Chain of Thought

Thinking at the edge of AI.

Feb 21, 2025

5 New Thinking Styles for Working With Thinking Machines

AI is turning science into engineering—with unprecedented changes for how we see the world

Apr 1, 2024

The Knowledge Economy Is Over. Welcome to the Allocation Economy

In the age of AI, every maker becomes a manager

Sep 21, 2023

Great Artists Steal (With LLMs)

You can only steal what you can find—and AI lets you find exactly what you need

May 9, 2024

ChatGPT and the Future of the Human Mind

AI is a lever that becomes a lens

Oct 31, 2024

Writing as a Way of Thinking

Why managers might offer our best clue about AI’s impact on writing

Aug 10, 2023

How to Develop Your Taste for New Technologies

A close encounter with GrimesAI

Aug 29, 2024

OpenAI’s New Model, Strawberry, Explained

ChatGPT’s next big evolution lies in its ability to solve the ‘strawberry’ problem

Sep 19, 2024

Admitting What Is Obvious

I’m a writer—what are you?

Dec 7, 2023

Will Google’s Bard Be a Destination Chatbot?

Why it could succeed or fail—and what that means for the future of AI chatbots

May 18, 2023

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of 1-1 Learning

How to learn anything 98% better than average

Apr 13, 2023

Against Explanations

AI can make progress where science has struggled

Apr 28, 2023

AI and the Future of Programming

An interview with Replit co-founder Amjad Masad

Feb 9, 2023

How to Build a Chatbot with GPT-3

A step-by-step guide

Jul 18, 2023

Can AI and ML Predict Depression?

An interview with researcher Dr. Eiko Fried

Feb 27, 2025

GPT-4.5 Won’t Blow Your Mind. It Might Befriend It Instead.

We’ve been testing the latest model for a few days. Here’s what we found.

Mar 31, 2024

What I Do When I Can’t Sleep

AI, insomnia, and the articulation of taste

May 25, 2023

What I Learned Teaching 100 People To Code with AI

I guess I’m a programming teacher now

Sep 25, 2024

GPT-4: A Copilot For The Mind (2023)

Never forget what you read again

Apr 25, 2025

AI Can Fix Social Media’s Original Sin

You are what you say you are—not just what you click

Mar 28, 2025

Why Generalists Own the Future

In the age of AI, it’s better to know a little about a lot than a lot about a little

Nov 3, 2022

Generative AIs Narrow the Taste Gap

Musings from the frontier of AI and the written word

Apr 25, 2024

What Can Language Models Actually Do?

Part one: Language models as text compressors

Feb 18, 2025

How Language Models Work

A 100-percent jargon-free guide

Jan 19, 2023

Code for GPT-3 Journal Summarizer

Access the code samples here.