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·AI Tools
DeepSeek, briefly
Frontier-class AI is no longer just a Silicon Valley game. The reason to know about DeepSeek is less which AI you are typing into today, and more what it tells you about where the field is going.
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·AI Tools
Free AI tools worth your time
"Free" is not one thing. There are at least five kinds of free, and they cost you different things. Knowing which kind you are getting changes the calculation.
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·AI Basics
AI as a study partner, not a shortcut
There is a moment when you ask AI a question and don't quite understand the answer. You can paste it and move on, or stop and ask why. Same tool, different relationships.
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·AI Tools
Google Gemini, explained
Google did not need to make an AI assistant to compete. They had something neither OpenAI nor Anthropic had — distribution. Gemini is the bet on living where you already are.
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·AI Basics
Will AI take your job?
Every generation has this question. The reassuring answers are macro-true and personally insufficient. The useful question is harder.
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·AI Basics
Is AI dangerous?
It depends, really, on who's holding it. The question worth asking isn't whether AI is dangerous. It's whether we are.
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·Midjourney
A first month with Midjourney
The first month is not really about Midjourney. It is about discovering what you have been failing to notice about images your whole life.
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·ChatGPT
Getting started with ChatGPT
Most people's first hour with ChatGPT is wasted. That is normal. The first hour is for figuring out how to be wrong with it before you can be useful with it.
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·Prompt Engineering
ChatGPT prompts worth saving
The prompt that works is rarely the longest or the cleverest. It is the one written by someone who knows what they actually want.
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·AI Tools
ChatGPT vs Claude: where each one wins
The honest answer is you will not be able to tell the difference for most of what you ask. Where they differ is more interesting than which is better.
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