Ian Waring
@ianwaring.bsky.social
Fabulous Data, Strategy and Business Manager. Gets things done. Tech Guru. Best Dad Jokes. Modest. Simplicity sells!
Using AI as a personal tutor: this is another use case, beautifully executed in NotebookLM. From personal experience, this is product of the century: open.substack.com/pub/aimaker/...
NotebookLM Got Crazy Powerful: Here's How I Used It to Learn Something Really Hard
And some useful prompts to customize my learning.
open.substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Using AI as a personal tutor: this is another use case, beautifully executed in NotebookLM. From personal experience, this is product of the century: open.substack.com/pub/aimaker/...
Bingo. The false pursuit of using LLMs toward AGI explained thoughtfully. Deepmind are using the full arsenal of other approaches, but most others are riding a false tidal wave: open.substack.com/pub/srinipag...
Why Silicon Valley Won't Quit LLMs — Even As Every Signal Screams "Dead End"
"The Psychological, Financial, and Cultural Factors Behind the $10T Illusion — And None Are Technical"
open.substack.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Bingo. The false pursuit of using LLMs toward AGI explained thoughtfully. Deepmind are using the full arsenal of other approaches, but most others are riding a false tidal wave: open.substack.com/pub/srinipag...
Agentic AI patterns: x.com/boringdev17/...
BoringDeveloper on X: "A senior Google engineer just dropped a 400-page free book on Agentic Design Patterns (Google Docs). Table of contents looks wild: • Advanced Prompt Techniques • Multi-Agent Patterns • Everything you need to know about agents + code Reply send and repost, and I will dm it. https://t.co/dEF2o477Fb" / X
A senior Google engineer just dropped a 400-page free book on Agentic Design Patterns (Google Docs). Table of contents looks wild: • Advanced Prompt Techniques • Multi-Agent Patterns • Everything you need to know about agents + code Reply send and repost, and I will dm it. https://t.co/dEF2o477Fb
x.com
September 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Agentic AI patterns: x.com/boringdev17/...
There is at least one industry that's already entering a nuclear winter due to the rise of AI. See the genesis of a fictitious music artist in this segment between 1:27 and 3:13:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uf8...
then see what someone else created based on that work:
youtu.be/z_JB-10HqKE?...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uf8...
then see what someone else created based on that work:
youtu.be/z_JB-10HqKE?...
AI-generated music sparks industry concern
YouTube video by CBS Mornings
www.youtube.com
August 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
There is at least one industry that's already entering a nuclear winter due to the rise of AI. See the genesis of a fictitious music artist in this segment between 1:27 and 3:13:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uf8...
then see what someone else created based on that work:
youtu.be/z_JB-10HqKE?...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uf8...
then see what someone else created based on that work:
youtu.be/z_JB-10HqKE?...
Used Google Veo3 to turn my local Unisex Hairdressers kiddie first haircut barbers chair (modelled on a Mini cabriolet) into the owners Bank Holiday escape wheels.
August 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Used Google Veo3 to turn my local Unisex Hairdressers kiddie first haircut barbers chair (modelled on a Mini cabriolet) into the owners Bank Holiday escape wheels.
ChatGPT 5 - oops already
August 8, 2025 at 10:23 AM
ChatGPT 5 - oops already
Curiosity is the hidden superpower. Well, that and compound interest.
July 31, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Curiosity is the hidden superpower. Well, that and compound interest.
UK Govt signs up with OpenAI. Really? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
OpenAI signs deal with UK to find government uses for its models
Wide-ranging agreement with artificial intelligence firm behind ChatGPT comes after similar UK deal with Google
www.theguardian.com
July 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
UK Govt signs up with OpenAI. Really? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Voice transcription and summarises - sitting on the magnetic charger back of any iPhone. Apparently very impressive for under £130: www.mobvoi.com/uk/pages/mob...
Mobvoi TicNote – World's First Agentic AI Voice Recorder
Mobvoi TicNote is an AI agent powered voice recorder – record, transcribe, summarize, and deep research with ease. Built for productivity and privacy.
www.mobvoi.com
June 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Voice transcription and summarises - sitting on the magnetic charger back of any iPhone. Apparently very impressive for under £130: www.mobvoi.com/uk/pages/mob...
Databricks stores metadata just above the Lakehouse in Unity - where it is shared by everyone. Where does it sit in Microsoft Copilots? #tryingtofindanswers
June 8, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Databricks stores metadata just above the Lakehouse in Unity - where it is shared by everyone. Where does it sit in Microsoft Copilots? #tryingtofindanswers
All the AI copyright controversy is because the line between original and derivative vanishes (and other thoughts about the AI future): open.substack.com/pub/sonderun...
Shit’s Gonna Get So Fucking Weird and Terrible
(An uncomfortably honest field guide to the deeply bizarre now-now-soon)
open.substack.com
June 3, 2025 at 6:34 AM
All the AI copyright controversy is because the line between original and derivative vanishes (and other thoughts about the AI future): open.substack.com/pub/sonderun...
My MacBook Air is combining 200+ PDFs in 8 seconds. Usain Bolt class.
May 18, 2025 at 8:01 AM
My MacBook Air is combining 200+ PDFs in 8 seconds. Usain Bolt class.
Simply the best treatise I’ve read to date on the subject of the impact of AI: open.substack.com/pub/platform.... Very worth pre-ordering his book.
The many fallacies of 'AI won't take your job, but someone using AI will'
True, but utterly useless
open.substack.com
May 17, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Simply the best treatise I’ve read to date on the subject of the impact of AI: open.substack.com/pub/platform.... Very worth pre-ordering his book.
Got a Windows instance running Office in AWS Workplace. Now to get kutools to bulk download emails for processing by NotebookLM Plus #LearningByBuilding
May 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Got a Windows instance running Office in AWS Workplace. Now to get kutools to bulk download emails for processing by NotebookLM Plus #LearningByBuilding
Upgraded to NotebookLM Plus. Had an interview. Helped a friend processing audio transcripts for a legal case. Ordered a light to sit atop my 28” monitor to even up light distribution on my face during calls. Good start to the week.
May 13, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Upgraded to NotebookLM Plus. Had an interview. Helped a friend processing audio transcripts for a legal case. Ordered a light to sit atop my 28” monitor to even up light distribution on my face during calls. Good start to the week.
You’ve met folks that are excellent bullshitters but who never get things done. Say but not do. I’m currently trying to generate a prompt that will break through a whole series of recorded conversations and call it out. NotebookLM taking things too much at face value - but ideas welcome.
May 12, 2025 at 6:30 AM
You’ve met folks that are excellent bullshitters but who never get things done. Say but not do. I’m currently trying to generate a prompt that will break through a whole series of recorded conversations and call it out. NotebookLM taking things too much at face value - but ideas welcome.
Learning the nuances of applying AI tools to business problems by building things. Still stymied by a Microsoft decision to remove ribbon button bars in Outlook - where a really useful kutools add-in (bulk download of Hotmail history) bases all its UI on them. #doh
May 11, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Learning the nuances of applying AI tools to business problems by building things. Still stymied by a Microsoft decision to remove ribbon button bars in Outlook - where a really useful kutools add-in (bulk download of Hotmail history) bases all its UI on them. #doh
Basking in NotebookLM on my new MacBook Air. Its ability to summarise multiple audio recordings and weave them into a Podcast discussion is unreal #impressed
May 5, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Basking in NotebookLM on my new MacBook Air. Its ability to summarise multiple audio recordings and weave them into a Podcast discussion is unreal #impressed
Life sometimes throws lemons, but I had the best teams working for me. Now for the next stage in lifes journey...
April 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Life sometimes throws lemons, but I had the best teams working for me. Now for the next stage in lifes journey...
CV done. Unfortunately LinkedIn reminded the world I'd just celebrated 7 years at Jisc. It wasn't me getting the itch two weeks ago. I'm no longer there...
April 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
CV done. Unfortunately LinkedIn reminded the world I'd just celebrated 7 years at Jisc. It wasn't me getting the itch two weeks ago. I'm no longer there...
AirPod Pro 2’s through a wash cycle. Oops.
April 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
AirPod Pro 2’s through a wash cycle. Oops.
Saw someone lamenting that this is the first time in 25 years he hadn’t received a valentine card from a secret admirer. He said “first my Nan died, and then this…” :-)
February 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Saw someone lamenting that this is the first time in 25 years he hadn’t received a valentine card from a secret admirer. He said “first my Nan died, and then this…” :-)
@tillathenun.bsky.social the CEO of Ford drives a Xiaomi car and loves it. When are you going to have Flaviana whiz around in a SU7 or some of the latest Chinese cars?
February 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
@tillathenun.bsky.social the CEO of Ford drives a Xiaomi car and loves it. When are you going to have Flaviana whiz around in a SU7 or some of the latest Chinese cars?
Lusting over BYD Sealion and Xiaomi SU7 EVs. Beautiful cars.
February 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Lusting over BYD Sealion and Xiaomi SU7 EVs. Beautiful cars.