Posted on Wed 02 September 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with GenAI, LLM, AI-agents, opinion, trends
Every timeline, every newsletter, every product launch this year has the word "agent" stapled to it. Agentic this, autonomous that. It's gotten to the point where "agent" has almost lost meaning — sometimes it means a genuinely autonomous multi-step system, and sometimes it just means "a chatbot …
Posted on Sat 29 August 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with GenAI, LLM, prompt-engineering, opinion, career
A year ago, "prompt engineer" was being talked about as a serious job title — some companies even hired for it with six-figure salaries attached. Fast forward to now, and I keep seeing the opposite take everywhere: that prompt engineering is basically over, that models got smart …
Posted on Fri 28 August 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with EffortCommerce, GenAI, LLM, valuation, contribution-economy, opinion
When I first wrote about EffortCommerce, I left one problem unsolved on purpose: valuation. If effort is the currency, someone — or something — has to decide how much an hour of expert legal advice is worth compared to an hour of data entry, or how a well-written …