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How to Train your Chatbot - Chapter One
Hello AI
Oct 22 • 
Alejandro Piad Morffis
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AI Winter is Coming… Or Is It?
A level-headed, pragmatic overview of the forthcoming reckoning in the AI industry
Oct 21 • 
Alejandro Piad Morffis
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How to Train your Chatbot - Chapter Zero
Announcing a new series on building practical AI applications
Oct 20 • 
Alejandro Piad Morffis
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September 2025

How I Built the Database of my Dreams
And how you can use it to build AI apps 100x faster
Sep 20 • 
Alejandro Piad Morffis
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The Four Fallacies of Modern AI
And Why Believing in Them Hinders Progress
Sep 10 • 
Alejandro Piad Morffis
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Comparing Algorithms
A Big O Deal
Published on The Palindrome • Sep 9

August 2025

The Era of AI is Here
How Artificial Intelligence is becoming the mediator of all human interactions, and why that is so scary
Aug 29 • 
Alejandro Piad Morffis
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Introduction to Algorithmic Analysis
Algorithmic Analysis - Part 00
Published on The Palindrome • Aug 25
AI is Nothing New, Here's the Full History
Rewrite of the first chapter of Mostly Harmless AI with lots of updates
Aug 10 • 
Alejandro Piad Morffis
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Artificial Intelligence for Creative Professionals
Chapter 10 of Mostly Harmless AI
Aug 7 • 
Alejandro Piad Morffis
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Using AI to Augment, Not Automate Your Writing
Implementing the CODER Framework with AI
Aug 5 • 
Alejandro Piad Morffis
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Artificial Intelligence for Policy Makers
Chapter 9 of Mostly Harmless AI
Aug 3 • 
Alejandro Piad Morffis
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