Field Trials: how the frontier models work for us, measured on real work
Our own field record of how AI models build, review and lead real work, with the counting rules that keep it fair.
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- If you do the workMap five real tasks from your week, without predicting your fate.
- If you run a small businessWrite a brief for one repeated irritation and test it fairly.
- If you are setting up an assistantDecide what it may do before connecting it to anything important.
- If you are weighing the argumentsFive questions to bring to any debate about AI policy.
Latest public posts
AI Can Suggest Who Decides
Imagine a community arts center losing access to one of its rooms. An AI recommends canceling the weekday music class because it has the fewest attendees.
You Cannot Unpublish a Downloaded Model
If you're worried about keeping powerful AI under control, start with a practical problem: downloaded copies can outlast the page that supplied them. In my Popeye picture, people can get their own copy of the powerful…
Popeye Needs Spinach
If you're worried America could lose influence over technology that changes your working life, I think pulling back is the wrong answer. You don't get a stronger Popeye (AI or Super Intelligence) by starving it of…
When Machines Can Do More, What Will We Still Want From Each Other?
If you make things with your hands or care for people for a living, you may be wondering whether anyone will still pay for that once a machine can produce something close in seconds. I don't think the answer is simple,…
Cheaper Software Won't Pay Everyone's Rent
If you earn your living building or selling software, every demo of AI writing code in minutes can feel like watching your price tag shrink. If you run a small business or a small nonprofit, the same demo may look like…
Your Job Is More Than Its Tasks
If you've read your own job description lately and quietly counted how many lines a chatbot could handle, that's a fair question. The worry deserves a better answer than either reassurance or a frightening headline.
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Projects
Bring Your Own LLM
Bring Your Own LLM connects participating websites to models and supported AI services on devices you control.
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Offer: Open.
Where could AI make a real difference in your business?
A free conversation about your business, where AI could help, and a practical place to start.
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Offer: Open.
Patents, trademarks and IP: a conversation with Wolf Greenfield
An invitation for founders and builders to join a group discussion about general patents, trademarks and IP questions. The date is still being arranged.
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Offer: Open.
Wrk.Dog
The back office for apps you build with AI
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Offer: Open.