Category: AI
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AI Hallucinations? The Solution Is More AI, Not Less
I’ve heard a few people say that, since generative AI systems can hallucinate, we’re alway going to have to double-check their work in great detail if we want to be confident it’s correct. I disagree. Why? Because AI systems can do much of this checking themselves. And, when the cost/benefit tradeoff is right, I believe…
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How to Build an AI Fact Checker
Journalists sometimes get things wrong. Wouldn’t it be nice if AI could help us spot when they do? I recently prototyped an LLM-powered fact checker (using web search APIs) to see if it could do just that. It looked promising! In case you’re interested in learning more, I gave a talk to the MLOps London…
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How to Use AI in Software Product Development Today
It is now clear: AI is transforming how software is developed. Anyone leading software development teams needs to be keeping a close eye on this to understand the tools’ rapidly evolving capabilities as well as their limitations and risks. Here’s a snapshot (as of January 2025) of how I think AI tools currently fit into…
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How AI Helped Me Create a #1 Product Hunt Tool in Hours
What if AI could help you generate ideas for products and build them? That’s what happened when I used AI tools to create Flowdrafter—a writing app that solves a common problem for writers. (It even became Product Hunt’s #1 productivity tool of the week!) Can AI Coding Agents Help with Marketing? My wife is a…
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What the 2023 Hollywood Writers’ Agreement Says About the Use of AI in Screenwriting
As of 27th September 2023, the Writers’ Guild of America (WGA) has ended its strike with the big studios, having reached a tentative agreement with the big studios that will now be voted on by the WGA’s members. The deal has some key terms about AI and could be a sign of what will be…
