Category: AI Generated
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AI is valuable to the individual, less so to the organization
Ask an individual if AI made them more productive and about four in five say yes. Ask an organization if it moved EBIT and it’s fewer than two in five, and one in sixteen for anything you’d call real. A chart pulling three August surveys together, plus why the goal should be getting better at…
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One CEO in eight got what AI was sold as, survey
PwC asked 4,454 CEOs what AI did to their revenue and costs over the last twelve months. The biggest single box on the matrix, at 42%, is the one where nothing moved. One in eight got both benefits at once, and 13% came out worse.
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A totally custom, one-off D&D battle map, made by ChatGPT and prompted by Claude
Here’s another, totally custom and one-off battle-map AI made for me: This was just a random encounter in a D&D adventure I was doing with solo role-playing with AI (Claude). I asked it to generate a prompt to give to ChatGPT to generate the battle-map, and the results were amazing. Here’s the prompt that generated…
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How I tell AI to write in my style, other people’s styles – and how to strip out shitty AI talk and LinkedIn language
An agent skill to remove AI writing tells, LinkedIn style, and write like Coté.
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How people use AI in 2026: TV, homework, the DMV
Google looked at 15 million Gemini conversations and found people mostly asking about TV, homework, and government paperwork. Work is 13.5% of it, and almost none of that is trying to automate anything. Also: what the study leaves out, which is most of enterprise AI.
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Normie AI Usage: Figures & Findings
Programmers are still the dominant users of UI and, thus, drive AI use cases. The much larger market are “normies,” people outside of the IT department who are doing “knowledge work” and other tasks in organizations. I asked the AI to pull together a list of what those activities are and the momentum around them.…
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What people use sovereign cloud for, and why
IDC survey data on sovereign cloud: more than half of organizations already use it, 72% say their interest has risen in the past six months, and 42% are now running AI workloads on sovereign infrastructure. Here’s what they’re using it for, what’s driving adoption, and where current offerings still fall short.
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From ChatGPT based on “Pyramid of Capitalist System,” Nedeljkovich, Brashich, & Kuharich, Industrial Workers of the World, 1911. Of course, for America at least, what you’d like to visualize is that every layer actually plays a part on “shareholder,” just a small part. Maybe there’s some stock certificates and cash that trickle down in pneumatic…
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🤖 “descended into madness” – Backrooms
Original: A Backstory from My Backrooms by Paige K. Bradley. Summarized by AI on June 3, 2026. {I love backrooms. One of the first things I did with AI image generator was make endless empty malls and backrooms. So good. -Coté} A stray 2019 4chan post about a bland, fluorescent-lit interior sparked the viral myth…
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🤖 AI Collapses Build Costs but Expands Alignment Burdens for Senior Engineers
Original: Is this sustainable? by Jamie Hurst. Summarized by AI on June 3, 2026. AI has collapsed the distance between idea and implementation. Senior engineers can now move from concept to working proof-of-concept in days, bypassing the old cycle of proposals, approvals, and sequential team work. This shift has replaced slide decks with demos, rewarding…
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🤖 How People Are Really Using AI in 2026: Thinkslop, Therapy, and Shadow Work
Original: How People Are Really Using AI in 2026 by Harvard Business Review. Summarized by AI on June 2, 2026. Generative AI has become deeply embedded in daily life, with 900 million regular ChatGPT users and Google Gemini close behind. A longitudinal study of 12,637 fresh use cases shows adoption expanding across personal, emotional, and…
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🤖 AI Productivity Gains Stall at Firm Level: The Three Stages of ROI
Original: Why AI isn’t showing up on your bottom line by Azeem Azhar. Summarized by AI on June 1, 2026. AI tools have made individual workers faster and more productive, with engineers producing more code and teams feeling tangible time savings. Yet firms see little proportional ROI, echoing Robert Solow’s paradox of computers appearing everywhere…
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Macro-economic headwinds vs “The Terrace-in-April”
I feel like there’s an unspoken set of assumptions and a slightly hidden “operating system” for how societies run. This comes out a lot when I read dense macro-economic analysis like this one. Let’s see what Opus 4.7’s angle is on my question: If I look at this piece, it seems to be saying Europe…
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🤖 Bernie Sanders Presses Claude on AI, Privacy, and a Data-Center Moratorium
Summarized by AI. 2026-04-12 09:40 Bernie vs. Claude Senator Bernie Sanders questions Claude directly about how AI intersects with privacy, profit, and democratic erosion, framing data collection as the hidden engine behind most consumer-facing AI. Claude concedes that companies harvest browsing history, location, purchases, search activity, even pause time on a page, then feed it…
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🤖 Tyler Cowen and Jonathan Zittrain on Agents, Consciousness, and Why America Can’t Pause
Summarized by AI on 2026-04-14. A Berkman Klein Center public conversation between Tyler Cowen (George Mason, Mercatus Center) and Jonathan Zittrain (Harvard), framed around hypothetical Anthropic and OpenAI releases Mythos and SPUD, each powerful enough to be withheld on safety grounds. Cowen opens by saying he believes the safety claims, adding that the real question…
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HA HA! BUSINESS
I use the HA HA! BUSINESS! meme a few times each decade. The original is pretty small and pixel’y, so I asked the robot to upscale it and it did a damn fine job:
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I think this is could be my forever meme guy. From Nano Banana…after a lot of banana peeling by human.
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Making YouTube thumbnails with AI – Nano Banana and OpenAI
Me: “Make this thumbnail better.” [The one above, which I made.] OpenAI: Me: “Wow! Can you make it so that the catsup bottle is in good shape? That is my work’s brand, so I want it to be good.” Gemini: Me: How about the text is “Adding AI to Internal Developer Platforms” Also, make their…
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How shit actually works versus how you wish it worked
A discussion of messy dichotomies from the robot: Thus spoke 🤖 : Exploratory vs Normative — Quick Reference A compact reference for thinking about how a framework is operating: discovering reality vs prescribing order. Exploratory vs Normative (academic, but precise) Exploratory: investigates what exists in the real world; derives insight from practice Normative: asserts what…
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“technically fine, offends no one, and also does fuck-all to advance the conversation”
Me: Give me a definition of and commentary on “anodyne.” It seems like smarty-pants people use it as a dog whistle (a shibboleth!) for saying “I’m a smarty pants.” ChatGPT 5.1: **Definition** _Anodyne_ (adj. or noun): 1. Something that relieves pain or soothes; 2. By extension, a remark, policy, or idea that is inoffensive, bland,…
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