I’m having a lot of fun these days trying to keep up with all the generative AI news and products. While I’ve certainly found some great use cases in my own work, I always try to remember: “this is the worst version of this product that I’ll ever use.”
Given the rapid advances in speed, cost, and performance for these LLMs, it’s important not to simply assess them based on today’s version. Instead, it’s about learning how to think in a world with more advanced versions and without limitations like chat windows. And if that world is coming…
What should I be learning, doing, and practicing today?
Here are a few of the resources I’ve been relying on to help me process that.
Every.to
With the tagline “What comes next?”, Dan Shipper’s Every publishes multiple thought-provoking newsletters about the future of work and how to position yourself to thrive amidst the rapid changes in technology. There’s a special emphasis on generative AI.
Here’s one of his articles relating ChatGPT and Claude to Excel’s impact.
And check out Dan’s podcast AI and I - his recent episode with Notion’s CEO was great.
One Useful Thing by Ethan Mollick
Ethan Mollick’s Substack is great for learning how to think about generative AI. He simplifies concepts without dumbing them down beyond usefulness.
Funny, informative, and innovative - One Useful Thing provides frameworks for how to think about generative AI. For example, the Jagged Frontier explains how LLMs may excel in certain areas and confusingly stumble at other, seemingly simple tasks.
A great resource for non-technical people wondering “how do the models work” and “how do I incorporate these capabilities into my work?” As he has noted, even if ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc. were frozen at their current performance levels, we’d still have a decade of impact to play out.
I can also recommend his book Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI as a helpful starting point if you’re still somewhat new to learning about LLMs.
Ben’s Bites
Ben Tossell has been a fixture in the no-code space for a long time. He’s the founder of MakerPad, which was acquired by Zapier, and previously worked for Product Hunt where both indie hackers and enterprises announce new products.
Ben’s Bites is an AI-focused newsletter that links to interesting articles, spotlights AI tools, briefly covers breaking news, and now has a fairly robust set of tutorials on using AI across many different products, including Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, ChatGPT, etc.
Any others?
Let me know if you have any recommendations!