Chain of Thought

Thinking at the edge of AI, every Friday.

May 22, 2024

GPT-5 Is Coming: Reading Between the Lines at Microsoft Build

News and notes from the AI-everything developer conference

May 24, 2024

Microsoft’s CTO on How to Build Enduring Businesses in the AI Era

My conversation with Kevin Scott

May 24, 2024

Coding With Devin: My New AI Programming Agent

Is it an employee or a tool?

Jun 7, 2024

LLMs Turn Every Question Into an Answer

Part two: Language models as text expanders

Jun 12, 2024

Apple Embraces the Enemy

What its unlikely AI alliance with OpenAI and Microsoft means

Jun 28, 2024

When AI Gets More Capable, What Will Humans Do?

We used to be sculptors. We're all about to be gardeners.

Jul 19, 2024

Every’s Master Plan

Writing our way to a big business

Jul 26, 2024

AI Can Help You Make Big Life Decisions

Navigating one-way-door decisions with a little prompting

Jul 26, 2024

How I Built Spiral

Paying-subscriber benefit: My chat with Claude to write the code for our new prompt builder

Aug 2, 2024

The Great AI Unbundling

Why ChatGPT and Claude will spawn the next wave of startups

Aug 9, 2024

Review: ChatGPT’s New Advanced Voice Mode

AI’s new voice is a leap into the future

Aug 30, 2024

OpenAI’s New Model, Strawberry, Explained

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

Sep 6, 2024

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

Sep 13, 2024

OpenAI’s o1 Model, Explained

Chain of thought opens a new paradigm in AI progress

Sep 20, 2024

Admitting What Is Obvious

I’m a writer—what are you?

Sep 26, 2024

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

Never forget what you read again

Oct 1, 2024

Everything OpenAI Launched at DevDay

A real-time API, prompt caching, higher rate limits, model distillation tools, and more

Oct 2, 2024

A Day at the Center of the AI Boom (2023)

In San Francisco, there’s one rule to live by: Layer up.

Oct 3, 2024

OpenAI Launches a Document and Code Editor Integrated Into ChatGPT

Canvas is an Artifacts competitor aiming at the future of AI-human collaboration

Oct 11, 2024

Five New Thinking Styles for Working With Thinking Machines

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

Oct 18, 2024

How to Figure Out What People Want

Think in sequences, not essences

Nov 22, 2023

The King Is Back in the Castle

But you only get one coup

Sep 25, 2024

GPT-4 Is a Reasoning Engine (2023)

Reason is only as good as the information we give it

Nov 7, 2023

What I Saw at OpenAI’s Developer Day

Bigger, smarter, faster, cheaper, easier