Hey, I'm Jeff.
Co-host of What the AI?! podcast. I write about AI, technology, and the choices we're making with both. Previously: Upstart (founding team), Google.
Latest Posts
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Stop Using Your Agent Like a Search Box
Recently a consulting firm sent me an invoice. My agent saw it, reviewed the attached PDF, found an email conversation that listed a different number of hours, highlighted the discrepancy for me, and offered to draft and send a message to the firm questioning the bill. I didn’t ask it to do any of this. Honestly, I likely would have missed the discrepancy myself.
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A Good Question, a Bad Bill
Bernie Sanders wants the public to own half of the big AI companies. His bill would hit any AI firm that crosses $200 million in revenue with a one-time tax — payable not in cash but in stock, 50% of it — handed over to a federally managed fund. The fund would pay every American a dividend of around a thousand dollars a year, and a presidentially appointed panel would vote those shares to block company decisions it judged harmful to ordinary people.
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Single-Player Software
Every morning at 6 a.m. my Mac mini prints out my day.
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Autonomy as Career Progression
When Dave Girouard hired me at Google, he told me my job was to get all the schools in the country using Gmail for their email. I asked him how he wanted me to do that. He said, “That’s what I hired you to figure out.”
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We're About to Repeat the Screens Mistake with AI in Schools
We’re about to have the same fight about AI in schools that we’ve been having about devices. And if we’re not careful, we’re going to get it wrong the same way.