What an AI “Co-founder” Does When You’re Not Online
Author(s): R. Thompson (PhD) Originally published on Towards AI. Real workflows, guardrails, and the surprising errors you should plan for — a practical operating guide. You have a tiny team (maybe one person). The calendar is full. The to‑do list keeps spawning …
Firmware That Reads Your Datasheet — And Talks To Your Board
Author(s): R. Thompson (PhD) Originally published on Towards AI. How an AI‑aware tool is shrinking the gap between a 200‑page PDF and a blinking LED A familiar midnight scene: you’re staring at a register map that runs for 14 pages, trying to …
Pods, Endpoints and a Smoother Future: The Hidden Simplicity of RunPod
Author(s): R. Thompson (PhD) Originally published on Towards AI. …Why infra finally feels boring (in the best possible way) If you showed me RunPod two years ago and then again today, I’d assume it was a different company. The surface looks cleaner, …
Claude Code vs Developer Skills: How Humans Still Win (And Ship)
Author(s): R. Thompson (PhD) Originally published on Towards AI. You don’t beat a nail gun by swinging a hammer harder. You win by becoming the craftsperson who decides where every nail goes. Most posts about AI coding tools argue about speed. Who …
The $0.0001 Prompt, Reimagined: Conversations, Code & the Cost of Intelligence
Author(s): R. Thompson (PhD) Originally published on Towards AI. 🎙️ How One Line of Text — and the Right Stack — Is Helping Underdogs Challenge AI Giants Let’s be real: AI isn’t cheap. Welcome to the world of the $0.0001 Prompt. It’s …
Your Browser Is Quietly Becoming an AI, And That Changes Everything…
Author(s): R. Thompson (PhD) Originally published on Towards AI. A hands-on guide to the new “agentic” web, what to keep, what to switch, and how to protect yourself while getting real work done 🔎 Credit : AI Generated Image I didn’t notice …
The Data-Powered Agent Revolution: How MindsDB Is Democratizing AI
Author(s): R. Thompson (PhD) Originally published on Towards AI. The Data-Powered Agent Revolution: How MindsDB Is Democratizing AI Picture a world in which constructing sophisticated AI agents requires nothing more than a well-crafted SQL query. Data scientists and developers are freed from …
Manus Wide Research: What Happens When 100 Agents Read for You at Once?
Author(s): R. Thompson (PhD) Originally published on Towards AI. Inside the mechanics, guardrails, and surprising edge cases of parallel research If you’ve ever tried to compare 120 products, scan 300 funding calls, or pull signals across 1,000 web pages, you know the …
Lightning AI GPU Marketplace: Breaking the Multi‑Cloud Barrier for AI Computing
Author(s): R. Thompson (PhD) Originally published on Towards AI. Lightning AI GPU Marketplace: Breaking the Multi‑Cloud Barrier for AI Computing Imagine being a small AI startup with a breakthrough idea but stuck waiting weeks to get access to GPUs. Or a research …
…Still Using Transformers? Here’s Why You’re Already Falling Behind
Author(s): R. Thompson (PhD) Originally published on Towards AI. How a physics-inspired breakthrough just solved AI’s $19.9 trillion quadratic problem — and why every tech leader should pay attention Picture this: You’re watching the latest AI-generated video, and it suddenly stutters. The …
Claude Code and the Rise of Terminal Intelligence: Are You Ready for Agentic AI?
Author(s): R. Thompson (PhD) Originally published on Towards AI. What happens when your terminal starts planning, coding, and debugging like a software engineer? 🧠 In the beginning, coding assistants were glorified autocomplete tools. Image showing the concept of Agentic AI in coding …
From Insight to Amnesia: How ChatGPT Cut Cognitive Load by 47% in MIT Study
Author(s): R. Thompson (PhD) Originally published on Towards AI. “The real danger of artificial intelligence isn’t superintelligence. It’s sub-intelligence: ours.” As ChatGPT becomes more deeply woven into our personal and professional lives — helping us brainstorm, write, organize, respond, analyze, and even …
606× Faster Than GPUs? How WaferLLM Could Power AI’s Next Century…
Author(s): R. Thompson (PhD) Originally published on Towards AI. WaferLLM: The Unseen Powerhouse Beneath the AI Hype In the endless flood of AI breakthroughs and bombastic claims, one technology hums quietly in the background, reshaping everything it touches. That technology is WaferLLM. …
3X Faster Designs, 20% Bigger Yields: How LLM 3.0 Is Reshaping Creativity and Agriculture
Author(s): R. Thompson (PhD) Originally published on Towards AI. The Leap from Words to Multimodal Wisdom Imagine standing at the crossroads of a technological revolution, where machines not only write but also see, hear, and — most remarkably — verify their own …
What If Your AI Partner Subtly Trains You Back? The Psychology of Emergent Collaboration…
Author(s): R. Thompson (PhD) Originally published on Towards AI. 🤯 What Happens When the Assistant Becomes the Composer? 🎼 In 2024, a radiologist trusted an AI’s “heatmap” over their own trained eye. Image caption not provided.This article delves into the complexities and …