Tagged: AI
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When Code Is Free: 9 Things That Still Matter
Network effects, data, distribution, trust, ideas. When anyone can ship anything, everything that isn't code matters more.
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Building for an Audience of One
Software got easier to build. The mindset is harder to change.
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Claude Shannon's Maze-Solving Mouse
In 1952, Claude Shannon built a mechanical mouse that could solve a maze. The clever twist: the intelligence wasn't in the mouse — it was in the floor.
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The Spark
What skills should students focus on as AI reshapes the job market? The answer is simpler than you might think.
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We're all product managers now!
With the rise of AI coding, every programmer, analyst, designer and end-user has become a product manager. The question is: how do we become good ones?
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Only for Sissies
The reception of Fortran in the 1950s sounds uncannily familiar. A passage from Richard Hamming's 'The Art of Doing Science and Engineering'.
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AI is eating SaaS
We just cancelled $32,000/year in SaaS subscriptions and replaced them with tools we built ourselves in about two days each.
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AI Fundamentally Changes the Startup Funding Game
What took $1M+ to build three years ago now takes two people a few weeks. The constraint has shifted from building to distribution.
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Hybrid AI and UI Is the UX of the Future
Building a slide deck with Claude Code convinced me: the hybrid AI and UI mode of working is the UX of the future — and we're currently over-rotating on chat interfaces.
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The Future Isn't About Letting AI Use Software
Today's AI agents simulate a human at a screen — mouse clicks, pixel-reading, typing into UI fields. That's a crude stop-gap. The future is software built for AI, not AI pretending to be human.
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Could Creativity Just Be Hallucination With a Purpose?
Reasoning models hallucinate more, not less. Which raises a strange question: is creativity just bullshitting with intent?
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Vertical Enterprise AI: Standalone, Add-ons, or Marketplace?
Vertical AI for legal, finance, and dev tools is clearly going to be huge. But nobody knows yet how it will integrate with horizontal platforms — or if it will at all.
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ChatGPT Has All but Won the Consumer AI Race. Enterprise Is a Different Story.
Enterprise AI isn't winner-takes-all. It will be won company by company, probably with a dash of vertical AI on the side.
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The future is headless
The real power of AI lies in making LLMs better at using external tools, APIs and headless software.
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Your spreadsheets, supercharged: Deploy as APIs & integrate with AI
Spreadsheets are programs. You can easily make them part of your software stack for AI and automation.
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App Stores for ChatGPT and Claude
Imagine browsing and installing capabilities for your AI assistant, the way you install apps on your phone. It's inevitable.
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Bringing Spreadsheets Into the AI-First Era
The fusion of AI and spreadsheets requires a fundamental rethinking: not bringing AI to spreadsheets, but reimagining spreadsheets for the AI-first era.
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LLMs as the Interface to Everything
In the near future, we won't 'open PowerPoint' or 'go to Asana'. We'll simply describe what we want to accomplish, and the LLM will handle the rest.
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AI Workspaces and Function calls
These are key drivers transitioning LLMs from single-player, generic use to broad commercial adoption in the workplace — but what are they…
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Building a High-Performance Spreadsheet Engine: The Quest for Compatibility and Speed
How rigorous testing and real-world benchmarking help us match Excel and Google Sheets while delivering lightning-fast calculations.
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ChatGPT vs. Spreadsheet powered AI
ChatGPT is not ready for spreadsheet models. It will give you wrong results … and confidently so.
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The Air Canada Chatbot Problem
Air Canada's chatbot gave a customer incorrect bereavement fare pricing. A court held the airline liable. It's an early preview of the reliability problem at the heart of AI.
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Introducing: Spreadsheet Powered AI
LLMs are transforming how humans and computers interact. But they need specialized tools for facts and calculations. That's where spreadsheets come in.
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Let Large Language Models handle language
Leave facts to databases, calculations to algorithms, and let LLMs finally bridge the gap between human and computer languages.
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Can Generative AI do 10% of Human Tasks?
If generative AI can handle even 10% of human tasks, the productivity gains could double global IT spending. Sam Altman and Satya Nadella think it will.
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When all roads lead (back) to spreadsheets
GRID doubles down on spreadsheet modeling
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How we built a GPT-3 powered spreadsheet formula assistant
It allows our users to write a description of the calculation they’re looking to do and receive a suggested formula in return.
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Generative AI and spreadsheets
Large language models won’t replace financial modelers any time soon, but are here to assist them already
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The 20 Best Spreadsheet Quotes
In GRID’s deep dive into the world of spreadsheets, we’ve come across a lot of insightful, witty and sometimes somewhat distressing quotes…
