Mike Taylor

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Mike Taylor is the head of tech consulting at Every and a co-author of "Prompt Engineering for Generative AI" (O’Reilly).

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Dec 13, 2024

The No-fluff Guide to AI Agents

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

Nov 19, 2024

When Guessing Isn’t Good Enough

Solving AI hallucination with retrieval augmented generation

Jan 22, 2024

The Ultimate Guide to Prompt Engineering

Prompting AI tools is a new form of management science

Jun 26, 2024

How to Become an Expert at Anything With AI

Using ChatGPT and Claude for memetic analysis

Apr 22, 2024

How to Become an Expert at Anything With AI

Using ChatGPT and Claude for memetic analysis

Sep 3, 2024

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

Provide examples to your LLM with few-shot learning

Aug 12, 2024

AI Works Better When You Make It Pretend

Why role prompting your LLM yields the response you want

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

Jun 27, 2024

Reverse-engineer Your Creativity With AI

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

Jun 25, 2024

How to Grade AI (And Why You Should)

Evals are often all you need

Jun 24, 2024

Emotion Prompting: Why AI Responds Well to Threats

I shouted at my AI coworker—and it worked

Apr 5, 2024

The Ultimate Guide to Prompt Engineering

Prompting AI tools is a new form of management science

Mar 11, 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 28, 2024

Reverse-engineer Your Creativity With AI

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

May 8, 2025

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

How LLMs will beat the best human marketers

Mar 23, 2026

I Achieved the Four-hour Workweek. So Why Did I Just Take a Job?

After years of self-employment, I went full-time at Every. Here’s why.

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

Feb 23, 2026

Why I Turned Off ChatGPT’s Memory

The case for keeping your AI on a need-to-know basis

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 22, 2024

Why AIs Need to Stop and Think Before They Answer

How chain of thought works to get better responses

Mar 30, 2026

Seven Things I’ve Learned Getting Companies to Use AI

A playbook from the front lines of AI consulting

Oct 15, 2024

AI Never Gets Tired of You Asking

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