by Jonathan | Jul 5, 2025 | AI
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...
by Jonathan | Jul 2, 2025 | AI
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...
by Jonathan | Jun 10, 2025 | AI
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...
by Jonathan | Jun 4, 2025 | AI, Featured
This essay is the result of months of thoughts and now about three years of work with AI (namely, LLMs), and 15 years in the MSP industry. It is an attempt to sketch out the future as I see it coming. This will dive into some of the technical, but as high of a level...
by Jonathan | May 24, 2025 | AI
I’ve been playing with OpenAI’s Codex (online) and Google’s Jules, both asynchronous web-based coding agents. Both start the same way: connect to GitHub, choose a repository, and give them a task to work on. Codex lets you set up an environment with...