One Useful Thing (Ethan Mollick)
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One Useful Thing (Ethan Mollick) community 13d ago
The Dot and the Swarm
Benefitting from the Bitter Lesson
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The Overhang
Using your deep knowledge, wide knowledge, taste, and agency
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Agency and Agents
From the Hugging Face Incident to Twilight Factories
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An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff
The Summer 2026 Edition
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The twilight of the chatbots
How work changes along the exponential
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What it feels like to work with Mythos
Claude Fable represents another big jump in AI
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Co-Existence and the End of Co-Intelligence
Also: how pitch a book to an AI!
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Choosing to Stay Human
If you go to your favorite social media site, you will find it full of posts that start to look suspiciously similar to each other:
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Sign of the future: GPT-5.5
One impressive step on the curve
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Claude Dispatch and the Power of Interfaces
We often lack the tools for the job, even if the AI is capable enough
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The Shape of the Thing
Where we are right now, and what likely happens next
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A Guide to Which AI to Use in the Agentic Era
It's not just chatbots anymore
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Management as AI superpower
Thriving in a world of agents
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Claude Code and What Comes Next
With the right tools, AI can accomplish impressive things
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The Shape of AI: Jaggedness, Bottlenecks and Salients
And why Nano Banana Pro is such a big deal
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Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3
From chatbots to agents
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Giving your AI a Job Interview
As AI advice becomes more important, we are going to need to get better at assessing it
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An Opinionated Guide to Using AI Right Now
What AI to use in late 2025
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Real AI Agents and Real Work
The race between human-centered work and infinite PowerPoints
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On Working with Wizards
Verifying magic on the jagged frontier
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Mass Intelligence
From GPT-5 to nano banana: everyone is getting access to powerful AI
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GPT-5: It Just Does Stuff
Putting the AI in Charge
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The Bitter Lesson versus The Garbage Can
Does process matter? We are about to find out.
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Against "Brain Damage"
AI can help, or hurt, our thinking
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Using AI Right Now: A Quick Guide
Which AIs to use, and how to use them
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The recent history of AI in 32 otters
Three years of progress as shown by marine mammals
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Making AI Work: Leadership, Lab, and Crowd
A formula for AI in companies
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Personality and Persuasion
Learning from Sycophants
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