Let’s talk about psychological stamina (I’ve been digging into the research a bit – it’s time for the #NerdStuff). I first learned the term when I started studying the COM-B model, and it’s part of psychological capability. Basically, when you want someone to do a behavior, one of the questions…
Large language model AI is getting a lot better. I’ve written here before about a bunch of the problems with it, and many of those have been ironed out, but that may actually make our systems worse. I’m obsessing about AI behaviors and systems right now. Specifically, what are the…
So I had an interesting interchange with Josh Cavalier the other day. Somebody was posting about AI, and I offered up my experience with the accuracy and usefulness of AI in my own work. I said that when I’ve used AI to help with things, the usefulness has ranged from…
Okay folks — I’m only doing this workshop publicly once this year. It will be a virtual workshop on October 9th, 16th and 23rd (2025) with my friends at LDA, and it’s one of my favorite things to do. If you haven’t already taken it, I wanted to highlight some…
One of the things that has bothered me since the beginning of the AI conversation is that most of the discussions of using AI or LLM outputs contains some phrase to the importance of “evaluating the output to make sure it’s correct” or something along those lines. Pretty much any…