The Research Rabbit Hole That Started This Comparison A journalist friend of mine pinged me a few weeks ago with a complaint I’ve heard more than once: “I used ChatGPT to research a story about gene-e
The Content Hamster Wheel Is Real — Here’s How People Are Getting Off It A creator friend of mine — she runs a mid-size YouTube channel about personal finance — told me something that stuck with me a
My Friend Asked If He Should Pay More for GPT-5. Here’s What I Told Him. A few weeks ago, a product manager friend sent me a voice note while I was making coffee. “AJ, OpenAI just dropped GPT-5 and I
From Zero to Working App — Faster Than You Think A colleague pinged me last month with a message that I’ve probably received a dozen variations of: “I want to build something with Claude’s API but I d
The Bar Keeps Moving — And Midjourney Keeps Clearing It A designer friend of mine sent me a message a few months back with nothing but an image attached. No caption, no context. It was a portrait — so
