Adam Klee

Founder, Licorice

[Adam Klee @publiKlee]

Giving consumers the personalized experiences they want without them worrying about how you are using their personal data shouldn't be hard

[Adam Klee @publiKlee]

How long will it take before we begin seeing some companies marketing their "hand-coded" software, charging a premium for their "traditional craftsmanship"?

[Adam Klee @publiKlee]

@emollick I'd be curious to see if employers are seeing different results in the relative capabilities of hires in the past decade vs ones in the decade before

[Adam Klee @publiKlee]

@HatesAdtech I'm typically less cynical, but after this experience it's hard not to be. Location data is a big red line for me. Lack of transparency makes it worse.

There's no good reason for them to have this data from a utility perspective and the relative feeling of invasiveness is high

[Adam Klee @publiKlee]

Underappreciated even among the more privacy-conscious is how much location data is available even through your laptop / desktop

The OS provides "location services" to enable apps & browsers to see your location within 100 yards

Don't forget to disable, esp. for browser

[Adam Klee @publiKlee]

@paulg Get more data like this (including the actual answers from students) and he'd have a good foundation to build an "AI was likely used" detection tool every school would want to use

[Adam Klee @publiKlee]

And yes, in case you're wondering, I saw a reference to "location services" appear on a website, clicked into it and realized it was WAY more accurate than I would have guessed (address of building next to mine)

Able to pinpoint apparently through wifi network visibility 👎🏻

[Adam Klee @publiKlee]

@emollick Yes, I'm a map lover...BUT the map is wonderful to play with

It's remarkable this was the output from a few prompts

[Adam Klee @publiKlee]

The other need, which presumably will become just a standard part of development platforms building with AI, will be an interface to tweak more of the settings or aspects of a given project (vs the AI just making all those decisions in a black box)

[Adam Klee @publiKlee]

One of the best write-ups on the pros and cons of working with ever more powerful AI

Reinforces for me that one of the biggest needs, and skills (even though today it is often one of the least appealing tasks in software development) in AI-dominated era will be QA

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

I've had access to Fable for a bit. A genuine jump in capability, I could feed it a 15 page design document for a project and it would work for 9+ hours and deliver terrific results.

But working with it is weird & weirder is coming

Lots of examples: https://t.co/HptkYunBzr

[Aaron Cannon @AaronLCannon]

I started talking to my co-founder like Claude

[Adam Klee @publiKlee]

https://t.co/yguYhrX1zR

[Adam Klee @publiKlee]

As someone who loves film, film-making, and writes screenplays on the side, the potential for AI to more cost effectively bring a film to life is exciting (but also feels wrong).

Still, I'm eager to try it out. Just not this part.

"The prompts were, on average, 3,000 words"

[Aaron Levie @levie]

CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis because they’re sufficiently distant from the last mile of work that still has to happen to generate most value with AI.

So when they play with AI, they see the happy path results, often not considering the next 10 or 20 things that have to happen to get sustainable results from agents.

“Look I made this awesome product prototype”. Yes but you didn’t have to review the code before it went into production and fix a bunch of issues.

“Look I generated a contract”. Yes but you didn’t verify all the terms before it goes out to the counterparty and didn’t have to wire up all the past contracts to work with.

The best thing you can do as a CEO is to use AI a *ton* to figure out the real implications of agents in the enterprise, and come out the other side with an appreciation for both the upside and the real work that goes into them.

[Adam Klee @publiKlee]

@emollick i'm seeing more and more people write with tpyos and no punctuation, capitalization

just to say "really, I wrote this"

[claire vo 🖤 @clairevo]

pov: your 15,000 line vibecoded PR hits production

[Adam Klee @publiKlee]

@AdtechGod I think creators / personal brands will grow in significance. And data tied to users will evolve. And those with the largest supply pools will continue to dominate.

But companies’ growing demand for transparency and consumers' for autonomy will continue. And that requires trust.

[Adam Klee @publiKlee]

@AdtechGod I think it will be trust

The fundamental nature of advertising won't change

AI models are just (presumably) improved versions of what exists today. And those are based on good data and places to use it.

To do that you need to gain publisher trust and consumer trust

[Adam Klee @publiKlee]

@Kantrowitz SV underestimates just how much people don't like many of the wealthiest people in the world being so smug and fatalistic about the way the world will turn out.

And yes, Schmidt should criticize his peer industry CEOs before blaming young people's fears on social media

[Adam Klee @publiKlee]

@Kantrowitz The bigger issue here, even beyond just AI, is the mix of arrogance and paternalism that comes out of Silicon Valley. And Schmidt is wrong re: pinning this on social media. Amodei, Altman and even Musk have all said it will lead to mass job loss.

[Adam Klee @publiKlee]

...driving more publisher engagement with less dependency on a single tech partner while enabling individuals to grow their own brand and earnings opportunity

https://t.co/q3Xu0miO3N

[Adam Klee @publiKlee]

While the question of how much the name of a writer or "talent" should be promoted vs the media brand itself has always been debated, the need for social referrals to replace search drop-off is changing the factors in those calculations

The good news: this could be a win-win...