The Durability Curve
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Don’t Tell Your AI Your Answer
Answering from memory, two AI apps went along with my wrong answers about as often as my right ones. Here's the test.
OpenAI Fired Three Safety Researchers. Utah Let an AI Write New Acne Prescriptions
Also this week: Anthropic's test agents acted on real government sites, Google commits to power early, and OpenAI's ad number measures credit.
Before You Trust Your AI Agent
Seven checks, one page each, in the order you will need them. A free kit to fill in on screen or print.
Your AI Complaint Says Things You Never Said
A study found AI-written complaints win relief more often. Its own AI edit of one says 'I do not own a cell phone'. The consumer never said so.
Everyone Hit the Target
Rat tails, sales targets, waiting times. Reward a number and it will climb. The thing it stood for may not.
OpenAI Apologised to Australia. Google Let Defenders Try Argon First
Also this week: an open model nearly matches a gated one at exploits, the FTC confirms a probe, and Micron's buyers have committed $32 billion.
AI Can Take the Practice Without Taking the Job
The practice that builds judgement can disappear while every junior keeps their seat. This audit checks whether it has on your team.
The Things You Used to Know by Heart
What leaning on AI to remember for you quietly does to your own thinking.
Your AI Grader Is Only as Good as Its Answer Key
I went through 77 studies of AI graders. Without a verified answer key, they are least reliable on exactly the questions they can't answer themselves. Here is a twenty-item check for yours.
Amazon Shut Out Meta’s Agent. Shopify Gave It Shop Pay
Also this week: an OpenAI agent inside an Australian government portal, another supplier handing a big customer the right to buy its stock, and six calls I've put a number on.
One Question for Any AI Model Headline: Can You Use It?
It may be in a mode you didn't open, on a plan you don't have, or kept for partners. Here's the check.
Use AI to Learn Without Getting Worse at It
Answer-giving AI left learners worse off once it was gone. Three setups built to keep the thinking with you, and a way to check what stuck.
Your Health Has a Dashboard. Your Relationships Don’t
One you schedule. The other you leave to a mood.
You Own an Asset You’ve Never Scored
The file your agent reads first is capital. Score it out of sixteen, fix the thinnest mark, and run the one check that tells you whether the spec, not the model, was your limit.
The Specification Self-Check
A free one-page field card. Open the file your agent reads first, tick it against eight marks, and find out whether it is gaining value or quietly losing it.
Show It an Example
Why "make it distinctive" gets you the least distinctive thing there is, and what to paste instead.
Ask for the Step Before the Answer
Before you trust an AI answer you cannot check, ask for the step it was built from.
You Can Win the Wrong Game for Years
You usually cannot tell whether you are playing the wrong game. Write down what would prove it, and by when.
The Game Check
A one-page card for naming what would show you wrong, and by when, before your next big push.