The Age of Artisanal AI Is Coming

Hello, and happy Sunday. When everyone has the same models, what sets you apart is your judgment about what good looks like. Dan Shipper makes that case in his closing keynote at Thesis: 2027, and Mike Taylor shows how to turn your corrections into a test for any model. Katie Parrott finds that Fable 5.2 can work unattended overnight or all weekend, which leaves the quality of your assignment and of your check on the result up to you.—Grant Harvey

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Protocols

From this week’s stories, seven skills to try.

Put your judgment to work

From “What’s Left for Humans After Automation”

Turn your corrections into checks. Mike pastes in an AI output for a task he repeats, says what he likes and doesn’t, and has the AI turn each comment into a yes-or-no check it can grade future outputs against. The prompt
Ask an agent what your client needs next. Ode engineer Hugh Wimberly is helping an accounting firm use agents to find opportunities in its clients’ records. Give an agent the reports, meeting notes, and emails on the client, boss, or team you know best and ask what problem or opportunity they’re likely to face soon that they haven’t asked you about. The prompt
Hire for tolerance of uncertainty. Nursa founder and CEO Curtis Anderson starts every interview process by asking candidates for examples of ambiguous situations they survived or grew through, at work or anywhere else. The questions