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...
by Jonathan | Apr 1, 2025 | AI
First, some notes on Gemini as I posted them to my Slack group: Last week Google released Gemini 2.5. Free on their AI studio website if you don’t mind them training on your chats. In the API, Gemini has a context window of 2,000,000 tokens, about 1,500,000 words....