AI
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Which AI Model Should You Use for Which Task?
In an earlier post I wrote about which tasks you should delegate to an AI agent. This one is about the very next question you run into the moment you decide to delegate: Once I’ve decided to hand a task to an agent - which model should I put behind it? It’s tempting to answer that with a single word: the best one. Reach for the biggest, smartest, most expensive frontier model, point it at everything, and stop thinking. But...
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Which Tasks Should You Delegate to AI Agents?
Asking which jobs AI will replace is probably the wrong question. A job is a bundle of dozens of tasks, held together by a title, a team, and a person who takes responsibility for the outcome. An agent doesn’t take a job – it takes a task, does it, and hands the result back. So the question worth asking is: Which tasks should I delegate to an AI agent – and which ones should I keep, at least for now?...
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The Engineering Stairway to Heaven
The word “engineering” has been through quite a journey over the last few years. When I started out, engineering meant writing code - carefully, line by line, and I have spent 40+ years of my life doing that. Today, a big part of engineering is about telling an AI what to do, giving it the right context, building the machinery around it and orchestrating the whole thing. I’ve been thinking about this as a kind of stairway - a set...
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How I moved my blog from WordPress to GitHub (the details)
In my previous post I told you that I moved this blog from WordPress to GitHub. A few people asked me how, so here is the longer, more technical version – written the way I like my blog posts: so you can go and do the same yourself. Spoiler: I didn’t do most of the typing. I described what I wanted to an AI agent (Fable 5, running in Claude Code), and it did the heavy lifting – reading my...
