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Thinking About AI Jobs on Labor Day

September 1, 2025

A labor day themed issue, featuring several posts about how AI changes work and workers.

Why the Term "Context Engineering" Matters

Exploring training methods, questioning the limits of the 'bitter lesson', and foiling LLMs with cat facts.

Context for Apps, Prompts for Chat

Hi all, Lots of talk about contexts this month, as the entire AI ecosystem seemed to suddenly realize that “prompting” and “context management” are two very...

Explaining System Prompts & Recent Writing

You can learn a lot about how a chatbot works by reading its system prompt.

Reasoning About Reasoning

How do models "think"?

What Changes When The UI Is Language?

Kicking off my newsletter, I'm diving into AI's impact on expertise and why it's worth simplifying complex concepts.