“What’s the difference between a competent AI engineer and one you’d actually hire?” Jackie, one of our members, asked me this question today. Here’s what I told her. Competence is the entry ticket. The real differentiator is demonstrated curiosity. Why? ...

Yesterday, I saved my friend from AI. We were analyzing a workplace survey. 30+ questions, two groups of people. He was presenting it to 200 people at work the next day. We dropped the data into an LLM, asked it ...

A well-known American clothing brand just banned AI. All of it. Over 2,000 employees. One approved tool: Microsoft Copilot chat. No Claude Code, no Claude, no ChatGPT, no Cursor, no agents. Nothing. No AI — for anyone. I heard this ...

“I’ve become rather unpopular because of AI.” That’s what Marcus (name changed for privacy) told me recently. He works in credit risk modeling at a large, well-known bank. He joined our challenge, started learning AI, and did what enthusiastic people ...