A £600k plumbing firm and a SaaS startup do not need the same five things. Anyone selling you all twenty at once is selling hours, not outcomes.
Doing everything is not a strategy. It is a budget leak.
4. If your traffic is flat but your phone is still ringing, you might be winning a game you are not even measuring.
So what are you actually tracking right now - clicks, or customers?
Rand Fishkin just published zero-click search data for the UK.
For years we only had the American number. This week he and Similarweb broke it out for the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Canada.
Here is the bit most people will skip past.
3. Zero-click is real. It has been climbing for years. Reacting to the percentage every quarter is the trap.
Measure the thing that pays you: enquiries, calls, quote requests. Not the clicks on the way there.
I'm steadily dialling in my Hermes agent, and I must say I'm starting to like its personality already.
"Right Paul - I've got the data. Here's my read, and I'll be straight with you because that's what you pay for.
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My Take: The Strategy is 70% Solid, 30% Risky-as-F**k"
Karparhy is spot on - treating LLMs as simulators demystifies their “magic” & unlocks better prompting:
•no persistent self: LLMs lack recurrent state or episodic memory; each response draws from a frozen embedding space shaped by training data distributions. “You” just activates a latent persona vector, like role-playing from a statistical average.
•perspective simulation: by channeling groups (“What would a physicist/ethicist/economist debate on fusion energy?”), you tap into the model’s core: next-token prediction over diverse corpora. This yields emergent synthesis, actually akin to how human cognition blends schemas.
•implications for reasoning: over-reliance on a single “voice” risks echo-chamber outputs from finetuning biases. Multi-view prompts foster robustness, mirroring ensemble methods in ML - diversity reduces variance in predictions.
Prompt engineering as cognitive architecture design. Love this shift in mindset. Voice of reason @karpathy 👍👍👍💙💙💙
@boringmarketer Another great tutorial, thanks @boringmarketer!
However, is there any reason why you decided to use Cursor in your IDE rather than say Claude code for example?