Chain of Thought

Thinking at the edge of AI.

Oct 1, 2024

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

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

Jan 7, 2023

Access to our Science Chat Bot

Use it and download the source code

Jul 25, 2024

How I Built Spiral

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

Feb 19, 2025

What Can Language Models Actually Do?

Language models as text compressors

Jul 25, 2024

AI Can Help You Make Big Life Decisions

Navigating one-way-door decisions with a little prompting

Oct 31, 2025

How Tools Shape How We See the World

The complexity of our tools changes the complexity of our reality

Apr 18, 2024

AI Writing Will Feel Real—Eventually

Humans have always found new technology impersonal, but that feeling doesn't last

Apr 11, 2024

Capability Blindness and the Future of Creativity

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

Jun 27, 2024

When AI Gets More Capable, What Will Humans Do?

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

Sep 30, 2024

Everything OpenAI Launched at DevDay

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

Oct 7, 2025

Smuggled Intelligence

Why AI progress is real and most jobs are safe

Oct 24, 2025

Seeing Creativity Like a Language Model

AI doesn’t have to make slop—it can help you do the best work of your life

Nov 2, 2023

AI Chatbot Course Sneak-Peak

Early-bird pricing for How to Build an AI Chatbot ends November 6

Jul 15, 2025

The Magic Minimum for AI Agents

Agents don't need to be daily habits to be billion-dollar businesses

Dec 4, 2025

Opus 4.5 Collapsed Six Months of Development Work Into One Week

Welcome to prompt-native apps, where features are written in English, not code

May 13, 2024

GPT-4o and OpenAI’s Race to Win Consumers

Decoding what the AI leader’s latest release means for the future

Apr 17, 2023

New Course: How to Build a GPT-4 Chatbot

Create your own personal knowledge assistant in 30 days

Jul 7, 2025

Toward a Definition of AGI

AGI is intelligence too valuable to shut off

Dec 11, 2025

Compound Engineering: How Every Codes With Agents

A four-step engineering process for software teams that don’t write code

Aug 20, 2024

The Mantra of This AI Age: Don’t Repeat Yourself

AI won't kill your job. But it will steal your repetitive tasks.

Feb 1, 2024

Quick Hits: New AI Features From Arc and ChatGPT

The future arrived faster than I expected

Jun 9, 2025

How to Figure Out What People Want

Think in sequences, not essences

Feb 8, 2024

Should You Buy a Vision Pro? A Guide

How much would you pay for a dream come true?

Mar 2, 2023

Live Workshop: Fine Tuning AI on Your Favorite Writer’s Voice

Learn to get AI to write like your favorite writer, from start to finish