Claude in Excel is really impressive. So its weird that using Microsoft's own Excel agent using Claude 4.5 usually yields weaker answers, It seems to happen because the Microsoft Excel agent relies o…



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Claude in Excel is really impressive. So its weird that using Microsoft's own Excel agent using Claude 4.5 usually yields weaker answers, It seems to happen because the Microsoft Excel agent relies o…

As jobs begin to shift with AI, I think there will be increasing numbers of people feeling like Aditya (former CTO Dropbox, early Facebook engineer, etc). I think figuring out what comes next is chal…

Every few months, I write an updated, idiosyncratic guide on which AIs to use right now. My new version has the most changes ever, since AI is no longer just about chatbots. To use AI you need to und…
Moltbook seems to have "broken through" to a wider non-AI audience. That makes it a good chance to explain the present: this time, Moltbook was mostly roleplaying by people and agents, very little of…
As a business school professor, its striking that a lot of programmers, as they increasingly delegate authority to coding agents, are re-encountering the basic problems that underlie management theory…
AI agents have rather suddenly gotten good enough at long horizon tasks that I think it represents inflection point in the impact of AI at work. Agreement on this very rapid trend from METR, GDPval &…

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