Alec Coughlin
@Alec_Coughlin
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Infinitely curious about AI since 2016 | AI With Alec Newsletter + Podcast | @USC
Raleigh, NC
Joined April 2009
As the “LLM market structure stabilizes, the next frontier is now emerging” which “aims to endow AI systems with deliberate reasoning, problem-solving and cognitive operations” aka AI Agents and Compound AI Systems. “Generative AI’s Act o1: The Agentic Reasoning Era Begins” by
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🐐 vs 🤖.🐐=🏆.
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If an enterprise spends $10M+ with @OpenAI, they get Consulting Services replicating the model pioneered by @PalantirTech and their Forward Deployed Engineers?. Smart move by OpenAI. We’re 2 or so years into enterprises really moving towards the biggest technological paradigm
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Link to "3 Human Skills That Make You Irreplaceable in an AI World":
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Instead of “Will AI replace me?” let’s ask “What would make me irreplaceable?”. BIG s/o to @profgalloway for “3 Ways to Make Yourself Irreplaceable in the Age of AI.”. 1️⃣ ”Taste - the ability to identify what is worth paying attention to and what isn’t - is becoming increasingly
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If you’re still on the AI sidelines because you think most people aren’t seeing gains from using AI, read this research. Get in the game. You’ve got this. It's most definitely time. 🫵 🫵 🫵 🏆 🏆 🏆 . My stack-ranked, top 5. 1️⃣ Average number of minutes to complete a task
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Is AI thinking or just imitating our thinking? . A new @Apple research paper, The Illusion of Thinking, suggests these reasoning models are doing the latter. Sophisticated mimicry at a previously unimaginable scale. In an AI with Alec fireside chat, I spoke to Henry Saba to
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Link to the "Why the Forward Deployed Engineer is the Hottest Job in Startups":
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When it comes to buying and operationalizing AI, what do enterprises have in common with your grandma?. “Enterprises buying AI are like your grandma getting an iPhone: they want to use it, but they need you to set it up.”. Popularized by @PalantirTech, forward deployed engineers
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More of this.
A brotherly hug almost 10 years in the making 🫱🏾🫲🏼🤎🤍 @JellyRoll615 . Several years ago (roughly 2017) I was going through a very hard thing at the time, I was struggling. My mental wellness turned into my mental hellness. Many of you know the drill, you put on “the face”, show up
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If I told you the average employee toggles 1,200 times per day between applications, would you believe me?. In my latest AI with Alec podcast, @chuckdoerr, co-Founder + CIO of HERE (@openfintech) not only confirmed this staggering reality but laid out a number of practical ways
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When @RickRubin interviews @AnthropicAI co-Founder @jackclarkSF about AI, you get the most mind-bending explanation of how software works now. Combine that with @karpathy's framework for building with "alien intelligence," and you have the blueprint for why enterprise software
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Ambient AI.
introducing @cluely. today is the start of a world where you never have to think again. we just killed 9 industries (thread):
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Enterprise AI strategy isn’t just about adopting LLMs, it’s about fundamentally rethinking how we build software. @karpathy's outstanding presentation at @ycombinator delivered, as always, a super clean perspective on how things will unfold. The implications for how
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If you're into AI and you don't follow @lennysan, listen to his podcast and read his newsletter, today is the day to fix that.
The 20+ most common AI terms explained, simply. 1. Model.An AI model is a computer program that is built to work like a human brain. You give it some input (i.e. a prompt), it does some processing, and it generates a response. Like a child, a model “learns” by being exposed to
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