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One of the most useful interviews of my career was an absolute disaster. I was in college and interviewing for an internship with Société Générale, a major French bank in New York City. This felt like the big leagues. I had already completed a three-month internship on Wall Street where I spent a good amount of my time organizing an IT closet. Somehow, this experience also convinced me that I knew Manhattan pretty well. I did not. The interview instructions said to go to the

The AI apocalypse is here. The jobs are gone, work is optional, goods are abundant, and we're all on some form of Universal Basic Income (UBI) to supplement our life of doom-scrolling leisure. My Tesla Optimus robot is fixing me another Old Fashioned at 2:00pm on a Tuesday and I just purchased the massage skill subscription to elevate my doom-scroll session to peak nirvana. Life is good! Don't be a techno-nihilist; be a techno-optimist Avoid becoming a techno-nihilist where y

Meta launched Muse this week, its new personal AI agent and a big piece of Zuckerberg's push toward "personal superintelligence." I wanted to see what it could actually do, so I gave it a real task on my business website. I Gave It the Keys From my couch, I told Muse to sign into Wix, open the editor, make changes to the homepage, remove a section and publish them. When one of the changes went wrong, I had it go into the site history, find an earlier version, restore it and r

I knew almost nothing about genealogy when I started this. A few weeks later, I was sitting in New Jersey looking at an Italian birth record from 1855 on my phone and realizing it had just given me the name of another generation of my family. That is what surprised me most about this project. AI has made it possible to do family research that I would have had no idea how to do a few years ago. My family had a head start. In 1998, one of my cousins built a Cirillo family tree

A few months ago I decided to see if I could build an actual iPhone app using AI. Why I built it The idea came from a pretty specific problem. My friends and family are hobbyist winemakers. Every year we get together and make our own wine, usually by the barrel. One barrel can eventually turn into upwards of 240 bottles that get divided among everyone involved. It’s a fun hobby, but there’s a surprising amount of logistics behind it. You have to decide what you’re making and