My Small Answers
Adoption without understanding. Shallow literacy.
Prompt engineering as a career skill. Now loop engineering. Courses that teach you the latest tool in the most superficial way.
The hype has turned a genuinely interesting discipline into a noise machine. It’s bothered me for a while.
A busy week of delivering and building. The first run of my AI risk management course for the The Association of Banks in Singapore. A panel for private bankers. A few chats with founders asking if I’d like to advise or collaborate.
The steps below are some of my small answers to the hype.
Teaching the boring stuff
I enjoyed the first run of a deep dive into AI governance and risk management with the Association of Banks in Singapore. The content isn’t about how exciting AI is. It’s about AI risk management as a discipline and a system. Why AI fails, and what to do about it.
Everyone wants the excitement. I’ve been asked to excite an audience more than once. But what’s the point.
Get excited for what. So you can misunderstand what AI is and what it can do?
The course is my small answer to AI training that doesn’t build anything durable.
Art as a different kind of answer
A watercolour every night before bed. I illustrated for years before this, but watercolour is its own discipline, and not every piece works. Many end up in the bin. I really miss the undo button.
But the practice helps. The eye gets better. The hand gets more confident. The gap between what I see and what appears on paper gets slightly smaller.
Gradient descent, one piece at a time.
In a world where AI can generate infinite images in seconds, making something by hand at midnight grounds me. Slow. Imperfect. Irreducibly human. The progress doesn’t look like progress most nights. Just a brush in water. Pigment on paper.
My little act of rebellion in a world of hype.
AI assessment
Job AQ. Not about what tools you know, but how you think about AI - whether you understand it, can work with it, evaluate it, and own it.
Job AQ is a collaboration with Stephen Tracy . It’s our small answer to the broken world of AI training. Rather than fighting with the noise, we are coming at it from the other end: assessment rather than courses.
I’d be grateful if you tried it and told me what you think - jobaq.me.
None of these are big answers. The course is one course. The art still fails more than it succeeds. Job AQ is a 15 min exercise. But they’re what I can do.
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