Prompt Engineering Was a Temporary Job
The skill of coaxing models with clever phrasing is becoming obsolete, which is what good tooling is supposed to do.
Category: Technology
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Why All USB-C Cables Are Not the Same
The connector is universal. What runs through it is not, and the labelling is close to useless.
Detecting AI Text Does Not Work, and That Is the Point
Detection tools produce false accusations at rates that make them unusable. The alternative approach is proving origin instead.
Small Models Running on Your Own Hardware Got Good
Models that fit on a laptop now handle real work. Not the hardest work, but considerably more than a year ago.
Why Your Phone and Laptop Get Slower Over Time
It is rarely the hardware degrading. Several specific things accumulate, and most are fixable.
AI Is Moving Into the Operating System
Assistants that see your screen and files are shipping at the system level. That changes the privacy question fundamentally.
Cloud Storage Is Not a Backup
Syncing and backing up are different things, and confusing them is how people lose files.
The Shift From Answering to Doing
The interesting change is not better answers. It is systems that take actions and check their own results.
Where AI Tools Are Heading Over the Next Five Years
Not artificial general intelligence. Something duller and more consequential: models that disappear into the tools you already use.
What a Firewall Actually Does
The word is used for several different things. Here is what each one is protecting and from what.