AI in 2025
from the great truncation
I am seeing in real time people who have no idea how to pull their feelings out of them...and to have a tool help them connect these hard-to-see dots in their life and perhaps even make sense of some of their madness.
Becoming unLLMable
The key thing to take away from this is that the real expertise here isn’t doing the work. It’s knowing how to guide the work. How to evaluate the work. It’s knowing what is worth prompting — which is really just another way of saying: knowing what’s worth doing.
I saw someone define modern art as:
Modern art = You could do that + Yeah, but you didn’... See more
I saw someone define modern art as:
Modern art = You could do that + Yeah, but you didn’... See more
Sari Azout • Becoming unLLMable
The omnipresent do-anything button of AI is certainly tempting. And companies including OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft are encouraging such behavior while hoping to prove out their investment in AI tools.
If you use AI to write me that note, don’t expect me to read it
Technology doesn’t just make old tasks easier —it creates entirely new standards.
Before washing machines, families washed clothes maybe twice a year.
After that, weekly laundry became the norm.
Technology doesn’t exist in a vacuum.
We respond to technology.
I’ve personally felt this shift.
One of the litmus tests I use before releasing any work is—is ... See more
Before washing machines, families washed clothes maybe twice a year.
After that, weekly laundry became the norm.
Technology doesn’t exist in a vacuum.
We respond to technology.
I’ve personally felt this shift.
One of the litmus tests I use before releasing any work is—is ... See more
Sari Azout • Becoming unLLMable
the term AI is a huge disservice and collective intelligence is a far more accurate term.
Because if you strip LLMs to their essence, they are just a much better way of using statistics to aggregate human intelligence and connect everything we’ve all done together to get more use out of it.
Once I saw that, I couldn’t unsee it.
Because if you strip LLMs to their essence, they are just a much better way of using statistics to aggregate human intelligence and connect everything we’ve all done together to get more use out of it.
Once I saw that, I couldn’t unsee it.
Sari Azout • Becoming unLLMable
You know, so many of us in tech, we tend to see the world through the lens of technological determinism, where we believe the course of history will play out according to what is technologically possible.
But the most exciting breakthroughs won’t come from technology. They’ll come from how these new tools reshape our understanding of ourselves and o... See more
But the most exciting breakthroughs won’t come from technology. They’ll come from how these new tools reshape our understanding of ourselves and o... See more
Sari Azout • Becoming unLLMable
LLMs may soon do many things we once thought only humans could.
But we’ll keep moving up the stack.
We’ll take those outputs as inputs—and dream bigger.
Some human skills will be commoditized.
But human beings will not.
We are unLLMable.
But we’ll keep moving up the stack.
We’ll take those outputs as inputs—and dream bigger.
Some human skills will be commoditized.
But human beings will not.
We are unLLMable.