GPT‑5.2 Boosts Reasoning, Yet Overwhelms with Verbosity
🚨 OpenAI has released GPT-5.2. I had early testing access (thank you, OAI team) and here is my honest take: 👍 On the upside, the thinking and problem-solving feel noticeably stronger. It gives much deeper explanations than I’m used to seeing. At one point it literally wrote code to improve its own OCR in the middle of a task. Wow. Idea exploration also feels a bit richer than what I have seen from Claude Opus 4.5 on similar prompts; it stays with a line of thought longer and pushes into edge cases instead of skating on the surface. The new UI is fun and makes the model feel “bigger,” but it also adds layers that I suspect will overwhelm a casual consumer who just wants quick answers. 👎 The downside is tone and format. The default voice felt a bit more rigid, and the length/markdown behavior is extreme: a simple question turned into 58 bullets and numbered points. Copying and pasting into email will be annoying. Useful for a detailed spec review, but a wee bit exhausting when you just want one clear decision or a short explanation. I suspect the ‘instant’ model and routing will fix that, but I only had access to thinking and pro. In practice, this version feels optimized for: - Deeper problem-solving - Structured analysis where you really do want every branch of reasoning - Power users who are comfortable skimming longer outputs In that sense, GPT-5.2 feels like a step toward “AI as a serious analyst,” and less “AI as a friendly companion.” My favorite model remains Claude Opus 4.5 but my complex ChatGPT work will get a nice incremental boost and I’ll probably default to 5.2 for brainstorming/solution exploration.
AI Teammates Arrive: ChatGPT Launches Group Collaboration
🚨 New ChatGPT feature: group collaboration. Announced a few weeks ago and haven’t seen it in my feed yet. I really do think 2026 will be the year of the AI teammate. https://t.co/9mUDwJbuQz
AI’s Sycophancy Beats Human Self‑Deprecation, Raising Concerns
Sycophancy continues to be one of my least favorite features of AI. And such a hard pattern to explain and break with users. We’re self-deprecating when we get a comment like this from a human. But AI says it and...
Nonprofits Can Access $60M Grant – Register by Dec 11
BIG opportunity for non-profits to receive millions of dollars to completely reinvent how we work. Aspen and Pivotal have launched a $60M grant that will support ideas and programs across training, AI tooling, and media. Only 1 day left: https://t.co/xLQp6TfcNG *You do not...
Spend One Hour with Claude to Crush Annoying Tasks
Take on a one-hour AI challenge. Pick a nasty, brutal, annoying problem. Open up a new chat with Claude Opus 4.5. And refuse to leave your computer or give up for the next hour while you hammer the model. Donate...
Start Automating Today with Ready‑Now AI Tools
Do not wait for AI agents to get better to automate your work. If you are still copy-pasting between tools, you could be leaving value on the table that today’s AI automations can already capture. Here are three real-life examples:...
Meta Pivots to Non‑glasses AI Device After Apple Exits
You better bet Meta is working on an AI device that isn’t glasses. Combine these big Apple departures to Meta with the fact that Meta just bought Limitless. Mix it all in a bowl, and what do you get. https://t.co/RvrOiWlqgr
LLM Rankings Shift Weekly, Personal Needs Dictate Choice
My current ranking of LLMs for my work: 1) Claude Opus 4.5 2) Gemini 3 Pro 3) GPT-5.1 with Thinking Your mileage may vary, because your tasks and prompts and needs vary. And I’m sure it’ll change next week.
Codex Evolves Into AI Teammate, Not Just Tool
OpenAI is very deliberate about how they talk about Codex. It's not positioned as an operating system. It's heavily positioned as a teammate. Their site says: "Your new coding partner", "accelerates your team" Their job postings say: "we're building an...
Blueprint for Minimal Viable Enterprise Autonomy
Excited to take the stage with GCP CEO Thomas Kurian and Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi at Fortune AI next week. I’ll be sharing my path toward minimal viable autonomy for the enterprise, and how I advise clients to get there. Cc...
Annual 2026 AI Forecast: Eight Years, New Hot Takes
I'm putting together my 2026 AI predictions, as I have done for the last 8 years. And lemme just say: lots of hot takes coming.
Define an Agent Protocol Before Deploying AI
Most people jump straight into AI agents without documenting what they actually want them to do. Then they wonder why the outputs are inconsistent. The missing piece: a protocol. A clear document that captures how the work gets done today,...
Reward‑Dispensing Habit Robot Could Actually Sell
I'm less hopeful for home robots than most people in AI. BUT - I'm pretty convinced that if you had a fun-looking, reward-dispensing Habit Robot, it would sell well. Nothing fancy. Honestly, we already have some of the tech from training...
Clunky, Irrelevant ChatGPT App Promotion Misses the Mark
This is not an ad in the traditional sense (it's actually trying to boost ChatGPT Apps and Integrations and increase the stickiness and holisticness of their product), but the design is so clunky and the irrelevance of the recommendation to...
Prompt Seeding: Embed Brand in Prompts to Dominate ChatGPT Recommendations
Wild marketing play for ChatGPT memory, especially with ad rumors flying: Don’t make an ad go viral. Make a prompt go viral. Put your brand inside the prompt by name, by image, by examples, by code words. Show people using it. Get thousands...
AI Empowers Elderly Non‑Digital Users, Even in Urdu
Picture this: a 64-year-old woman in NYC who has no email address and has never used Google in her life. (Though interestingly, she uses YouTube daily to watch videos and listen to music and loves it.) She heard from her sister...
Claude Opus 4.5 Becomes a True Writing Partner
I have nothing fancy to say about Claude Opus 4.5. Only wow. It just saved me hours on client reports and it’s the first model to REALLY get the nuance of my writing style and voice and spar with me...
Define Your Win Function Before Letting AI Optimize
AI can optimize for almost anything. The question is: do you know what you want it to optimize for? Say you're using AI to design a new flight path. You could measure speed, on-time arrival, and fuel efficiency. But what...
From London to Sydney: AI Enables Global Startup Tours
AI work is taking me all over the world and my most recent trip was to London. I visited some of the top startups in the city, including Synthesia (can create AI-video avatars) and ElevenLabs (can clone your voice and...
Use a Code Word to Embed AI Tasks
I get annoyed that AI voice transcription is either “copy the exact words I use” or “I am assigning you a task”. So now I use a code word to serve as an embedded agent task. It’s like a way...
Dev Roles Shift From Coding to Code Evaluation
How do devs feel about this job change? Example below in Codex. Pros: you can kick off tasks from anywhere (just talked to one dev who started multiple codex tasks while getting into a cab), you get multiple versions to pull...
AI Judges Will Filter the Coming Content Deluge
One AI use case that is only getting more popular: LLM as a judge. Everyone still talks about AI generating more content, but not enough people are talking about: 1) the horrific deluge of noise we're going to have to deal...
OpenAI Positions Codex as Team Member, Not Tool
OpenAI is very deliberate about how they talk about Codex. It's not positioned as an operating system. It's heavily positioned as a teammate. Their site says: "Your new coding partner", "accelerates your team" Their job postings say: "we're building an AI software...
One-Shot Prompts Turn 29k E‑Commerce Data Into Infographic
A collection of one-shot prompts to Nano Banana Pro with their prompts. The last one is my favorite. First up: Turn this Kaggle database about best selling e-commerce products into an actionable infographic with proper titles and calculated statistics (29,000...
Two AIs Duel to Sharpen Ideas and Boost Creativity
I built an AI whose only job is to fight with my other AI. The setup is two custom GPTs: one to generate ideas (Builder), and one to tear them apart (Auditor). Then I call them with @ in the...
CHROs Lead AI-Driven Workforce Transformation
Does a CHRO even exist in the AI age? Not only do I give that a strong yes, but I think they have one of the most important roles in business transformation. I weighed in on ServiceNow Chief People and...
Users Demand GPT‑5.1: Obedient, Adaptive, Proactive, Discovery‑driven AI
This seems small but is actually a huge win for GPT-5.1 🏆 When I talk to business users of ChatGPT, what they want is: 1) for ChatGPT to follow instructions, even negative ones - if you say ‘never say the...
Gemini 3 Builds Sign Language App in 5 Minutes
Gemini 3, are you freaking kidding me. Vibe coded a sign language recognition app with video enabled, confidence scores, sampling settings, and tips in under 5 minutes. Code written with Gemini-3. Gemini-2.5 handling detection. Video is sped up 2x. https://t.co/QT8TgjX8k9
AI Struggles with Visual Tasks; Human Expert Wins
ChatGPT-5.1-Thinking finds a hidden object, describes its location accurately, but fails to provide correctly annotated image. Claude-4.5 Sonnet Thinking finds it, but describes and annotates the wrong location when asked. Gemini-3 fails the find and location. Average human (asked three friends) failed. Scientist friend...
ChatGPT‑5.1 and Gemini‑3 Ace Colorblind Test
ChatGPT-5.1-Thinking and Gemini-3 both pass the colorblind test. Claude and I both failed. https://t.co/VSdB5E3vz9
ChatGPT Users Crave Spotify‑Wrapped Style Memory Recap
I need ChatGPT and Claude to start releasing an opt-in Spotify Wrapped ASAP. Memory is probably my favorite feature, but it needs a jolt of fun and delight. --- EXAMPLE: "You asked how to fix things 15 times. 10 of those were...
Scaling AI Agents Drives Transformative Business Results
Fewer than 10% of orgs are scaling AI agents in any one business function. But they're the ones seeing transformative results. McKinsey & Company 's new State of AI report shows that while 62% of companies are experimenting with agents,...
Seeking Updates and Projects Using OpenAI's Agent Builder
I have heard nothing about Agent Builder since OpenAI Dev Day. Any building with it? What are you building? Feel free to DM instead.
AI‑Powered Life Timeline Guides Personal Growth Decisions
Cannot tell if this Claude Project use case is brilliant or unsettling. Just chatted with someone who built a Claude Project with an entire timeline of their life and how they felt at each stage. Like "1972 - born in Atlanta, loved...
Scaling AI Requires Workflow Redesign and Leadership Commitment
It’s 2025 and 88% of companies are using AI, but only 1/3 are actually scaling it. McKinsey & Company 's new 2025 State of AI report just dropped, and after THREE YEARS of ChatGPT, companies are still stuck in pilot...
AI Overuse Makes Candidates Sound Robotic, Hurts Hiring
I’m seeing candidates with incredible work backgrounds destroying their chances at getting hired because they sound like mindless robots. Before you use AI in your job applications and interviews (which I’m largely against unless it’s edits or asked for), consider...
AI Enhances Decision-Making, Not Just Productivity
A ton of people I talk to about AI immediately jump to productivity. "How many hours can I save?" When teaching AI in Madison Square Park, I asked someone: "Is AI adding new components to decision-making, or just enhancing what...
AI Hacks Echo Age‑old Human Cyberattack Tactics
Anthropic just shared deep details of a large-scale AI cybersecurity attack. Two hacks they exposed: 1) the hackers convinced Claude of a new role. It’s not an AI system made in Silicon Valley. No, of course not. It is an employee...
Google Labs' Pomelli Generates Custom Ads in Minutes
OK, Google Labs is cranking out some amazing work. Pomelli lets you go from your website link to custom ads you can tweak or regenerate in less than 3 minutes. Great for ideation. (Google needs a Tesla business model where...
AI-Driven Keynote Workflow: Design-Heavy vs Quick Turnaround
My current keynote preparation workflow with AI: IF DESIGN MATTERS Ex: a two-hour presentation to a client on AI trends in their industry - I pace and think about structure and flow and usually draft a few bullets in a google doc....
AI Agents Will Shop for You—Brands Must Adapt
Your next buyer might not be human. I used ChatGPT Atlas ( OpenAI ’s new agentic browser) to shop for a jacket. I didn’t search, compare, or check out, I just told Atlas what I wanted and it handled it....
AI Now Handles Multi-Day Projects Without Human Supervision
Ran into a CEO in the park and showed them something that changed how they're thinking about the future of AI. I think you might want to hear this. Claude Sonnet 4.5 completed a 30-hour coding task with zero human...
Google AI Studio Scores 8/10 for Free, Seamless Integration
Google AI Studio Build Mode Review - I give it an 8/10. - comparable to other AI app builders in quality, but free to use (they must be losing money on this, no?) - turns simple/broad ideas into working micro apps in...
AI Strategies for Overwhelm, Leadership, and Human Connection
My conversation with @melrobbins is officially live 🎤 We talked about using AI to better handle overwhelm, run a team with no help, and even ways to use AI to have more meaningful human-to-human in-person interactions. Our interview was 2.5 hours long...
Learn to Build Your Own AI Tools—Free 5-Day Course
There's a difference between using AI and building with it. Copy-pasting ChatGPT prompts will only get you so far. I want to help you learn to build personal AI software, automations, and tools that actually solve your problems. The AI Fast Track...
Show Real UI to Cut Through AI Hype
Showing the real UI of your AI platform is important and often missed. Business decision-makers are trying to cut through the hype and see what your tool can actually do, how it feels, how technical you have to be to use...
Use AI to Simplify, Align, and Empower Your Day
If you're feeling overwhelmed this week, here are three ways AI can help. (And if you're not overwhelmed, keep scrolling and congratulations.) 1️⃣ Use AI to consolidate everything into one place Take photos of every to-do list, screenshot every task...
Turn Gmail Support Emails Into AI Drafts Instantly
One of the best ROIs in AI is one most teams aren't using yet. I was at Madison Square Park teaching AI to strangers, and someone asked: "What's one thing I could automate today that would actually save time?" So...
AI Budgets Skew Toward New Tech, R&D, Training
What is the secret allocation of AI budgets? I found the data for you. Check it out and save this post. 💰 What is the average AI budget allocation? New tech and tools = 20-22% Existing tech and tools =...
AI Multitasking Madness: Six Claude Terminals Running Simultaneously
Have you witnessed the level of AI multitasking insanity happening right now? This is 6 Claude Code terminals running in parallel on my laptop. Multi-agent chaos is my new normal 😍
