What AI Slop Actually Costs, and Who Ends Up Paying
Full post: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/p/ai-slop-costFor deeper playbooks and analysis: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/What's really happening when AI makes writing faster but leaves so...
5 Aug 15min
Why AI Bets Fail: Leverage, Timing, and Runway
For deeper playbooks and analysis: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/What's really happening when a forced AI trade and Apple's long-term hardware strategy collide?The common story is that the best...
4 Aug 12min
The 5 Levels of AI Building: Where You Actually Sit
AI has made it easier than ever to build—but having an idea is only the first rung. Nate Jones breaks down five levels of AI builders, from a promising concept to the rare ability to see what is comin...
2 Aug 14min
Agent Skills: How to Test One Before You Keep It
Your AI tools already ship with skills—but installing more of them can quietly make the results worse.Nate explains what a skill actually is, why skills are instructions rather than apps, and why the ...
1 Aug 16min
I Built The Token Saver Skill To Cut My Token Use By 90%. Here Is What It Can And Cannot Do For You.
For deeper playbooks and analysis: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/What's really happening when your tenth message to an AI can cost much more than your first?The common story is that token limit...
29 Juli 20min
Stop guessing whether a cheaper model can do the job.
For deeper playbooks and analysis: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/What's really happening when five very different AI products get collapsed into the label "Chinese models"?The common story is t...
27 Juli 24min
Find a Real Job for Your First AI Agent.
For deeper playbooks and analysis: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/What’s really happening when AI takes on customer support?The common story is that AI helps teams answer tickets faster — but th...
26 Juli 21min
Strip Sensitive Files So AI Never Sees the Private Parts
What do you do when AI could help with a document—but the document is too sensitive to upload?Airlock, a local workflow for separating the information a task genuinely needs from the private or confid...
25 Juli 13min
