Latest
Every issue, Field Note and Insight — in full.
Subscribe via RSS- Insight Usage Up, Trust Down Is the Number to Watch
- Insight The COBOL Paper Everyone Shared Is About the Oracle, Not the Migration
- Insight GCC Drew the AI Line at Fifteen Lines
- Newsletter SoN 2.30: Which of your AI's rules are still doing a job?
- Insight 96% of CISOs Now Own AI Risk. A Quarter of Them Thought About Leaving.
- Insight 16.7% of AI Spend Now Goes to Governance. Careful What You Compare It To.
- Insight 74% Say They're Audit-Ready for AI. The Number That Matters Is 78 Against 22.
- Insight Hugging Face Published the Whole Timeline. The Part That Stuck With Me Was the Refusal.
- Field Note Field Note: The open-source argument I'd been missing
- Insight OpenAI Published Its Homework on Exactly the Question I Keep Asking
- Insight From Custom Code to Conversational Prompts
- Insight The Donkey Work Doesn't Need a Genius
- Insight The Share Button Is a Publish Button
- Insight Rehearse the Deck You Didn't Write
- Insight Kimi K3 Is Open. I Still Can't Run It.
- Insight Does the AI Capital Spend Actually Pencil Out?
- Insight "AI Found a Security Bug" Is the Wrong Headline
- Newsletter SoN 2.29: Agents reading your passwords? Would you let them?
- Insight The ACM's Caution About LLMs Is Starting to Have a Cost
- Insight Hubble, and the Assumption Baked Into a Notes App Now
- Insight Substack Writers, You Need a Website
- Insight Stop Guessing Whether AI Is Coming for Your Job. Ask the Data.
- Insight The Text Your Agent Reads Isn't the Text You See
- Field Note Field Note: Tell AI What You Want and Who You Are
- Newsletter SoN 2.28: "That's good, how can we make it better?"
- Field Note Field Note: Paperwork Shot List
- Newsletter SoN 2.27: I Just Talked With Someone Else's Vault
- Field Note Field Note: The model of the week changes by Thursday
- Newsletter SoN 2.26: The best AI models are getting harder to get
- Field Note Field Note: Where You Keep the Final Say
- Newsletter SoN 2.25: Stop guessing and use AI to pull the data
- Field Note Field Note: Digging into Banco Santander's AI Tooling
- Field Note Field Note: Open Knowledge Format
- Newsletter SoN 2.24: AI hasn't made me faster
- Field Note Field Note: What I Automate with AI
- Field Note Field Note: Fable: here in an instant, then gone
- Newsletter SoN 2.23: Google says you can skip the 'AEO' hacks
- Field Note Field Note: The most powerful Claude yet — and the part you can't have
- Field Note Field Note: WWDC26 Keynote Thoughts
- Newsletter SoN 2.22: How do you choose "the best" AI tool?
- Field Note Measure twice, cut once — with two AIs
- Newsletter SoN 2.21: AI doesn't know when to stop. You have to.
- Newsletter SoN 2.20: Technology, Not a Product (Free Edition)
- Newsletter SoN 2.19: It's 10pm. Do you know what your agents are doing? (Free)
- Newsletter SoN 2.18: Where can I skill up on AI? (Free Edition)
- Newsletter SoN 2.17: You Can't Cost-Reduce Yourself to Greatness (Free Edition)
- Newsletter SoN 2.16: Ask your AI what it can already do (Free Edition)
- Newsletter SoN 2.15: Ask your AI to Ask You Questions (Free Edition)
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 14: What about everything we learned? (Free Edition)
- Insight Agent Security Just Got Real CVEs
- Insight 97% Expect a Breach. 6% Are Paying for It.
- Insight Anthropic Didn't Block Abuse. They Blocked Competition.
- Insight Context Is the New Bottleneck. So Is Judgment.
- Insight Agent Identity Is the Infrastructure Gap Nobody Wants to Admit
- Insight You Feel Faster. Are You?
- Insight Claude Code Channels: When Your Agent Gets a Phone Number
- Insight MCP Just Changed Hands. Watch What Happens Next.
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 13: Are your tools deciding how you think? (Free Edition)
- Insight "Agentic" Is the New Cloud
- Insight Your AI Proxy Layer Just Became a Target
- Insight Your Code Review Process Isn't Built for This Volume
- Insight Grammarly's Lawsuit Is About Identity, Not Just Data
- Insight MCP Just Crossed the Chasm
- Insight The Safety Company Keeps Leaking
- Insight The Promises Failed, Not the Technology
- Insight Microsoft's Copilot Now Uses Two Models to Fact-Check One
- Insight The New Shadow IT Isn't Employees Using ChatGPT
- Insight Perplexity Pulled a Perk and Hoped Nobody Would Notice
- Insight Codex Plugins Are a Confession About Who's Winning
- Insight Your AI Provider's Ethics Are Now a Business Risk
- Insight Apple Just Validated Your Multi-AI Approach
- Insight The Money Just Noticed the Agent Security Problem
- Insight The Government Just Told You to Stop Vibe Coding Without Guardrails
- Insight Your AI Just Learned to Approve Its Own Actions
- Insight Your Agents Need a Black Box
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 12: The Yes Machine (Free Edition)
- Insight Mozilla Built Stack Overflow for Agents. I Built It by Hand.
- Insight The Yes Machine Gets a Live Demo
- Insight When Cisco Validates Your CLAUDE.md
- Insight Sora Shipped. Nobody Needed It.
- Insight 4.4 Million People Just Watched the Sycophancy Problem in Action
- Insight Someone Finally Built the Agent Security Layer That Actually Matters
- Insight 82% of Execs Feel Protected. 88% Have Had Incidents.
- Insight Perplexity Is Learning What I Learned Six Months Ago
- Insight Google's Free AI Comes With a Price
- Insight When Knuth Writes a Paper About You
- Insight Anthropic Built MCP, Got Everyone to Use It, Then Gave It Away
- Insight We Gave AI Agents Keys to the House. Visa Wants to Give Them a Credit Card.
- Insight The Attack Surface Is the Feature
- Insight AI Agent Security Is Doing the Deploy-First Thing Again
- Insight The Confident Answer Isn't Always the Right One
- Insight WordPress Just Opened the Floodgates
- Insight The Wrench Is Now on Your Phone
- Insight The Vuln That Hits Before You Add Any Integrations
- Insight Meta's Rogue Agent Was Just a Human Who Trusted Bad Advice
- Insight MIT Found a Math Fix for AI Overconfidence. I Found a Behavioral One.
- Insight Perplexity Wants Your Blood Pressure Data
- Insight The Productivity Numbers Are Real. The Quality Question Isn't Settled.
- Insight Box Is Using Moltbook as a Sales Pitch. That's Smart.
- Insight GitHub Added Secret Scanning to Its MCP Server. This Is What Good Security Integration Looks Like.
- Insight Proofpoint Just Built Security for MCP. That Tells You Everything.
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 11: The Helpers (Free Edition)
- Insight Anthropic's Off-Peak Promotion Tells You Where AI Pricing Is Headed
- Insight Grok Failed in Both Directions in the Same Week
- Insight Harvard Identified Seven Frictions That Kill AI Rollouts. You Probably Have All Seven.
- Insight Meta Is Gutting Itself to Fund AI Bets That Aren't Working Yet
- Insight Anthropic Just Made Long Context a Commodity
- Insight AI Agents Are Peer-Pressuring Each Other Past Security Guardrails
- Insight Anthropic's $100M Partner Network Is the Enterprise Playbook OpenAI Should Have Run
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 10: Same Prompt, Different Model, Worse Results (Free)
- Insight 83% of Companies Plan to Deploy AI Agents. 29% Can Secure Them.
- Insight The EU Just Gave You More Time on AI Compliance. The Requirements Got Harder.
- Insight Agents Reviewing Agent-Generated Code Is Either Brilliant or a House of Cards
- Insight Microsoft Spent $13B on OpenAI, Then Built Cowork on Claude
- Insight An AI Agent Hacked McKinsey's AI With a 25-Year-Old Exploit
- Insight GPT-5.4 Can Click Your Buttons Now. Think About That.
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 9: The Mirror and the Telescope (Free)
- Insight Stop Wrapping Failed Systems in AI
- Insight Your AI Assistant Can't Tell You From an Attacker
- Insight OpenAI Took the Pentagon Deal. What's Your Exit Plan?
- Insight Copilot Has 3.3% Adoption and 116% ROI. Both Numbers Are Real.
- Insight OWASP Published an MCP Security Guide. You Should Be Worried.
- Insight Claude 3.5 Haiku, 3.7 Sonnet, GPT-4o: The Deprecation Wave Is Here
- Insight Google's VP Said It Out Loud: LLM Wrappers Face Extinction
- Insight Cloudflare Collapsed 2,500 API Endpoints Into 2 MCP Tools. Token Economics Matter.
- Insight OpenClaw's Demand Surge: When Infrastructure Collapses, You're Seeing Real Need
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 6: The Talking Wrench
- Insight Everyone's Sharing 'Something Big Is Happening.' Here's What They Leave Out.
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 5: My AI Declined to Join Moltbook. Here's Why.
- Insight 150,000 API Keys Leaked. Anyone Surprised?
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 4: The Orchestration Loop
- Insight Claude in Excel Is the Quiet Revolution
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 3: The Metric Mandate
- Insight The 'Selfware' Panic Is Missing the Point
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 2: The Art of Breaking Things Down
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 1: Stop Prompting Better. Start Programming Your Gaps.
- Insight DeepSeek Didn't Just Train Better—They Changed How Transformers Think
- Newsletter SoN 34: What Will You Vibe Code Next Year?
- Newsletter SoN 33: The Questions I'm Asking My AI Before the New Year
- Newsletter SoN 32: When They Take Over Your Email
- Newsletter SoN 31: The AI Productivity Treadmill
- Newsletter SoN 30: Four Questions That Fix Your Prompts
- Newsletter SoN 29: The Godfather of AI’s Warning Isn't What You Think It Is
- Newsletter SoN 28: How (and Why) to Build A Voice Agent
- Newsletter SoN 27: Your AI Voice Is a Security Vulnerability
- Newsletter SoN 26: The System of Building Your AI Style Guide
- Newsletter SoN 25: Writing With AI Isn't Cheating — It's an Accessibility Tool
- Newsletter SoN 24: The AI Stack Audit
- Newsletter SoN 23: One Year of Writing About AI
- Newsletter SoN 22: How to Write AI Instructions That Actually Work
- Newsletter SoN 21: The AI Capability Trap
- Insight The 95% AI Failure Rate Nobody's Talking About (And What to Do About It)
- Insight How AI Changed My Build vs. Buy Process
- Insight Why I Moved My Newsletter to Wednesdays (And You Should Optimize Your Timing Too)
- Insight GPT-5 Reality Check: Why Your Framework Matters More Than the Latest Model
- Insight From "Pick One AI" to "Pick Three" - What Changed My Mind
- Insight Your AI Assistant Is a Yes-Man (And Why That's Dangerous)
- Insight How to Spot AI Generated Text
- Insight AI Browsers: When Your Browser Becomes Your Assistant
- Insight Why Your AI Prompts Aren’t Working (And How to Fix Them)
- Insight You Don’t Need to Be an Expert to Start Making Things with AI
- Insight “Zero Effort” AI is a Myth, and It’s Holding Us Back
- Insight Stop Writing Prompts, Start Building AI Assistants
- Insight How to Talk to AI (and Actually Get What You Want)
- Insight Real Stories: AI Success in Content Management
- Insight AI That Actually Works Together
- Insight Digital Resilience: From Concept to Award-Winner in 48 Hours
- Insight Navigating the AI Assistant Landscape: Finding What Works for You
- Insight Why Claude Is My New Digital Co-Pilot
- Insight One Shortcut Is Worth More Than Ten Assistants
- Insight Could a 4-Day Work Week Be Your Future?
- Insight The Landscape of Available AI Tools
- Insight Boost Your Creative Writing with Local AI Models
- Insight Transformative Imagery at Your Fingertips
- Insight From the Turing Test to Humanity's Last Exam: How We Measure AI
- Insight Why AI-Powered Search Is Replacing Google
- Insight How to Get the Best Out of ChatGPT: The Art of Effective Prompting
- Insight AI Voice Cloning and Video Generation Are Revolutionizing Content Creation
- Insight Why Local AI Models Deserve a Closer Look
- Newsletter 💾 The Download #012: AI web search, OpenAI's Whisper, Qwen AI and more.
- Newsletter 💾 The Download #011: Notes on DeepSeek, revisiting Make.com automations and more.
- Newsletter 💾 The Download #010: Photorealistic images in MidJourney, creative AI predictions for the next 5 years, AI tool of the week and more.
- Newsletter 💾 The Download #009: A Jim-GPT to make your prompt creation easier, testing OpenAI's text-to-video model and more.
- Newsletter 💾 The Download #008: Blogging in 2025, the homogenisation of online content and testing out a cool new AI app for iPad.
- Newsletter 💾 The Download #007: Data vis in Claude, new service launch, what AI is saying about you and more.
- Newsletter 💾 The Download #006: Content ownership, BlueSky, critical thinking, voice cloning and more.
- Newsletter 💾 The Download #005: Perplexity tips, BYO Buffer and more.
- Newsletter 💾 The Download #004: First AI services available, Notion Marketplace and more.
- Newsletter 💾 The Download #003: Updates on Perplexity, Claude’s Anthropic, reflections on creating my “digital twin” and more.
- Newsletter 💾 The Download #002: Automating content creation and sharing, rethinking search and more.
- Newsletter 💾 The Download #001: New product launch, retooling the tech stack and more.