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Alex Duffy

Alex Duffy

Alex Duffy is the cofounder and CEO of Good Start Labs, and a contributing writer.

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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.

Dan Shipper
Jan 23, 2025

We Tried OpenAI’s New Agent—Here’s What We Found

Operator (Could you help me do this task?)

Dan Shipper
Jan 28, 2025

What Actually Matters (And What Doesn’t) For DeepSeek

Allow us to explain why your 401k is down

Evan Armstrong
Apr 11, 2025

Your CEO Just Said ‘Use AI or Else.’ Here’s What to Do Next.

Shopify’s CEO announced that AI is a workplace expectation. This is your step-by-step guide to mastering AI at work.

Alex Duffy
May 3, 2025

How We Shape AI, And How It Shapes Us

Plus: Why the future of AI is social

Alex Duffy
May 10, 2025

Rise of the AI Wrappers

Plus: Google’s Gemini models get their due

Alex Duffy
Jun 5, 2025

We Made Top AI Models Compete in a Game of Diplomacy. Here’s Who Won.

The models that did the best learned to lie, deceive, and betray their fellow players

Alex Duffy
May 23, 2025

Google’s AI Vision: Make Tech Human Again

The company’s hurricane of AI product releases at Google I/O adds up to a clear vision for AGI and for humanity

Alex Duffy
Apr 4, 2025

Tried AI? You Are Not ‘Most Americans’

Plus: The inside story of vibe forms

Alex Duffy
Feb 3, 2025

We Tried OpenAI’s New Deep Research—Here’s What We Found

Vibe check: It’s awesome.

Dan Shipper
Oct 6, 2025

Vibe Check: OpenAI DevDay 2025

Apps, agents, and API updates—but where's the vision that makes you dream?

Dan Shipper
Mar 14, 2025

Anthropic and OpenAI Pick Their Lanes

Plus: The untold story of Commodore

Alex Duffy
Mar 7, 2025

We Gave GPT-4.5 a Myers-Briggs Test. It’s an Extrovert.

OpenAI’s new model rewards getting to know it. Plus: AI companies are increasingly picking lanes for their models to specialize in.

Alex Duffy
Mar 23, 2025

The Steering Wheel for AI

Plus: The slippery slope of vibe coding tools, and exploring machine creativity

Alex Duffy
Jul 19, 2025

What I Learned About AI at the World’s Most Famous Museum

Three principles that determine success in AI, regardless of geography

Alex Duffy
Jun 25, 2025

How We Made AI Diplomacy Work

Lessons learned taking our game-based AI benchmark from demo to 50,000 live viewers

Alex Duffy
Jun 13, 2025

Tipping the AI Scales

Plus: ChatGPT is my physics tutor

Alex Duffy
Mar 30, 2025

GPT-4o and the Art of AI Adoption

Plus: The anatomy of a viral tweet-creating prompt

Alex Duffy
Jun 27, 2025

The Better AI Gets, The More It Needs Us

Hunting rare data and teaching models—the human expertise that's more valuable than ever

Alex Duffy
Apr 27, 2025

Disclaimer: AI Generated

Responsibility versus transparency in the AI era. Plus: An upgrade to our file-organizing app Sparkle.

Alex Duffy

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