Build with a little more restraint
Useful experiences can begin by asking what actually needs to be sent, stored, and run.
A clear-eyed view of useful AI
Curiosity,with a littlemore context.
Thoughtful essays on prompts, models, evidence, and the decisions around everyday AI use.
Browse the notebook Small AI experiments you can inspect.
An unfinished thought.+A new connection.
Inside this journal
An independent journal about practical, bounded AI use. We explore clear requests, useful examples, and the checks that help a generated result become working material.
Get to know us01 Why we write
Bounded tasks.
Practical review.
An independent journal about practical, bounded AI use. We explore clear requests, useful examples, and the checks that help a generated result become working material.
Why we write01
Begin with a bounded task
Choose a purpose whose result can be understood and reviewed.
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Inspect the evidence
Fluent output should not substitute for a check of the underlying claim.
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Keep responsibility clear
Understand which decisions remain with the people using and designing the tool.
02 A closer look
A small experiment worth inspecting.
Prediction and the appearance of understanding
A fluent response can be useful without explaining how the model reached it.
03 The notebook
Useful tasks with clear boundaries.
Finding a source and generating a sentence
Retrieving information and composing an answer are different parts of an application.
A small idea to take with you
Define the check before the prompt
Choose a low-stakes task and write what a useful output must contain. Name one check you can perform independently of the tool.