Jake on AI
My thoughts on the AI industry as it evolves. Published here and weekly(ish) on my Substack.
Does your mom use AI?
Polling my family and friends to see how and when they use AI
You're tokenmaxxing yourself broke
How to rein in your AI habit and get the same work done on a fraction of the tokens
Don't let your CFO cancel your AI
Frontier AI is getting expensive. It's time to plan around that.
Inefficient AI models are killing us
Is the eleven years of efficiency work on LLMs enough to offset the problems they cause?
Are AI data centers stealing all your water?
Looking at the facts (and fictions) on data centers and their impact on our world
The slop cannons in your engineering org
A field guide to the engineers and designers firing AI agents at every problem in sight
Does threatening an AI agent's existence make it a better gambler?
I plugged GPT-5.5 into prediction markets like Polymarket to find out
Your CEO is suffering from AI psychosis
This isn’t a joke, and it’s becoming a big problem
Claude Mythos is here
Anthropic is restricting access to the model for security concerns. Is this the right call?
Don't dance on Sora's grave
Why the death of OpenAI's video generation model shouldn't be celebrated
Stop saying you use AI
AI use is growing faster than ever (and this means you should stop talking about it)
Claude vs. the Pentagon
A full timeline of Anthropic's complicated relationship with the Department of War
On the future of vibe coding
A conversation with Charlie Apigian on agentic engineering
Agent orchestration isn't just for coders
Using OpenAI's new Codex app to manage a Dungeons & Dragons campaign
Lessons from Nashville’s first Cursor meetup
And: why embracing AI coding may save Nashville's stake in the music tech industry
Detecting AI-generated music
Creating a solution for the music industry's biggest problem
Business and the beast
A conversation on modern AI coding with Khe Hy
Google's Gemini 3 is here
Google puts scaling laws to the test with its new milestone release
The future of web development
How to delegate AI agents to build your websites asynchronously
ChatGPT apps, AgentKit, and Codex updates... oh my!
Everything just revealed as OpenAI's DevDay presser
Sora 2 and the messy future of AI-generated video
OpenAI just dropped Sora 2, and if you thought AI-generated images were disruptive, you haven’t seen anything yet
Getting free access to Poke's AI agent
Is haggling with bots the future of product onboarding?
OpenAI releases GPT-5
ChatGPT gets a major upgrade across logic, coding, and more
The White House knifes AI safeguards
Why the new AI Action Plan is a dangerous step backward for ethics and sustainability
The dangers of AI companionship
From Her to here, and everywhere in between
Your brain on ChatGPT
Cognitive debt in the age of AI and how to stay solvent
The 2025 halftime scorecard
What did I get right (so far) about AI this year?
ChatGPT can’t pronounce my kid's name
The very human side effects of our non-human tech
Google's text diffusion experiment
Gemini Diffusion pivots from the standard language model architecture with surprising results
OpenAI's coding agent is here
The new Codex graduates coding bots from autocomplete to autocommit
Copyright, AI & American politics
The Copyright Office backs licensing, Trump fires its chief, and America’s AI copyright future hangs in the balance
Boardroom AI FOMO
Do executives really get it?
AI-powered surveillance
Big tech's dream is privacy's nightmare
ChatGPT's new memory
What happens to humans when AI doesn't forget?
The pending art crisis
ChatGPT's murder of existing creative work
The modern AI workspace
Why Cursor isn't just for coders anymore
For the love of trees
How Tree-of-Thoughts AI prompting imitates the simple strength of Earth's trees
The death of online work
How AI agents will kill the internet
Stargate: $500 billion for AI
What are the potential implications of SoftBank's historic gamble?
Remember the Titans
How new research from Microsoft might solve AI's long term memory problem
AI predictions for 2025
Technological advancements, regulatory challenges, and emerging trends
Trump's picks on AI
What to expect from US AI policy in 2025
Why OpenAI's new o3 model is a big deal
What the reasoning model's sudden upgrade means for 2025 and beyond
The death of stock music
How AI is replacing human music, and what we should do about it
A guide to AI model collapse
Understanding, preventing, and innovating for ChatGPT's greatest threat
Energy gluttony in the AI age
The dangerous appetite of large language models
California's AI safety bill saga
The rise and fall of California's ambitious SB-1047
AI faces the music
Three prominent legal battles that AI music platforms are facing
OpenAI's new model thinks deeply
OpenAI o1 introduces a smarter, more thoughtful AI
Apple's new phones are all-in on AI
Apple Intelligence takes over the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro
Is AI biased?
The ethical quagmire of modern machine learning
AI and product management
Takeaways from my talk at Vanderbilt
Is AI the cause of the market selloff?
How reliance on AI in trading is making the problem worse
The future of knowledge
How AI is changing humanity's understanding of information
Looking closer: Suno AI
What the generative AI music startup's success means for the industry
The state of generative AI music
What's available now, what's coming, and the legal implications
AI v. Music Industry
What will the future of music copyright look like?
Evolution... or stagnation?
ChatGPT's recent development and potential trajectory
What to expect from AI in 2024
Predictions for what's next and what companies you should be watching
Who will own AI?
Two approaches to the development of artificial intelligence
The evolution of AI ethics
The ever-changing landscape of AI ethics, and what you can do about it
Democratizing AI
Why prioritizing open-source models is beneficial for all
The art of deception
Combating AI-generated text in the age of misinformation
Protecting your intelligence
The evolution of U.S. copyright law and generative AI
AI alignment: OpenAI vs Anthropic
Two kaijus clash on a very public battlefield
Be brief, not prompt
Three ways to hack ChatGPT with micro prompts