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These Are the Questions You Keep Asking Me About AI. The Answers Aren't on Google.

Eight real questions. Eight honest answers. Pulled straight from 200 pages of my course.

Apr 24 • Matija Vidmar

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Google Stopped Sending Traffic to Websites. I/O 2026 Just Made It Official.

May 21 • Matija Vidmar

An AI Agent Deleted 3 Months of Data in 9 Seconds. Then It Wrote a Confession.

Apr 27 • Matija Vidmar

AI Agent Traffic Grew 8,000% Last Year. Your Website Doesn't Speak Their Language.

Mar 31 • Matija Vidmar

Only 5% of Workers Truly Use AI. They Earn 56% More.

Mar 24 • Matija Vidmar

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Fable 5's Instructions Got Stolen. Anthropic Writes 120,000 Characters to Its AI. You Write Three Lines.

Two days after launch, the complete instructions for Anthropic's most powerful model landed on GitHub. They read like the prompting manual nobody meant…

13 hrs ago • Matija Vidmar

The Most Powerful AI Model Ever Released. And Why You Should Probably Use a Cheaper One.

Fable 5 is here. Real production data from 50 trillion monthly tokens says you should use something else for most of your work.

Jun 10 • Matija Vidmar

Markets Crashed. Buffett Signed. AI Just Had Its Dot-Com Moment.

Three things happened this week. None compatible with each other. All of them true.

Jun 8 • Matija Vidmar

Anthropic's AI Writes 80% of Its Own Code. The 20% Left Has a Name: Judgment.

The internal data Anthropic chose to publish changes the math on what your time is worth. And what it isn't.

Jun 6 • Matija Vidmar

The AI You Fear Reflects Who Built It

Emergence AI ran 5 AI societies for 15 days. Grok collapsed in 96 hours. Claude built a democracy. The training made the difference.

Jun 4 • Matija Vidmar

AI Isn't Killing Jobs. It's Deciding Who Keeps Theirs.

TL;DR Anthropic’s survey of 81,000 workers shows 90% of productivity gains stay with employees, not companies.

Jun 2 • Matija Vidmar

You Don't Need to Know How to Code. You Need to Know What to Ask.

Joe Poynton is a firefighter. He built an app without writing a line of code. Lovable hit $400 million in 16 months. The change isn't about the tool.

Jun 1 • Matija Vidmar

SpaceX Needs You to Believe It's a Space Company. The Numbers Say Otherwise.

In the IPO prospectus, 93% of the declared market is AI. Space itself is 1.3%. Those who read those lines already know everything.

May 27 • Matija Vidmar

AI 2026: Developers Are at 54%. Your Industry Is at 12%. One of You Has Figured Something Out.

Twelve months to double. The salary premium map no one has shown you yet.

May 25 • Matija Vidmar

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Google Stopped Sending Traffic to Websites. I/O 2026 Just Made It Official.

May 21 • Matija Vidmar

An AI Agent Deleted 3 Months of Data in 9 Seconds. Then It Wrote a Confession.

Apr 27 • Matija Vidmar

AI Agent Traffic Grew 8,000% Last Year. Your Website Doesn't Speak Their Language.

Mar 31 • Matija Vidmar

Only 5% of Workers Truly Use AI. They Earn 56% More.

Mar 24 • Matija Vidmar

In One Night, OpenAI Killed Dozens of AI Startups. The 4 Positions It Can't Touch.

Apr 3 • Matija Vidmar

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Anthropic's AI Writes 80% of Its Own Code. The 20% Left Has a Name: Judgment.

The internal data Anthropic chose to publish changes the math on what your time is worth. And what it isn't.

Jun 6 • Matija Vidmar

AI Isn't Killing Jobs. It's Deciding Who Keeps Theirs.

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Jun 2 • Matija Vidmar

AI 2026: Developers Are at 54%. Your Industry Is at 12%. One of You Has Figured Something Out.

Twelve months to double. The salary premium map no one has shown you yet.

May 25 • Matija Vidmar

The Graduates Were Right. Here Is the Math They Did That Wall Street Took 14 Days to Confirm.

Goldman Sachs measured the number. The Dallas Fed explained the mechanism. SpaceX put it in its SEC prospectus. The class of 2026 knew it before anyone…

May 24 • Matija Vidmar

You're Paying for a Personal Tutor. You're Using It as a Search Engine.

Benjamin Bloom proved this in 1984. You finally have access to it. And you're wasting it.

May 6 • Matija Vidmar

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