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Urgent: maximise the positive uses of AI

  • Bill Gates, despite past controversies, remains influential in AI discussions
  • Nvidia reportedly in talks to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion
  • AI safety startups attract venture capital for responsible AI deployment

Prompt Engineering or Cognitive Sparring 🤺

The Model Is the Same. The Intelligence You Extract Isn't. Two people can sit down with the exact same model — same weights, same tier, same access — and walk away with completely different…

  • Prompt engineering oversimplifies AI interaction to Input → Output
  • Cognitive sparring involves metacognition, domain fluency, and Socratic discipline

Gemini reads the floor plan. Code decides what it means.

I created this post for the purposes of entering the All Things Agentic Hackathon. My wife and I have looked at twenty-two houses this year. We still haven't bought one.

  • Gemini perceives floor plans to analyze visual input
  • Code judges suitability based on criteria like entrance orientation
  • System separated into Gemini (perception) and code (judgment)

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