Genuinely powerful words to live by.

Could this have been a spreadsheet?

GPT-5 is such an obvious downgrade to 4.5 and o3...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

PALPATINE HOLOGRAM: 𝑨𝑹𝑬 𝑾𝑬 𝑶𝑵 𝑻𝑹𝑨𝑪𝑲 𝑻𝑶 𝑴𝑬𝑬𝑻 𝑶𝑼𝑹 𝑸𝑼𝑨𝑹𝑻𝑬𝑹𝑳𝒀 𝑲𝑷𝑰𝑺?

IMPERIAL BUREAUCRAT: Y-yes my lord.

PALPATINE: 𝒀𝑶𝑼’𝑹𝑬 𝑨 𝑹𝑶𝑪𝑲𝑺𝑻𝑨𝑹. 𝑳𝑬𝑻’𝑺 𝑻𝑶𝑼𝑪𝑯 𝑩𝑨𝑺𝑬 𝑳𝑨𝑻𝑬𝑹.

How Mark Zuckerberg plans to change the ad business: "We’re going to get to a point where you’re a business, you come to us, you tell us what your objective is, you connect to your bank account, you don’t need any creative, you don’t need any targeting demographic, you don’t need any measurement."

Tell me that you're planning to launch ads without telling me that you're planning to launch ads techcrunch.com/2025/04/28/o...

The rise of AI is bucking the practice of enterprise software companies charging per seat and instead moving to a usage based model given the high costs of providing AI services.

I’ve always thought this is the fairer pricing model as companies should pay for as much value they get for the service.

I do wish it was better understood by now—especially by folks in the media—that these "warnings" from large AI corporations in fact function as "advertisements"

www.axios.com/2025/04/22/a...

I've done a lot of dumb shit in 2024. Buying an iPhone 16 is up there.

The open web feels pretty dead at this point. Websites without independent distribution (email etc.) or a solid ad budget are toast.

After 20 years of building websites with WordPress, I've finally decided to give @ghost.org a try. I'm just tired of relying on duct-tape solutions for basic things like building a newsletter audience.

In a world of filled with JD Vances, be a Zelensky.

Theory: for every real, human ChatGPT product recommendation prompt, there are 1,000 bot/tool requests attempting to collect all the potential responses.

Worried how many of y'all are launching "Track LLM Visibility" tools right now 😬

2025 will go down as the year when all the subtext became text

Every time

I can‘t remember the last time I‘ve heard someone say “web3”.

I have yet to understand why this is called "hype cycle" instead of "hype curve"