The Vibes Have Come for Search

Hello, and happy Sunday! Dan Shipper’s piece about the return of generalists got us chatting in the Every Discord about generalists versus specialists. Many of us consider ourselves unabashed generalists. “My go-to line growing up (that my parents despised) was, ‘Specialization is for insects,’” entrepreneur in residence Brandon Gell told us. Read on for more about that piece along with everything else we published last week, and our take on the latest tech news.—Kate Lee

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"Why Generalists Own the Future" by Dan Shipper/Chain of Thought: Forget what you've heard about AI making generalists obsolete. Dan argues that in a world where LLMs can match specialist knowledge, it's the adaptable, curious minds that will thrive. Generalists armed with AI tools can navigate "wicked"—or complex and ambiguous—environments where experts (and machines) struggle. Read this if you want to understand why being a jack-of-all-trades might just be your superpower in the age of AI.

"Vibes-based Search" by Evan Armstrong/Napkin Math: The power of LLMs to transform search engines has been dramatically underestimated. AI can now intuit what you mean, search any dataset, and co-create answers with you. It represents a genuine threat to Google and a wholesale change to the way the internet works. Read this if you want to see how AI is evolving beyond finding information to understanding and creating it—and why that's a massive opportunity for startups.

🎧 "How to Supercharge Your Writing With AI Tools" by Dan Shipper/Chain of Thought: We publish lots of work around here—AI is how we do it with collapsing from exhaustion. Dan and Evan spill the beans on their AI-powered writing processes, from using ChatGPT to discover your literary taste to generating metaphors with Claude. Watch this if you want to learn how to use AI to improve your writing, or if you just want to see two word nerds geek out over their favorite tools. 🎧 Watch on X or YouTube, or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, and access the full transcript. ✎ Sign up for our new course, How to Write With AI, to learn how to do it yourself.

🔏 "The Key to Great AI Prompting? Show, Don’t Tell" by Michael Taylor/Also True for Humans: Few-shot learning—providing AI with a handful of task examples—is the secret sauce to getting better results from ChatGPT and other language models. It's like teaching a child to apply sunscreen: Show, don't just tell. Read this if you want to level up your AI prompts and get more reliable, creative outputs. 🔏 Paid subscribers get access to code samples for testing few-shot prompts.

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