Rebuilding management for AI
What happens to middle management in an AI-enabled workplace? It gets to focus more on the core of the job: providing alignment and shared sense-making. My take: as Tyler Cowen says, context is that which is scarce. Middle management helps build shared context, but the job must be rethought with AI in the mix. (H/t Dave Gray)
Many agents, many views
Luke Wroblewski’s UI explorations for managing agentic work. There’s a place for chat, but as agents proliferate, leaders will need both higher-level views of what’s going on and better ways of steering their behavior.
Apple and hacking with AI
Ben Thompson on macOS’s upcoming disk access controls and their implications for agentic work on Macs. But more broadly, the post explores how personal computing solutions are evolving now that we have agents. Like Thompson, I’m reconsidering my commitment to Apple’s increasingly locked-down ecosystem.
Optimizing your website for gen AI
Google’s guidelines on how to optimize web content for AI. From earlier this year, but I told a colleague about it this week and realized many content folks haven’t yet seen it. This is an emergent space but one thing is clear: even though the web is changing, some fundamentals stand.
Surfacing hyperlocal news with AI
You may not be in the news business, but your org could benefit from more contextual awareness. This case study highlights how one newspaper built an AI-powered system to sift signal from noise. TL;DR: begin with existing workflows and outputs (instead of abstractions) and build feedback loops to improve prompts.