Chris Mairs

Audio Narration0:00/410.3053061224491× A key measure of AI progress is the length of time a model can work on so called ‘long horizon tasks’ without going off the rails. Most high value real world jobs involve some ‘long horizon tasks’, i.e. tasks that take hours rather than

My life is extraordinarily good—I feel lucky and hardly notice my blindness, though I love calling it an affliction. I can accept bad infrastructure, but not lazy digital inaccessibility. Conversational voice AI can finally repay the world’s vast inclusivity debt.

LLMs can be brilliant yet bafflingly bad. Often it’s faster, cheaper, and more reliable to just write code—or better still, skip the chat entirely and do things the old-fashioned way.

AI replacing junior roles risks creating unstable, inverted corporate pyramids unless leaders and policymakers act to preserve diamond-shaped structures in industries with traditional “up-or-out” cultures.

Effective use of a Large Language Model requires effective prompting. Anthropic’s new Skills feature lets enterprises and users provide structured context that Claude loads dynamically, making prompting more reliable, consistent, and performant.

Smart glasses have real utility for vision impaired users. These glasses are however disconcerting in public places for others with privacy concerns. How can we resolve this dilemma?

Stripe and Open AI have announced an open source platform for agentic shopping and payments. This will spawn a myriad of agents that can buy anything you need and everything you don't. With a global financial system that is already a house of cards, what could possibly go wrong?

Last week’s OpenAI announcement of their Pulse Personal Assistant is significant and may usher in an era of ad supported agents. Meanwhile brands are considering Answer Engine Optimisation as the successor to Search Engine Optimisation.

Even without endless “still thinking” reminders, it’s easy to mistake AI for genuine intelligence. But LLMs can be tricked into revealing the dumb mechanics behind their illusion of thought. This post explains the trick and comments on Claude’s system prompt.

Many times people assume guide dogs have almost super human powers, and certainly extremely super canine powers. The reality is less amazing and once you understand what guide dogs can and cannot do, it becomes clear that already AI wins in some guiding scenarios.