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One of Apple’s most annoying habits is changing things to make them harder for users to “make mistakes”. Almost

I’ve been thinking a lot about how I use computers this week. As I have written before (at great

A games company and a search giant tussling over Fortnight doesn’t sound like it has much to do with

On Tuesday, I attended (virtually, of course) an International Association of News Media (INMA) talk given by Benedict Evans on

How did it get to be December already? And how did it get so cold? The Byte archive I was

What does the search engine of the future look like? Forget 10 blue links… You can break down the creative

Between getting ridiculously excited about the goings-on OpenAI, I didn’t get a lot of writing done this week. There

Confused? You should be. I’m deliberately not looking at Techmeme so I don’t have to update this post

Remembering the craft and process of original reporting can help build a loyal audience. So far this week, I have

The second area where humans can do a better job than an LLM: real life storytelling One of the best

Sometimes, you just need the human touch… What kinds of content can humans do better than AI? The last few

This felt like a busy week, perhaps because it actually was On Monday I had a call with Peter Bittner,

The future is arriving a little later than expected… I have had the best life. Back in 1989, I left

Time passes. The highlight of this week was at the Royal Festival Hall on Monday, when we drove into London

LLMs remove a key competitive advantage of publishers. You need to find a new one. It still surprises me that