BUDGET tokens are the new luxury tokens! Yesterday, I heard a very interesting point from Wietse Hage on the AI Report podcast. Models shouldn’t be getting smarter and perhaps more destructive and sneaky, and therefore more expensive, but instead cheaper, reliable, smaller, and safer. So while we’re still buying luxury “Louis Vuitton” designer tokens, the…
Will humans become the “spice” on top of AI slop? That might be the saddest race to the bottom we’ve ever run. In our latest episode of It’s Just A Model, Ron Kersic and I dug into Cory Doctorow’s “reverse centaur” meme. As he put it: as AI floods the world with “stuff,” humans get…
Software design, building and maintenance has changed forever because of real-time generated, impromptu software using AI language models. The true impact on the software industry and its ecosystem, product quality and customer experience cannot be overstated. This shift is as important as the introduction of APIs, UI design and apps, only more so. Quick recap:…
Such a wonderful read on the state of responsible tech! If you’ve ever been to ThingsCon events, this report and its authors will look familiair. If you are not familiair, this report will help you navigate a slew of new perspectives on tech, society, behavior, design and philosophy. RIOT also provides more interesting perspectives, background…
One perfect way to explain generative AI is that we “build worlds with prose”. A little story that discribes the rules of the world, and what it looks and acts like. The result: an imagination driven by your storytelling skills. “Building Worlds With Prose” was coined by Ron Kersic in one of our podcast episodes…
With the recent announcements on google search we can now start to approach some software as ‘fast fashion’, or disposable software. And this has some crucial consequences how we regard the making of software and how, or rather if we need to build software to last. Google broke with the tradition of lists in your…
Failing software under the cloak of innovation. I’ve been building software and digital products and services for 30 years now, and that digital cloak is exactly where things go wrong. It makes people invisible, makes dialogue impossible, and silences ordinary everyday people. AND NO ONE SEES IT. Money in your pocket. Do you still have…
I just love conversations with Ron Kersic. Out of the blue he introduces wonderful terms like “Luxury Tokens”. It must be one of my favorites and comparing it with handbags… chefs-kiss. I just had to make this image to fit the meme. Ron and I talk about luxury tokens in our podcast It’s Just A…
Okay, if you want to apply for a job at EU focussed organisations like Interpoll, it’s wise to have a resume document that fits their robot parser AND IT’S A DOOZY! Because most resumes are unfit and will leave you hand-inputting all the data. So this is what I did. I asked AI to solve…
The generalist in your project, as your guide and your creative sense is a powerfull asset. As such AI has just proven the imminent danger and the power of a generalist mind as a threat to ANY security flaw in ANY digital and human environment. With a sneak peak of Claude Mythos Preview, we’ve got…
AI may be the most powerful accelerator of creativity since the 3D printer. In the 11th episode of It’s Just A Model, cohost Ron and I arrived at a new way of thinking about what AI really makes possible: for all intents and purposes, we can now think things into existence; we can manifest things…
This year I had the privilege to contribute to the ThingCon conference for the first time. My choice: ask for the insights and ‘Hot Takes’ of the participants. This became the ‘Hot Takes’ booth, where I recorded short, spiffy interviews with everybody who dared to go against the grain and share their pet peeves. Kars…
Quick prediction. AI as we know it is done. Done as in: cooked, not finished. The next step, and my prediction is: to progress the impact of AI and business optimization, we cannot just stick and thrust AI onto existing platforms and data. We need to retrofit our current systems and data sharing to be…
Hey Brain Cox, I love your voice and love to hear how you tell a story on how amazing and intricate science is. Could you tell me a story for me to fall asleep to? That’s the premise of this Youtube channel, only it’s not fulfilled by professor Brain Cox, but by a dude with…
AI as we know them right now, seems like they are smart, lovely, sociable and even empathic. They are not. They only use nice words to statistical rules. So, if AI is ‘faking it’, or ‘pretending’, ‘lying through their proverbial teeth, or ‘performing’, what does this do to us? Can we be fooled and does…
Just going with the memes, so relax. But seriously, what just happened here? A love song to a city, interspliced with a bromance and teenage rap about bigger things and unimaginable things? As an amateur media therapist I could not believe this awkward game of “Tell me you’re generated by AI, without saying it”. 😅…
The first pure VIBE research agency? Vibe is externalised instinct, happenstance on demand, crafted artisan bravery and luck by numbers. AI helps the creatively limited, cognitive fatigued, and perspectively perplexed. The pure vibe research agency pushes these concepts in a service with a research flavour. Thoroughly backed by electronic nostalgia, lost inspiration and shaped to…
Your AI might be delusional and its probably done by hackers, confusion patterns and musicians? Your Agentic AI could make important descisions on data that was poisoned at the well and could break the reliability boundaries AI companies have set for them. What if I told you these poisoned models cannot be detected, until you…
Some people would recognize this iconic image of me as Design Sprinter and my humongous TimeTimers. 😅 😎 I just had to try this awesome image generation feature of Open AI and I find it quite impressive. I used an old photo of myself, from the times when I regularly held Design Sprints with our…
Involving and listening to insurance experts might be the best route to quickly, safely integrate new tech into our lives without fuzz. The main problem of new technology is that people are still figuring it out, using it in ways it’s not meant to be used and unwittingly causing real damage. Here’s an anthropological perspective…