Applied AI

Posts about applied AI, machine learning, and AI-powered product development

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Curiosity scales faster than policy

What does it look like to rollout your AI systems with a curiosity mindset? Have you tried to roll out an AI program at work? I think traditional policy-first approaches to AI adoption fail because they prioritize control over curiosity.…

Your workflow is your new codebase

Photo by Drew Beamer on Unsplash One of the biggest “tells” of AI use is the overabundance of elipsis (”…”), em-dash (–), and groups of three comparisons. I wrote this myself but you’d be forgiven if you immediately jumped to…

Product management for probabilistic machines

Photo by Mick Haupt on Unsplash What’s striking to me is that the gap between thinking “I could connect this bit of data with that over there and do it on a schedule” is shrinking rapidly. Pretty soon we’re going…

The Paradox of Automation

Photo by 愚木混株 Yumu on Unsplash Automation often seems easy and hides an underlying truth. Every time you automate a step, you don’t erase all the work. Spoiler: You advance the workflow to reach the next bottleneck. In practice, you…

The hidden cost of half-automations

Photo by Christian Stahl on Unsplash Automations are amazing when they work. They let us respond to a query, route a ticket instantly, or fill in the blanks to make it easier to complete a manual process. These scripts or…

Content management needs to be core technology

When content is out of date, customers get confused Content management is not typically the top item on your list of technology to build. The simple reason is that strictly speaking, you don’t need to build that technology. It’s just…