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Stop foreign interference in British politics

British politics has a foreign interference problem. An undercover investigation by Democracy for Sale and Led By Donkeys has revealed how shockingly easy it is for secretive Chinese interests to pene...

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hey jp you called it

AI coding agents accelerate code creation. It doesn’t accelerate organisations.

How do you get started with agents in your business? I answer this with a super in-depth deep dive, step by step. makingaiagents.substack.com/p/the-best-n...

The cover of my upcoming book on Vibe Coding. What do you think?

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6 different kinds of agents and when to use them

Agents are being used in a very wide range of places. In this issue I layout 6 of the most common uses.

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When should you build an AI agent? A checklist in one minute. youtube.com/clip/Ugkx2gF... (Stay up to date about AI agents at makingaiagents.substack.com )

Have you vibe coded and want to take it to the next level? I was vibe coding before it was cool 😎 and I'm offering a Vibe Coding Masterclass… limited numbers, sign up now! bit.ly/vibecodingma...

Sign up to the Vibe Coding Masterclass: build better quality vibe-coded apps

You’ve vibe-coded a few apps with AI coding agents like Replit, v0, Lovable, Databutton, Cursor, Windsurf etc, and drank the cool-aide. But you've hit these problems: How do I get it to behave? E.g. n...

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When using AI coding agents, for effective results, I'm finding there is always going to be a decison to be made: "when do I change gears from "black box prompting" (nontechnical, directional, outcome-based) to "white box prompting" (technical, tactical, focused)". Familiar?

One of the things I’ve come to appreciate being with privacy folks this week is how unique Signal is at this moment. I know it’s maybe a cliche at this point, but it needs to be said.

The latest issue of Making AI Agents is out! Latest AI agent news plus a special deep dive into Deep Research: 12 different ways to do it… makingaiagents.substack.com/p/deep-dive-...

Deep dive into Deep Research: 12 agents and agent makers compared

The Deep Research challenge: Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, ChatGPT, Make.com, Relay, SmythOS, n8n, Microsoft Autogen, Gumloop & CrewAI…

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OMG some team actually went through with this.

Daniel Benneworth-Gray@danielgray.com · 2y ago

oh cool I’ve been meaning to learn anxiety

Every UI is going to become agentic.

I’m working on a project called “AskAI”. I probably only need £50k to take it to market. But REALLY need askai.com for to be legit so I’m doing a raise for £4,050,000 wish me luck!

Feeling pretty Admiral-ish right now

“Unregulated” generally translates to “make the rich get richer” right?

New newsletter out! How to design high quality AI agents for instant productivity, reduced support & training costs. makingaiagents.substack.com/p/how-to-des...

How to design high quality AI agents for instant productivity, reduced support & training costs

In this issue I give examples of how agents are hugely reducing friction when using new tools, with a subsequent massive reduction in support and training costs.

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In my experience, human effectiveness is dependent on accumulation of knowledge from direct experience. Even if AI becomes as good as humans I think we still need to train our brains with direct, diverse & empowering experiences to maximise its potential. Otherwise our brains will atrophy.

Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)@drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 2y ago

Totally! I wrote two things along this vein. The first drew on my experience of being a curator at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social during grad school: buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

My robot vacuum cleaner knocked over a tyre that was leaning against the wall this morning. I call this art installation “brexit”.

Name one thing in your house right now that isn’t food, clothes or plants and isn’t from the US or China.

Anyone else outside the US starting to unfollow people posting about Trump’s daily hijinx? I get it: Musk and him are doing shockingly bad things. I’m just not interested in having it in my feed though.

It's nice Google offers a way to download your data but I'm not sure a week is enough to download… 884 x 2GB files… 🤯

Another issue of my Making AI Agents (MAIA) newsletter is out! My dream is that it's something people set aside and take the time to read through in-depth, because it's a biggie… makingaiagents.substack.com/p/making-ai-...

Making AI Agents… and why you SHOULDN'T be building one

Agents are the New Shiny. They have their place… but is it in your org?

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Tech is running around in a mad race to see who can make themselves redundant with AI first.

Google AI studio has a “LearnLM” mode to play the role of a tutor. This is a very exciting way to use AI to learn. Https://aistudio.google.com

I asked Deepseek Chat, a free China-based competitor to ChatGPT, to “Pick a number between 1 to be 10000. Overthink it.” Hilarity ensues.

So strange to say "yeah I'm going old skool on this process" when I'm referring to AI tech that was only released a few months ago.

Why is it that even though all my Amazon packages have been delivered there’s still something missing in my life.

We have dozens of image generators but I've failed to find one that can generate this image: "huge wave of hammers about to crash down on a beach with a few nails on it" What you typically get is an ocean wave with a few hammers and nails on the beach. Any ideas?

Making AI Agents issue 1 is out! It's my first: I'm still figuring things out so I'd very much welcome your feedback 🙏 makingaiagents.substack.com/p/making-ai-...

Making AI Agents: Jan 14 2025

AI agents are all abuzz! I save you time by sharing my insights from weeks of research and hands-on project work with AI agent technology.

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