Prompt of the day: the "critique, then improve" prompt
A reusable prompt that makes AI review your draft against clear criteria before rewriting it — with the template, examples for emails, essays and code, and variations.
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Articles & Analysis — Page 9
Deep dives, analysis, features and opinion on artificial intelligence.
Prompt of the day: turn messy meeting notes into decisions and action items
A reusable prompt that turns transcripts or rough notes into a clear summary of decisions, action items with owners and deadlines, open questions and risks.
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The economics of AI: what it costs to train and run frontier models
A deep dive into AI economics: training compute, chips and data centers, inference costs, falling token prices, business models and who captures the value.
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Open vs. closed AI models: the full debate
A deep dive into open-weight versus closed AI models: definitions, arguments on innovation, safety and competition, business strategies and the policy debate.
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Quick take: benchmark scores won't tell you which AI model to use
Why leaderboard rankings are a poor guide to choosing an AI model for your work, what they do measure, and a simple way to test models on your own tasks.
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Quick take: bigger context windows are not always better
Models now accept huge inputs, but stuffing everything into the prompt can reduce accuracy and raise costs. When long context helps, and when retrieval works better.
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10 everyday tasks AI does well — and 5 it still gets wrong
A practical list of everyday tasks where AI assistants genuinely save time, from drafting to explaining, and five common tasks where they still fail and need checking.
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15 practical ways to use AI at work this week
Fifteen concrete, low-risk ways to use AI assistants at work — from email triage and meeting prep to spreadsheets, research and learning — with a prompt idea for each.
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Case study: what a controlled experiment revealed about GitHub Copilot
In a controlled experiment, developers with GitHub Copilot completed a coding task about 56% faster. The study design, results, limitations and lessons for teams.
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Case study: Be My Eyes and AI visual assistance for blind people
How Be My Eyes added an AI assistant that describes photos for blind and low-vision users, what it changed, its limits, and lessons for designing accessible AI.
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AI trends to watch: agents, reasoning, on-device AI and regulation
The structural trends shaping AI — agents, reasoning models, falling costs, multimodality, on-device AI and regulation — and the signals that show which are real.
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How to judge AI predictions and forecasts
AI predictions range from "AGI next year" to "it's all hype". How to evaluate forecasts, what forecasting research teaches, and the warning signs of unreliable claims.
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