English
Book
Competent Enough
A year putting artificial intelligence to the test, without fear and without hype.
I took the year's articles from my blog, reorganized and rewrote them as one story, fact-checked them again and illustrated them. It's for anyone anxious or confused about AI: the professional afraid of being replaced, the parent who read that AGI is two years away, the manager being sold an "AI transformation".
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The whole book, page by page, without downloading anything. Full screen shows two pages side by side, and the reader picks up where you stopped.
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Brazilian Portuguese
Competente o Suficiente
What's inside
Five parts, each answering a question people keep asking me about AI.
- 462
- pages in the print edition
- 20
- chapters
- 146
- terms in the glossary
- 295
- references
What is this thing, anyway
Is it intelligent? Is AGI coming?
The marathon
Does it actually work, or is it all demo?
Numbers and propaganda
Which AI is best? Should I believe the announcements?
Who holds the keys
Is it dangerous to let it touch my things?
What about my job?
Will it take my job? What comes next?
Plus two interludes, an optional appendix on how the machine works inside (no math), a timeline, practical checklists and the list of the original articles behind each chapter.
Making-of
How 131 blog posts, almost half a million words, became one book written with agents, without losing control of what it says.
- Every post went into a sealed inventory with a hash, and a lineage map says which post superseded which, so the book tells the latest state of what I measured.
- Every paragraph carries an invisible marker of the post it came from. When I edit a post, one command lists the paragraphs to review.
- Every number, date and name was checked against the posts, the reference projects and primary sources. Some of the corrections were to my own blog.
- Agents wrote the drafts. Reading, cutting, correcting and approving every chapter stayed with me.
The agents were competent enough to write the draft. Deciding what it said remained my job.
Os agentes foram competentes o suficiente pra escrever o rascunho. Decidir o que ele dizia continuou sendo trabalho meu.
Everything here is open source
The tools, the skills and the benchmark are public repositories. Fork them and build the version that fits the way you work.