Mike Taylor

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Mike Taylor is a co-author of the O’Reilly-published book "Prompt Engineering for Generative AI" and an AI engineer.

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Dec 12, 2024

The No-fluff Guide to AI Agents

The next generation of AI is coming—here’s how they work

Nov 18, 2024

When Guessing Isn’t Good Enough

Solving AI hallucination with retrieval augmented generation

Jan 21, 2024

The Ultimate Guide to Prompt Engineering

Prompting AI tools is a new form of management science

Jun 25, 2024

How to Become an Expert at Anything With AI

Using ChatGPT and Claude for memetic analysis

Apr 21, 2024

How to Become an Expert at Anything With AI

Using ChatGPT and Claude for memetic analysis

Sep 2, 2024

The Key to Great AI Prompting? Show, Don’t Tell

Provide examples to your LLM with few-shot learning

Feb 25, 2025

I Created a Hacker News Simulator to Reverse-engineer Virality

AI agents cosplaying as online commenters have a lot to teach us

Aug 11, 2024

AI Works Better When You Make It Pretend

Why role prompting your LLM yields the response you want

Jun 26, 2024

Reverse-engineer Your Creativity With AI

Know when to copy—and when to go against the grain

Jun 24, 2024

How to Grade AI (And Why You Should)

Evals are often all you need

Jun 23, 2024

Emotion Prompting: Why AI Responds Well to Threats

I shouted at my AI coworker—and it worked

Apr 4, 2024

The Ultimate Guide to Prompt Engineering

Prompting AI tools is a new form of management science

Mar 10, 2024

How to Grade AI (And Why You Should)

Evals are often all you need

Aug 29, 2025

The Most Human AI Model Is Also One of the Cheapest

I tested 12 AI models on real human behavior—the best one costs less than a penny per 100 responses

Sep 25, 2025

I’ve Stopped Writing Prompts—DSPy Does It Better

AI engineer and Every columnist Michael Taylor recently stopped by our New York office for a tutorial on how the prompt optimization tool works

May 8, 2025

AI Focus Groups—And Soon AI Copywriters—Will Make Ads Superhuman

How LLMs will beat the best human marketers

May 27, 2024

Reverse-engineer Your Creativity With AI

Know when to copy—and when to go against the grain

Jan 20, 2026

What AI Is Teaching Us About Management

The skills that make AI agents reliable are identical to the skills that make human teams effective

Jul 28, 2025

When AI Gets It Wrong—And How to Know

Understanding AI's blind spots can make you a better decision-maker

Jul 21, 2024

Why AIs Need to Stop and Think Before They Answer

How chain of thought works to get better responses

Jun 17, 2025

I Cloned 2,000 Hacker News Users to Predict Viral Posts

My AI experiment hit 60 percent accuracy—not perfect, but enough to change how we think about market research

Oct 14, 2024

AI Never Gets Tired of You Asking

Repeat AI tasks with self-consistency sampling to get better results

Dec 5, 2025

This Prompt Optimizer Learns From Its Mistakes Like DNA

A new tool that 'evolves' your prompts may be the next step in getting LLMs to do precisely what you want

Jan 12, 2025

I Asked 100 AI Agents to Judge an Advertisement

Here's what they said (and how you can ask them, too)