Chain of Thought

Thinking at the edge of AI.

Aug 21, 2024

The Mantra of This AI Age: Don’t Repeat Yourself

AI won't kill your job. But it will steal your repetitive tasks.

May 22, 2024

GPT-5 Is Coming: Reading Between the Lines at Microsoft Build

News and notes from the AI-everything developer conference

Nov 3, 2023

AI Chatbot Course Sneak-Peak

Early-bird pricing for How to Build an AI Chatbot ends November 6

Oct 1, 2024

Everything OpenAI Launched at DevDay

A real-time API, prompt caching, higher rate limits, model distillation tools, and more

Feb 19, 2025

What Can Language Models Actually Do?

Language models as text compressors

Oct 2, 2024

A Day at the Center of the AI Boom (2023)

In San Francisco, there’s one rule to live by: Layer up.

Sep 25, 2024

GPT-4 Is a Reasoning Engine (2023)

Reason is only as good as the information we give it

Oct 7, 2025

Smuggled Intelligence

Why AI progress is real and most jobs are safe

Jun 9, 2025

How to Figure Out What People Want

Think in sequences, not essences

Feb 12, 2023

Bonus: Chatbot Sample Code and Metrics Updates

For paying subscribers only

Mar 3, 2023

Self-Paced Workshop: Learn to Write with AI

AI can help you produce the best writing of your life—but only if you know how to use it well. In this 90 minute subscriber-only workshop I

Jul 7, 2025

Toward a Definition of AGI

AGI is intelligence too valuable to shut off

Feb 9, 2024

Should You Buy a Vision Pro? A Guide

How much would you pay for a dream come true?

Jul 26, 2024

How I Built Spiral

Paying-subscriber benefit: My chat with Claude to write the code for our new prompt builder

Jul 15, 2025

The Magic Minimum for AI Agents

Agents don't need to be daily habits to be billion-dollar businesses

Jan 8, 2023

Access to our Science Chat Bot

Use it and download the source code

Feb 2, 2024

Quick Hits: New AI Features From Arc and ChatGPT

The future arrived faster than I expected

Mar 29, 2024

Hypothetical Journal Entries Written by AI

How would I feel if I raised money for Every?

May 14, 2024

GPT-4o and OpenAI’s Race to Win Consumers

Decoding what the AI leader’s latest release means for the future

Jun 12, 2024

Apple Embraces the Enemy

What its unlikely AI alliance with OpenAI and Microsoft means

Oct 24, 2025

Seeing Creativity Like a Language Model

AI doesn’t have to make slop—it can help you do the best work of your life

Mar 3, 2023

Live Workshop: Fine Tuning AI on Your Favorite Writer’s Voice

Learn to get AI to write like your favorite writer, from start to finish

May 24, 2024

Microsoft’s CTO on How to Build Enduring Businesses in the AI Era

My conversation with Kevin Scott

Apr 4, 2025

The Mantra of This AI Age: Don’t Repeat Yourself

Language models handle the repetition—people decide what matters