lot of noise and very little signal. Every so often a week produces two numbers that, read together, are hard to shrug off.…
The summary is where your agent forgets
Most conversations about AI agents fixate on intelligence. Can it reason, can it plan, can it write code that runs. Those are the right questions…
Using Local Coding Agents
For roughly two years, the default answer to "which AI should write code with us" has had a single shape. You picked a subscription. You paid a frontier…
The open model interregnum
Choosing a language model for a real product is no longer a question of which one tops the benchmark. The teams we work with are learning that the model…
Launching Health in ChatGPT
OpenAI has begun rolling out Health in ChatGPT to U.S. users, letting people securely connect their medical records and Apple Health data so the model can…
Not everything should be a chat box
The teams we work with keep arriving with the same request. They have watched large language models get good in a hurry, they have seen the demos, and now…