AI Small Wins; Real World Difference

AI Small Wins; Real World Difference

I’m deeply skeptical of most commercial claims about AI “personalizing” education—at least in the short term. My doubt isn’t about the underlying technology, but about how poorly it’s likey to be executed. (I ought to write another post on this, because it also shows...
OpenAI Has No Moat (And Sam Knows It)

OpenAI Has No Moat (And Sam Knows It)

This might surprise many, but the state of OpenAI large language models are not far enough ahead of their competitors to be a serious barrier to competition. I use models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google every day. When any one of them goes down, I can swap over to...
Stay Away from Novak Solutions

Stay Away from Novak Solutions

Novak Solutions is a third-party integrator for the InfusionSoft Keap CRM platform. For years, they’ve offered backup and other miscellanous utilties. I haven’t been able to login for months, and they do not answer their contact form or voicemails —...
Give Claude Code Access to Gemini

Give Claude Code Access to Gemini

One of the best things I’ve done recently is to install Simon Willison’s llm tool in my development environments and give Claude Code instructions on how to use it. I set the model to gemini-2.5-pro-preview-05-06 by default, but I plan to try the latest...