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I cannot believe how much usage I'm getting from Opus 5.5 compared to Astra.

Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 29/09/2026

OpenAI has shelved GPT-6.1 Astra. Its safety lead says the model fell short on staying within its authorised scope and telling users what it had done.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 29/09/2026

Want to learn exactly how LLM work? I'd highly recommend Karpathy's videos building an LLM from scratch.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 28/09/2026

I have found the latest AIs are good enough for senior work.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 27/09/2026

Some intel on where Jev might fail to work for you (and why that doesn't always matter):

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 26/09/2026

Productive individuals do not make productive firms. AI rollout work has to become shared operating practice, or it stays as private cleverness.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 25/09/2026

I can't stand the coder gatekeeping I see everywhere! Engineering is no longer out of reach with AI.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 24/09/2026

all set up for my Design+AI workshop today! Teaching designers how to think like an engineer in their production projects - I’ll post a proper write up of session soon

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 23/09/2026

Earlier this month I left the country for four days. My AI kept the business running while I was gone.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 22/09/2026

Trump is right: "artificial intelligence" is the wrong name. "Machine Intelligence" is much better than his options though.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 21/09/2026

It looks like a bet on a) ever increasing AI capability is possible given more compute and b) demand keeps up with the capability on offer within the investment cycle. Remains to be seen whether this is a good bet: seems high risk to me

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 20/09/2026

Renaming Artificial Intelligence is definitely not the most important thing on the US president's agenda.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 20/09/2026

I've had great success with adding an automatic transcript check before adding the transcript to your personal file vault: given the context of the vault, it will often correct misspellings and prevent the proliferation of bad information.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 20/09/2026

My AI eval stack was upside down.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 19/09/2026

Really impressive demo from Ethan Mollick of using Blender to create a storyboard and then upload that to a video generator - reminds me of my using Claude Design but on steroids www.chrismdp.com/software-factories…

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 19/09/2026

AI progress still compounds. The chart is now current; the cautions about over 16 hours are on it too.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 18/09/2026

Trying lots of open models today, mostly because I've managed to hit limits on 2 OpenAI Max 20 and 1x Claude Max 20 accounts!

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 18/09/2026

Your AI demo is probably testing the easy bit.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 17/09/2026

I spent an evening testing TypeSafe's Jev against the models I already pay for. 16,000 decisions across eight real tasks. Fast and cheap, and I am still not putting it near production.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 16/09/2026

Your prompt passed your evals, but your product still failed. The fault may not actually be the prompt.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 15/09/2026

My half-day workshop at design + AI in Brighton next week has sold out!

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 14/09/2026

I'm no longer a coder, I'm a director of change. I rewrote my "coding with AI" article. It needed an update after only 5 months, because the job has now entirely changed.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 13/09/2026

Not sure Apple has quite got this right. Not sure we're ready for summarise-by-default, although it will be undeniably useful.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 12/09/2026

Agents keep asking the same questions until you tell them how you work.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 11/09/2026

The thing that stops an AI rollout dead? Tools get bought before anyone names an owner.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 10/09/2026

My webinar Make Your AI Rollout Stick starts today at 2:30pm UK / 9:30am ET. Buy the tools without naming an owner and you end up with a hundred clever prototypes and nobody who fixes them.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 09/09/2026

I used to have lots of trouble ensuring my agents finished a task (although that's far better with Astra or Fable). Luckily, the Prussian Army solved this problem 200 years ago.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 08/09/2026

I've spent thirty years in tech, and I never used to tell CEOs they had to learn the technology themselves. AI has changed that.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 07/09/2026

AI rollouts fail by default.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 06/09/2026

Making one step faster is easy.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 05/09/2026

OpenAI's Astra leans hard into computer use. Useful, yes — but leaders need to ask which parts of work people still need to practise.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 04/09/2026

AI rollouts need two phases: let people discover useful workflows, then turn the winners into supported capability.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 03/09/2026

Let's use AI for the right things, shall we?

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 02/09/2026

A thousand AI experiments is useful discovery. Organisational capability starts when the best ones get a production path.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 01/09/2026

I'm out of the country right now on an anniversary trip with Ellie (25 years!), but these agents are keeping my business running.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 31/08/2026

AI tools do not make teams fluent on their own. People need practice, space, and direction before expensive licences become useful work. www.chrismdp.com/a-thousand-flowers…

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 30/08/2026

If you're not forgetting how to use your keyboard, you're probably not using AI enough.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 29/08/2026

I've learned to automate only where validation is easy.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 28/08/2026

Leaders: if you give people bad AI tools, they'll use better dangerous ones instead.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 27/08/2026

Our teams don't need our permission to use AI - they need permission to redesign the job to take advantage of AI. That's much more challenging for organisations, and we have to be ready for it. www.chrismdp.com/feedback-is-the-ne…

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 26/08/2026

Giving every engineer Claude Code is only a licence rollout until the delivery rules change.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 25/08/2026

Seven hard-won lessons from building evals for my own agents.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 24/08/2026

The hardest thing I've found with AI software factories is design/UX.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 23/08/2026

Local AI is not a free escape from token bills.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 22/08/2026

Frustrating eval creation story: my judge kept returning nothing on one turn, so I sent the same prompt ten times at temperature zero.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 21/08/2026

When autopilots took over commercial aviation, safety improved. Then a quieter problem appeared: pilots spent less time flying by hand, and rare manual-flying moments became harder.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 20/08/2026

AI will break your company's inboxes.

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