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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 15h

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

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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 20/08/2026

AI will break your company's inboxes.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 18/08/2026

No, the Gen Z jobs crunch is not the economy any longer. It's AI. digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/project…

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 17/08/2026

Open models can now replace frontier models, IF you give them the right harness. www.chrismdp.com/the-harness-is-the…

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 16/08/2026

AI detection is security theatre. If you need to know where work came from, build a record into the workflow instead. Related: www.chrismdp.com/ai-guardrails-do-n…

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 14/08/2026

It's my birthday today, and this photo was taken last month on a family holiday in Florida: very little AI, lots of rollercoasters. www.chrismdp.com/i-dont-want-an-ai-…

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 13/08/2026

might as well get them used to it

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 12/08/2026

It is much easier to tell whether an old book is useful than whether a new book is useful. www.chrismdp.com/the-slow-and-dange…

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 11/08/2026

Frontier labs are clamouring to say their agents misbehaved because they want AI to be regulated, which helps their business models. www.chrismdp.com/your-bot-is-your-r…

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 07/08/2026

I cringe when I read some of my early AI writing efforts.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 06/08/2026

I'm a bit sick of the posturing, but model escapes are worth understanding properly. www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/incident-repor…

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 04/08/2026

Everybody in every organisation must hear these two messages about AI. I'm posting more videos over the next few weeks - follow me for more on making sure your rollout actually adds value, rather than just making a mess.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 03/08/2026

What do you most want to hear about on getting the most out of AI? Reply below and I'll post about it! I'm taking a break from my regular webinar series and instead posting a bunch of videos on what makes the difference with AI. Let me know the topics you want to hear about!

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 01/08/2026

So much happened in AI whilst I've been away! OpenAI had a major model escape, Kimi K3 gave Fable a run for its money, and the scale of the distillation challenge and the sheer speed of the cost collapse of frontier intelligence became very clear.

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Chris Parsons @chrismdp.com · 31/07/2026

$3,333 of frontier AI sells for $59 on China's grey market. www.chrismdp.com/intelligence-cost-…

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