On LLM Wiki, compounding knowledge, and what it means to actually understand something If, like me, you are something of a note taking nerd, then you are likely aware of the content collector's fallacy. This is the habit of collecting information but not actually using it, and it
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The biggest story over the last couple of weeks is ClawdBot—or OpenClaw, as it's now known after Anthropic weighed in. OpenClaw is an example of a desktop native agent which you primarily interact with through email or messaging platforms. It has generated so much interest that it
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Anthropic spent the last ten days building a new tool called Cowork. Although it's still a research project, it sparked intense reactions: hailed as the AI tool we've been waiting for, proof that agents are finally real, and an existential threat to enterprise software companies. Stock
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As many knowledge workers prepare to head back to work on Monday to wrestle the bear called January it is natural to wonder what the year might hold for us. From an AI perspective we saw focus shift from using AI as a companion in the form of a chatbot
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What does it mean to be productive in 2026? One of the proverbial hammers that AI evangelists keep banging on about is how we are going to so much more productive. I don't necessarily disagree with that but if this is going to be the measuring stick we
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If there was one overarching technology trend for 2025 then the evolution of AI from glorified search tool to a partner that can actually perform useful tasks for us is probably a prime contender. It seems fitting that as the year draws to a close agents and their trustworthiness took
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Is that the light at the end of the tunnel we see or an approaching train? As 2025 draws to a close it seems a good time to step back from the torrent of press releases and news stories to consider what exactly AI is doing for/to us and
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