Honest coverage of AI tools, systems, and the claims made about them. What they actually do, what they get wrong, and how to use them without being used by them.
There’s a small but telling habit shift happening on millions of laptops right now. A question comes up — how does a particular tax deduction work, why does a car make that noise, what’s the plot of a book someone mentioned at dinner — and instead of the old reflex of typing a few keywords…
The language shifted almost imperceptibly between 2024 and 2026. Where conversations about artificial intelligence centred on chatbots and generative models — tools you prompt, tools that respond, tools that wait — the vocabulary that has taken over in every serious technology conversation now centres on something different: agents. Not a tool you query but a…
There’s a particular moment almost everyone has with ChatGPT the first time they use it seriously — you type something half-formed, hit enter, and a coherent, contextually appropriate answer appears in seconds. It feels less like using software and more like talking to something. Which raises the obvious question: what’s actually happening in that pause…
If you’ve typed a question into a chatbot, asked an app to redesign a photo, or watched a co-worker generate a first-draft email in ten seconds flat, you’ve already used generative AI. You just might not have thought of it in those terms. The phrase gets thrown around so often now — in software pitches,…
Every meaningful technology shift in history has produced a version of the same conversation, and the AI era is no different. The conversation goes: here is what the new tool can do, here is what it should do, and — the part that tends to get postponed — here is tasks humans should never delegate…
The Renaissance was not simply an era of beautiful paintings and architectural ambition. It was a rupture in how educated Europeans thought about knowledge — specifically, about whether knowledge was better understood as a set of separate disciplines to be mastered one at a time, or as a single interconnected field in which genuine mastery…
For most of the twentieth century, the advice was consistent across industries, career counsellors, and business schools: pick a lane, go deep, become the person who knows more about one thing than almost anyone else. Specialisation was the rational response to a world that rewarded focused expertise and where the bottleneck in any knowledge-intensive field…
Something strange is happening in today’s workplaces, and the data is becoming hard to ignore. The tools meant to save time for knowledge workers are actually making them more tired. This isn’t the usual tiredness that comes after a productive day – (Why Knowledge Workers Feel More Exhausted Than Ever). Instead, it’s a confusing type…
