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AI & The Future of Work
A newsletter at the intersection of AI and the people who have to work with it. Research findings, practical tools, and honest takes on what’s actually changing at work — and what isn’t. Published weekly and distributed on LinkedIn, Substack, Medium, and Kit.
Weekly briefing
AI Roundup
The week in AI — what shipped, what shifted, and what it means for people who have to work with it.
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AI News Roundup: The Agent Era Goes GA
OpenAI shipped GPT-5.5 and Workspace Agents in the same week, Anthropic released Claude Design and Opus 4.7, Meta trained AI on 8,000 employees' keystrokes, and SpaceX took a $60B option on Cursor. Agents are no longer a demo.
AI News Roundup: The Deployment Race Begins
Anthropic ships Claude Design and Opus 4.7, DeepMind releases Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, and Stanford's AI Index puts organisational adoption at 88 percent. The frontier race has slowed and the integration race has started.
Long-form
Articles
Essays and analysis on AI, the future of work, Claude Code, and human intelligence.
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Claude Mythos and Anthropic's Performative Caution
Anthropic built Claude Mythos, refused to sell it, and published 244 pages explaining why. A sceptical reading of the disclosure and what it may mean for work.
How to Reduce Claude Code Token Usage and Get More From Every Session
Eight practical changes to your Claude Code settings and workflow that reduce token waste per session. Tested on Pro and Max plans after Anthropic's March 2026 usage limit changes.
Claude Desktop for Business: Perhaps the Only AI Tool You Need
Most businesses that try AI go no further than the browser. Claude Desktop for business changes that, connecting directly to your tools, files, and workflows without the copy-paste cycle.
AI Won't Replace You — But Someone Using AI Will
The threat from AI isn't the technology itself — it's the widening gap between people who use it well and those who don't. Here's what that means for your career and your team.
There's No Ghost In This Machine
Why have so many intelligent adults convinced themselves that large language models are conscious? LLMs are voltage states in transistors, not thinking beings. The complexity of their output fools us because our surface-level minds cannot comprehend billions of mathematical operations.
Human vs Artificial Intelligence
The tech industry has pulled off an extraordinary sleight of hand — redefining intelligence each time AI fails at something we call intelligent. Here's what human intelligence actually is, why it can't be replicated, and what that means for your career.