Artificial Ignorance
At the intersection of engineering and intelligence. Essays, analysis, tactics, news, and more. Click to read Artificial Ignorance, by Charlie Guo, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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2026 13
- Agentic Primitives 101
- Voice Agents Can Just Do Things
- It’s Been a Minute
- The Bots Are Reading Along
- BYOB: Build Your Own Benchmark
- The Emerging "Harness Engineering" Playbook
- GPT-5.3-Codex and Claude Opus 4.6: More System Card Shenanigans
- The Codex App Has Upended My Daily Workflow
- Humans Welcome to Observe
- Skills, Tools and MCPs - What’s The Difference?
- The AI Manager's Schedule
- On Joining OpenAI
- 10 AI Stories That Shaped 2025
2025 85
- AI Roundup 150: Empire State Defiance
- AI Roundup 149: Flash Forward
- AI Trends for 2026
- AI Roundup 148: GPT-5.2
- AI Roundup 147: OpenAI's Code Red
- AI Roundup 146: Opus Day
- AI Roundup 145: Gemini 3
- Gemini 3 and Google’s Antigravity Trajectory
- AI Roundup 144: Agentic espionage
- AI Roundup 143: Agent provocateur
- Is a CS Degree Still Worth It?
- AI Roundup 142: Layoff season
- AI Roundup 141: The browser wars continue
- The Field Guide to AI Slop
- AI Roundup 140: ChatGPT After Dark
- Revisiting "Intelligence Drift"
- AI Roundup 139: The one about OpenAI
- Recap: OpenAI DevDay 2025
- AI Roundup 138: Sora 2
- Claude 4.5 Sonnet and Anthropic's Coding Legacy
- AI Roundup 137: The Vibes are off
- AI Roundup 136: If anyone builds it, everyone dies
- From Goldfish to Elephants: AI Memory In Practice
- AI Roundup 135: Feature parity
- Anthropic Might Legally Owe Me Thousands of Dollars
- AI Roundup 134: The young and the jobless
- The Chatbot Wars Are Over. What Comes Next?
- AI Roundup 133: Nano banana
- AI Roundup 132: The B-word
- AI Roundup 131: GPT-5's rocky rollout
- AI Roundup 130: GPT-5
- AI Roundup 129: Personal Superintelligence
- AI Roundup 128: AI Action Plan
- AI Roundup 127: ChatGPT Agent
- AI Roundup 126: Good Grok / Bad Grok
- The GPT Era
- AI Roundup 125: The war for AI talent
- Idle Thoughts On Programming and AI
- AI Roundup 124: $uperintelligence
- AI Roundup 123: Video killed the image gen star
- How We Use AI At Pulley
- AI Roundup 122: Economies of Scale
- The State of AI Engineering (2025)
- AI Roundup 121: Digital doldrums
- How To Fall Behind in The Age of AI
- AI Roundup 120: DeepSeek's back
- The Claude 4 System Card is a Wild Read
- AI Roundup 119: I/O, io, Codex, Claude
- SEO for AI: A look at Generative Engine Optimization
- AI Roundup 118: AlphaEvolve
- AI's Missing Multiplayer Mode
- AI Roundup 117: Google Killer
- OpenAI's $3B Bet
- AI Roundup 116: LlamaCon / Meta AI
- Why I'm Skeptical of AGI Timelines (And You Should Be Too)
- AI Roundup 115: US v. Google
- AI Roundup 114: One of those weeks
- The MCP Revolution
- AI Roundup 113: Liberation Day
- Llama 4 is a technical triumph and a strategic stumble
- AI Roundup 112: OpenAI might be open again
- AI Roundup 111: Gemini 2.5 Pro
- GPT-4o and the end of diffusion's dominance
- AI Roundup 110: Siri stumbles
- Breaking Into AI Engineering
- AI Roundup 109: Manus
- AI Roundup 108: Vibecoding
- Introducing the Model Memo
- Hallucinations Are Fine, Actually
- AI Roundup 107: GPT-4.5
- Claude 3.7 and the banality of reasoning
- AI Roundup 106: Grok 3
- AI Roundup 105: AI Action Summit
- Two years of Artificial Ignorance
- AI Roundup 104: Deep Research
- Native Speakers
- AI Roundup 103: The DeepSeek edition
- DeepSeek: Frequently Asked Questions
- AI Roundup 102: The Stargate Project
- R1 is reasoning for the masses
- AI Roundup 101: Strange bedfellows
- The greatest movies never made
- AI Roundup 100: CES
- AI predictions for 2025
- AI Roundup 099: Apocalypse Not
2024 105
- 10 AI stories that shaped 2024
- o3 is important, but not because of benchmarks
- AI Roundup 098: Flash Thinking
- Small newsletters, big ideas
- AI Roundup 097: Model Mayhem
- Stop begging for JSON
- AI Roundup 096: Happy Shipmas
- Has YC hit peak AI? (F24)
- AI Roundup 095: QwQ
- Case Study: Scaling customer intelligence
- AI Roundup 094: Pixtral et Le Chat
- Workshop: Enough GPT To Be Dangerous with Sairam Sundaresan
- AI Roundup 093: Diminishing returns
- The Chatbot Trap
- AI Roundup 092: Watermarking the AI wave
- AI Roundup 091: Search wars
- What AI models really think about politics
- AI Roundup 090: Computer Use
- AI's invisible instructions
- AI Roundup 089: Adobe MAX
- AI Roundup 088: Movie magic
- How to build an AI search engine (Part 2)
- AI Roundup 087: DevDay SF
- How to build an AI search engine (Part 1)
- Workshop: Prompt Engineering for Claude
- AI Roundup 086: Llama 3.2
- YC is now 80% AI startups (S24)
- AI Roundup 085: You win some, you Newsom
- OpenAI's o1 is a misunderstood model
- AI Roundup 084: Strawberry / o1
- The fable of Reflection 70B
- AI Roundup 083: Bioacoustics
- LLMs are getting dumber and we have no idea why
- Workshop: Midjourney Masterclass with Daniel Nest
- AI Roundup 082: System prompts
- Blade Runner 2024
- AI Roundup 081: Creative differences
- AI Roundup 080: Grok 2
- How to reverse engineer the Substack (or any!) web API
- AI Roundup 079: Don't call it an acquisition
- How a $3000/hour escort uses AI to automate sex work
- AI Roundup 078: Voice mode
- The SearchGPT Paradigm
- AI Roundup 077: A good week for open-source
- Looking a gift llama in the mouth
- AI Roundup 076: Grand theft audio
- The science and art of jailbreaking chatbots
- AI Roundup 075: Levels of AGI
- The State of AI Engineering (2024)
- AI Roundup 074: Amazon's Adept acquisition
- AI Roundup 073: Music make you lose control
- Saving the world with AI and government grants
- Milestones, motivations, and miscellany
- AI Roundup 072: The new new Claude
- Honey, I joined a cabal
- AI Roundup 071: How do you like them AIs
- The hidden side of Apple Intelligence
- AI Roundup 070: AI whistleblowers
- I fell for a deepfake Elon Musk’s cryptocurrency scam bait
- How to leverage long form content with AI
- AI Roundup 069: Project Greymatter
- Distributing the future
- AI Roundup 068: The ScarJo thing
- From Stable Diffusion to Stable Everything
- AI Roundup 067: GPT-4o and Google I/O
- GPT-4o and the illusion of AGI
- AI Roundup 066: AlphaFold 3
- AI and the workplace
- AI Roundup 065: The gpt2-chatbot mystery
- Tutorial: How to streamline your writing process with Whisper and GPT-4
- AI Roundup 064: Big Tech's small models
- Getting to the top of the GPT Store (and building an AI-native search engine, too)
- AI Roundup 063: Llama 3
- Who in their right mind would do an AI hardware startup
- AI Roundup 062: Data is the new oil
- How Intercom is transforming customer support with AI
- AI Roundup 061: The AI innovator's dilemma
- Y Combinator's AI boom is still going strong (W24)
- AI Roundup 060: Another CEO gone
- Jevons Paradox and the future of programming
- AI Roundup 059: In̶f̶l̶e̶c̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ Microsoft AI
- States are racing ahead of Congress to regulate deepfakes
- AI Roundup 058: Devin and SIMA
- The subscriptionization of AI
- AI Roundup 057: Claude 3
- Why Claude 3 is a big upgrade
- AI Roundup 056: Data deals
- Tutorial: How to narrate video with Sora, GPT-Vision, and ElevenLabs
- Bridging AI and human creativity
- AI Roundup 055: Race conditions
- Groq, Gemini, and 10x improvements
- AI Roundup 054: Ten million tokens
- Dealing with AI fatigue
- AI Roundup 053: Bye bye Bard
- AI's massive cash needs are Big Tech's chance to own the future
- AI Roundup 052: AI, EO, DPA
- Lies, damned lies, and benchmarks
- AI Roundup 051: The Taylor Swift thing
- Funding a new generation of AI companies
- AI Roundup 050: Synthetic Geometry
- GPTs won't make you rich
- AI Roundup 049: Down the Rabbit hole
- What are logprobs?
- AI Roundup 048: The Robot Constitution
- The AI research tool that saves me hours every week
2023 98
- AI Roundup 047: NYT v. OpenAI
- 10 AI predictions for 2024
- AI Roundup 046: AI has a CSAM problem
- Who's winning the AI arms race?
- AI Roundup 045: Google's just getting started
- 10 of the most impactful AI stories of 2023
- AI Roundup 044: Google Gemini
- The ideologies fighting for the soul (and future) of AI
- AI Roundup 043: Happy birthday, ChatGPT
- The Industrial Content Revolution
- AI Roundup 042: sama drama
- How to talk to your family about AI over the holidays
- AI Roundup 041: Lyria
- A stroll through Google's Model Garden
- AI Roundup 040: GPTs
- Tutorial: How to make and share custom GPTs
- OpenAI’s DevDay: The biggest announcements
- AI Roundup 039: The governance issue
- What President Biden's AI executive order actually means
- AI Roundup 038: Preparedness
- Tutorial: How to fine-tune ChatGPT
- AI Roundup 037: The AI IPCC
- The AI email startup that's taking on Gmail
- AI Roundup 036: The money pit
- The State of AI Engineering (2023)
- AI Roundup 035: Me or your lying eyes
- Why now?
- AI Roundup 034: Meta Connect
- Pitfalls of building with large language models
- AI Roundup 033: DALL·E 3
- The intern and the coach
- AI Roundup 032: The Insight Forum
- Tutorial: How to build an AI agent (Part 2)
- AI Roundup 031: Think of the children
- Lessons from 139 YC AI startups (S23)
- AI Roundup 030: OpenAI's $1B revenue
- I gave ChatGPT access to my Gmail
- AI Roundup 029: Hug all the faces
- Tutorial: How to build an AI agent (Part 1)
- AI Roundup 028: Sunak's Safety Summit
- Tutorial: How to chat with your documents
- AI Roundup 027: Challenge accepted
- How Shopify is making AI Magic
- AI Roundup 026: AudioCraft
- AI Zoology: Why are there so many animal models?
- AI Roundup 025: AI watchmen
- Harnessing AI for your organization
- AI Roundup 024: The Llama King
- Why the latest Llama is making waves
- AI Roundup 023: Claude: The Sequel
- OpenAI's top competitors
- AI Roundup 022: Superalignment
- The emergence of AI Engineering
- AI Roundup 021: Mosaic joins the three comma club
- AI platform quicksand
- AI Roundup 020: AI is eating the world
- How to write a great ChatGPT prompt
- AI Roundup 019: The church of ChatGPT
- Three ways to chat with your documents
- AI Roundup 018: Apple's "AI" aversion
- Review: The best AI website generators
- AI Roundup 017: Extinction risk
- AI Roundup 016: Microsoft’s Copilot era
- How do you regulate a superintelligence?
- AI Roundup 015: Mr. Altman goes to Washington
- The AI apocalypse isn't what you should be worried about
- AI Roundup 014: The Google I/O AI extravaganza
- Review: The best AI slide decks
- AI Roundup 013: The "Godfather of AI" has some regrets
- Review: The best AI-generated voices
- AI Roundup 012: The music industry is about to get weird
- Dismiss the AI hype at your own risk
- AI Roundup 011: Another viral AI moment (feat. Drake)
- Building an e-commerce brand with AI
- AI Roundup 010: Amazon's big AI announcement
- Exploring the hidden potential of ChatGPT prompts
- AI Roundup 009: Italy, industry, and image detection
- The new frontrunners in the AI arms race [April 2023]
- Reviewing 112 YC AI startups (W23)
- AI Roundup 008: This is why we can't have nice things
- Using AI to create gratitude at scale
- Dare to imagine better user experiences
- AI Roundup 007: GPT everywhere all at once
- Start creating AI-generated images with Midjourney
- AI Roundup 006: So many announcements
- How AI image generators work
- AI Roundup 005: Fraud, FAANG, and VFX
- I made an Alexa
- AI Roundup 004: OpenAI Opens APIs
- A deep dive on AI-generated voices
- Hands on with Resemble AI & ElevenLabs
- Timeline: AI Legal Developments
- AI Roundup 003: So long, Sydney
- Why ChatGPT won't kill Google
- AI Roundup 002: Bing's been busy
- What Is ChatGPT?
- AI Roundup 001: Prometheus and Bard
- Hello, World