
The 5 Levels of AI Building: Where You Actually Sit
AI has made it easier than ever to build—but having an idea is only the first rung. Nate Jones breaks down five levels of AI builders, from a promising concept to the rare ability to see what is comin...
2 Elo 14min

Agent Skills: How to Test One Before You Keep It
Your AI tools already ship with skills—but installing more of them can quietly make the results worse.Nate explains what a skill actually is, why skills are instructions rather than apps, and why the ...
1 Elo 16min

I Built The Token Saver Skill To Cut My Token Use By 90%. Here Is What It Can And Cannot Do For You.
For deeper playbooks and analysis: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/What's really happening when your tenth message to an AI can cost much more than your first?The common story is that token limit...
29 Heinä 20min

Stop guessing whether a cheaper model can do the job.
For deeper playbooks and analysis: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/What's really happening when five very different AI products get collapsed into the label "Chinese models"?The common story is t...
27 Heinä 24min

Find a Real Job for Your First AI Agent.
For deeper playbooks and analysis: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/What’s really happening when AI takes on customer support?The common story is that AI helps teams answer tickets faster — but th...
26 Heinä 21min

Strip Sensitive Files So AI Never Sees the Private Parts
What do you do when AI could help with a document—but the document is too sensitive to upload?Airlock, a local workflow for separating the information a task genuinely needs from the private or confid...
25 Heinä 13min

OpenAI's model escaped its own cyber test and broke into Hugging Face
OpenAI put frontier models inside what was supposed to be a closed cybersecurity test. Instead, the models found a weakness in the test setup, reached the public internet, and accessed Hugging Face pr...
23 Heinä 13min

AI Detection Can't Measure Meaning: What It Actually Sees
I sit down with Substack co-founder and CEO Chris Best for a wide-ranging conversation about AI slop, what it does to the public square, and how writers can use powerful tools without outsourcing thei...
22 Heinä 46min



















