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Too Helpful to Think: The Hidden Cost of AI In Your Major Life Decisions

The 5,000-Year Wait Is Over: Writing is Starting Evolve for the First Time—Features My Personal Model Writing Stack

The Definitive Guide to AI Agents in 2025: Technical Implementation, Strategic Decisions, and Market Reality

How to Use AI When Your Brain Is Oatmeal

The Dark Mirror: Why ChatGPT Becomes Whatever You Need It To Be

AI's Synthetic Summer: The 2025 Mid-Year Data & Trend Outlook

Finally, a Way to Choose the Right AI Model (Without Going Insane)

o3 Pro is Out and It's Easily The Best Model in the World—Here's Everything You Need to Know

We're Using AI Backwards—Here's How to Max Your Brain on AI (I call it Cognitive Choreography)

Nate Post Organizer: All my top posts in one place

Let's Talk THAT Apple AI Paper—Here's the Real Takeaway the Internet is Ignoring

The Gray Lady’s Data Dragnet: How One Court Order Just Nuked ChatGPT Privacy

Scaling Isn’t Destiny: Rethinking the Straight-Line Path to AGI

A Quick Guide to OpenAI's New Data Connectors—Here's How to Use Them in 5 Minutes Plus the Strategy Behind the Launch

Mary Meeker AI Trends 2025 Deep Dive: 7 Unexpected Truths About AI's Next Phase

Learn AI The Easy Way: A Complete Visual Guide to All 16 of the Best AI Models In the World, Including ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and More!

I Summarized Mary Meeker's Incredible 340 Page 2025 AI Trends Deck—Here's Mary's Take, My Response, and What You Can Learn

The Kids Will be Ok: How To Skip the Jobs AI Doom Spiral and Actually Prepare for the Age of AI: A Tech Career Manifesto

Surfing the Guardrails: 7 Production-Grade Prompting Patterns I Stole from Claude's (Alleged) System Prompt

If the AI is a vibe, the human is a scar

Reinforcement Learning is The Theory of Everything for AI—This is Your Guide to What it Is and How it Works

The Irreducible Human: Six Things We Still Do That Machines Can't

Introducing Claude 4—here's where it shines and how to use it alongside ChatGPT and Gemini

OpenAI Steals Apple's Playbook, Apple's Designer, and Gets Into the ChatGPT Device Wars

ChatGPT Doesn't Just Do Chat: How to Build Real Data Models Inside ChatGPT o3—works for Claude and Gemini as well

Quick note: What happened at Google I/O

This is AI Super Week: Here's what's on deck from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft

Our Work Norms are 4000 Years Old and We Need to Update Them for AI—Here's How to Do It

Sunday Edition: Yes True Innovation with AI is Possible—Here's the Proof

Report: Open AI Launches Codex—Here's the Agentic play and How it Connects to Windsurf, Claude, etc.

How to do Voice of Customer in the Age of AI: A Case Study From My Own Build

Beyond the Listicle: Ten AI Tools That Earn Their Keep After ChatGPT (that's ~0.014% of all AI tools so we exercised judgement here)

Stop Waiting for New AI Models: Here's How to Use Data to Make AI at Work, WORK

Blow Up Your Assumptions: Rethinking Product and Engineering in the age of AI

Six AI Product Principles No One Tells You—And How I'm Applying Them in My Build

There is Too Much AI Hype—This is How To Defend Your Brain and Stay Calm

What I tell my Mom about AI

The Compression of Time in the AI Era

How to Prompt with Wake Words in ChatGPT: One Word Callouts Save Hours Prompting on Common Tasks

We Live in an Emergent Compute World

What I tell my kids when they ask about AI

Code as Story

Taming the Genie: How to Read the Code You Just Wished Into Existence

Owning the Rails: How OpenAI’s $3B Windsurf Bet Rewrites the AI Battlefield

Write Once, Save 100 Prompts: Mastering ChatGPT’s Two Secret Boxes

We are missing the real AI misalignment risk

ChatGPT Doesn't Think You're God Anymore, and That's Good

The Universal Anatomy of the Prompt—How and Why a Prompt Works and How to Make it Work for You

Tired Keeping Up with AI? You're not Alone—We're All in a Red Queen Race...

Don't Just Think, Focus—Unlock the Magic of Reasoning Models with Chain-of-Refinement Prompting

You "Otter" Do AI Evals—Here's What They Are, How to Get Started, and How Not to Fail

What if It's Already Enough? The Debate Over Intelligence Saturation

Turn ChatGPT into a Sushi Conveyor Belt: 5 Prompts to Automate Workflows that (Seriously) Save Hours

Your Prompt Is the Product: Working with o3 & o4-mini-high in the Agentic Era

Stop Designing AI Chatbots, Start Designing AI Relationships: A Comprehensive Playbook for Design in the Agentic Era

We killed your startup, lol—what to build when Sam Altman keeps shipping better models

You Will Choose Wisely: The Definitive Guide to Picking (and Paying for) an AI Plan in Q2 2025

Why the Pipes Suddenly Matter

The Complete Guide to ChatGPT o3: Includes Tests vs. Gemini 2.5 Pro, Performance at ~12 Job Skills, OpenAI Notes Review, Links to Other Reviews

The AI Resume Survival Guide (for 2025 and Beyond)

You Don’t Need Better Models—You Need a Better Strategy

If You’re Worried AI Will Replace You, Read This First

Your Team is Using AI Wrong: The Hidden Pattern Behind High-Performing AI Teams

When AI Learns to Ship: The Real Story Behind A2A

How I Think About MCP: A Practical Guide to Tool Use in AI Agents

From 0 to 5K: The Complete Simplified Guide to Getting Going with AI

The Best of Times, The Worst of Times—A Revised 2025 AI Outlook

My Prompt Stack for Work: 16 Prompts In My AI Toolkit That Make Work a LOT Easier

The AI is a Vibe: A Short Manifesto for the AI Age

Nate's Secret Sauce: A Prompt Engineering Masterclass using 19 Prompts To Write a 47-Page Report on the History of AI

Beyond Black Boxes: Mapping the Multidimensional Continuums of Modern LLMs

Finishing What AI Starts: The New Jobs That Will Define the Next Decade

The Parrot Can Talk AND Draw: Multimodal is here to stay

Incredible: ChatGPT's New 4o vs Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental—Who Draws Best?

The Chameleon Web: 57% of Online Text May Already Be AI—Here's What That Means for Us Humans

The AI Productivity Stack: 27 Tools That Actually Deliver ROI

AI Means SaaS Doesn't Taste Like (Bland) Chicken Anymore

Dreaming Lies: Why AI Hallucinates, and How to (Mostly) Stop It

Beyond AI Slop: Learning to Write (and Think) with ChatGPT Without Losing My Voice

The Copy-Paste Problem: How AI Is Shattering Software Lock-In

Dead as a Dinosaur: 2010's Software Laws Are Gone—Here Are The Laws of the AI Age

AI for Beginners: Get Started with AI from Scratch

The Vibe Coding Bible: How to Build Useful Things with Short Prompts

Coming into focus: the State of the AI Agent Ecosystem in March 2025

A Herculean Struggle: Manus AI vs. Deep Research in the Struggle for AI Supremacy

Composio MCP wants to dance with your LLM, but some people are shy

Crossing the Uncanny Valley: Why Sesame’s Human-Like Voice Feels Like a Defining Moment for AI

Prompt Chaining Masterclass: How to Orchestrate Multiple AI Models for Maximum Impact

Think Before Your Next Move: A Celebration of Inference Time Compute and AI

Beautiful Minds: ChatGPT 4.5 vs. Claude 3.7 in an AI Prompt Showdown: Which Model is Best for AI Building Tools?

Transformers—a Love Letter to a New Way of Computing

A Complete Guide to Claude 3.7 with Code Comparison Across 7 Major AI Models

Indiana Jones and the Rise of Tokenized Culture: What AI’s Creativity Reveals About Us

Avoid the Footguns! A Pocket Guide to Building Reliably with AI-Assisted Development Tools in 2025

Why Microsoft is Suddenly Betting Against Meta and Google and OpenAI on AGI

9 Uses of Deep Research: Unlocking Hidden Insights Across Domains

Surfing Generative AI: A Long View of the AI Wave from the 1950's to 2025 and Autonomous Agents

How to Escape AI Doom Loops: A Practical Guide

Help My Job is Changing! A Complete Handbook to Product, Engineering, and Design Role Changes Driven by AI

ChatGPT 5: One Model to Rule Them All Shows OpenAI’s Vision for the Future

Gemini Tried to Charge $500 to Chat

The Prompt Spellbook: 12 Advanced Prompting Techniques for Methodical Magic

Don't Panic: A Practical Handbook for Navigating Job Transitions in the Age of AI

AI and The Soft Loss of Solitude

My Complete Q1 2025 AI Productivity Stack: AI for Good Days and Bad Days...

Who sees the future clearly, builds it: NVIDIA and the technologies we're not talking about

A Deep Dive into OpenAI Deep Research: Can You Feel The AGI? (Also Why Is Everything "Deep" Now FFS)

OpenAI o3-mini and o3-mini-high: a complete guide and practical benchmark

Your Pocket Guide to Prompt Engineering: How to Get the Most from AI Models

ChatGPT o3-mini is (probably) out tomorrow, so we should talk about benchmarks

DeepSeek's Exponential Growth, and the Blueprint for AI’s Next Era

DeepSeek Claims to Threaten NVIDIA's Moat—Here's Why Jensen is Going to Keep Laughing to the Bank

Battle Bots: Six AI Chatbots Face Off to Debug an Issue Building in Bolt.New

AI Rot in Cupertino: A Deep Dive into the Slowburn Crisis that Threatens Apple's 3.3T Empire

OpenAI Operator: A Complete Hands-On Review with Screenshots

Ghost Stories: How ChatGPT Invented a Day of AI News

Stargate: America’s $500 Billion Gamble on an AI-Driven Future

The AI Chess Game: How DeepSeek is Changing the Game for Model Makers

The High Cost of Cheap AI: A Cheatsheet to the Hidden Patterns Behind AI Disasters

Dodging the AI Potholes: Avoiding the Top 5 Pitfalls in AI-Assisted Building

CUDA: How NVIDIA Forged an Unbreakable Empire in the Age of AI

Stop Jumping to Build: The Systematic Way to use AI to Build Product in 2025

2025: Surviving (and Thriving) in the Age of Intelligent Machines

The Art of AI Whispering: A Cheatsheet for Prompting

Sailing New Waters: The Complete AI Agent Guide for Builders in 2025

No, ChatGPT Is Not to Blame for the Cybertruck Explosion in Las Vegas

NVIDIA's Next Frontier: AI, Robotics, and the Future of Everything

Skynet? Nah—SlackNet: Sam Altman’s 2025 AI Vision

When Machines Think Like Aliens: Decentering Humanity in the AGI Debate

Is This Thing On? Claude’s Surprisingly Funny AI Standup Debut

17 Predictions for 2025: The Year AI Gets Personal (and Weird)