AI Opinion & Analysis
There is a huge industry teaching people how to use AI: prompt courses, tool roundups, productivity threads without end. Almost nobody teaches the skill that is quietly becoming more valuable than any of them: knowing when not to use it. In 2026, the people doing the best work are not the ones using AI the most. They are the ones who know when to close the tab.
Read more: The most useful AI skill in 2026 is knowing when to turn it off
Read enough launch posts and you notice something strange: every new model is state of the art. All of them. Simultaneously. That cannot be true, and yet each chart is technically honest. Welcome to the benchmark wars, where nobody is exactly lying and almost everyone is being misled, gently, on purpose.
I am instinctively allergic to tech regulation written by people who have never shipped anything. A lot of the EU AI Act fits that description. It is late, convoluted, and parts of it will age badly. And yet, reading through what actually takes effect in 2026, I keep landing somewhere uncomfortable: most of it is the kind of thing the industry should have done on its own and did not.
Read more: The EU AI Act is messy, late, and probably necessary
There are enough AI blogs. Most of them read like a press release with the serial numbers filed off. This one is trying to be the thing I actually wanted to read: written by someone who uses these tools every day, likes them more than is probably healthy, and still reads the fine print.