Simon Smith on AI

You're Not Extrapolating Enough

Most people still plan for AI as if today’s limits will last. They won’t.

Sep 18 • 

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Proprietary Data Won’t Save You From AI Disruption

Speed to scale matters more, and if your data is truly valuable it will be valuable enough to get in other ways

Sep 14 • 

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August 2025

Five Keys to Successful AI Transformation

What I've seen work—and not—across hundreds of companies, case studies, and reports

Aug 27 • 

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July 2025

A Million Tokens Won’t Pay Your Rent

Universal Basic Compute is an interesting idea, but like income and services it falls short on its own

Jul 31 • 

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The AI Browser Wars Have Begun

A smarter front end for the web is coming—and with it, a very different internet economy

Jul 11 • 

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June 2025

The Disappearing Interface

From screens to protocols: AI is disrupting decades of reliance on apps and websites

Jun 26 • 

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Welcome to the Latent Reputation Economy

In a world where AI never forgets, your actions today define how it treats you, your brand, and your business—forever

Jun 9 • 

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May 2025

Stop Building Internal Chatbots

With AI products improving rapidly and employees using them in secret, companies that build instead of buy risk slowing teams and increasing risks

May 31 • 

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ChatGPT 2026

Sam Altman's vision is clear: A personalized, pervasive, proactive superintelligence that acts as your life's operating system

May 14 • 

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From General Intelligence to Personal Intelligence

Memory turns good AI into great AI but also raises the stakes, so learn how to use it before it uses you

May 9 • 

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Better Ways to Benchmark AI Today

A practical guide for when leaderboards don’t tell the full story

May 2 • 

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April 2025

Be Careful What You Wish For

How optimizing AI models for human preference backfired

Apr 28 • 

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