Stable Discussion Podcast

I played around with the new Google Agentic IDE, Antigravity , on launch day and created a few features for an app I’ve been playing with. If you’re unfamiliar this video is a helpful overview of the features: My initial impressions offer a more nuanced experience than the chipper attitude of this presentation which should help you get a balanced perspective. This Substack is reader-supported. To...

In my latest video, I share a high-level summary of building a full feature with Claude Code and AI-assisted coding — from rapid prototyping to a frustrating production bug that ate up 20% of my time. If you haven’t seen it yet, you can catch the overview here: Videos are great for telling the story at a glance focusing on the high-level summary — but they don’t always have the space to unpack the...

I wanted to collect a few thoughts on the recent OpenAI Dev Day 2025 announcements from my initial investigation into the tech behind the announcement. Based on a couple years of building AI integrations into applications these are my gut reactions to the presentation. If you’re unfamiliar with their presentation, it might be valuable to skim through it first. Now let’s get into it. Our Take Agent...

I was deep in a World of Warcraft inventory crisis the other day—bags full of random items with cryptic names. “ Tangy Clam Meat ” sat there taunting me. What do I even use this for? This simple gaming question sent me down two very different paths that perfectly illustrate how search has fundamentally changed. And if you’re running any kind of online business or content operation, this shift is a...

Over the last week, I’ve been captivated by the idea that Designers are best positioned to leverage AI on development teams. AI is changing how products are built, but there's a blind spot: designers are still standing on the sidelines, even as the tools finally let them take center stage. Most teams treat AI as the domain of engineers and data scientists, and for designers, this technical barrier...

The podcast returns to discuss the significant advancements in AI image generation and video creation technologies, focusing on MidJourney 6 for its photorealism and stylistic capabilities, DALLE 3's improvements alongside ChatGPT, and the emergence of Stable Diffusion 3. They highlight the rapid maturation of image generators, mentioning developments in real-time generation and the potential appl...

Della and Ben return to the podcast and get caught up with months of news bringing together their highlights just in time for the holidays. Stay tuned for an interesting run through the latest major changes that excite and inspire us about AI. Links DALL·E 3 SDXL Turbo Pika GPT-4 Turbo AWS Bedrock llamafile twominutepapers $1 GPT game Ada Customer Experience Thanks for listening to Stable Discussi...

OpenAI released a new feature where you can create "your own GPT" experience within ChatGPT. Builders of the new GPTs can adjust ChatGPT to act differently and read from custom documentation, all without needing any coding knowledge. Additionally, there's potential to make money off of these tools, which adds significantly to the marketability of these features. However, I struggle to see a revolu...

With the changes at OpenAI this week , I'm assuming your newsfeed is being flooded with speculation and drama. Maybe you've been missing Game of Thrones and that's exactly what you're hoping to see. However, if you'd rather find other sources of information about AI outside the tabloids, then I have a model for you. This continues our prior post from last week that covered the first part of this m...

It's easy to show someone something interesting in ChatGPT, create an inspiring image or talk about huge multi-million dollar movies being made about AI. While it can be overwhelming , all this content shows just how many directions AI can go in. Nobody knows where this is going or what's going to happen, but many smart people are paying attention. That said, there's also a lot of noise. You'll se...

As I board a plane on a trip to Korea, I can’t help but think how little AI helped to prepare me for this trip. I researched destinations on travel sites and with Google Maps. Purchasing was straightforward on booking sites where I was able to use my points. Based on previous trips, I created a list on my iPad of everything I needed to pack. Thinking back on it I can’t help thinking… as someone wi...

We're still in the early adopter phase of AI. While many companies have adopted AI to please shareholders, excite users, or encourage internal developers, there are still a lot of details to figure out. The well-known challenges are the difficulty of aligning AI tooling with human interests and keeping user data secure. But the bigger challenge for businesses is finding a consistent, reliable, and...

Welcome, and thanks for reading Stable Discussion! We appreciate the support we’ve received and are honoured that you’re tuning in roughly every week to see what we've been learning and discussing! As we quickly started sharing what we've been thinking, we may have missed introducing ourselves. This publication, Stable Discussion, shares expert and approachable insights about modern artificial int...

The world is currently in an AI craze over new products like ChatGPT releasing that excites us about the future of AI. These chatbots are incredibly human in their response to our questions. I've replaced asking Siri with GPT and Pi when I'm curious about a topic or an idea. That intelligence is definitely part of the "I" in AI, but it can be hard to pinpoint what AI really is. Simply, artificial...

Today’s post is a guest post by friend of the show, Michael Fraser . Michael is an AI Evangelist and Innovation Strategist at Action Insight. He posts regularly on The Local Model where you can find more of his insights and work using Generative Models to change how companies think about art, workflows, and their future. Being a leader means making decisions. Lots of them. And each decision is fue...

AI is at its best when it removes boring tasks and lets us lean into the work we enjoy. Imagine being an athlete that only has to compete in competitions. They never have to practice or train. They get to focus on the work they train so hard for and make adjustments to the training done on their behalf. It promotes them to a coach that still gets to perform. AI elevates our role in the work we wan...

You're late to class, didn't study, and must sit through a lecture on advanced mathematics (or a compliance training in an office, whichever you find most boring). You forgot your notebook and end up without any lecture notes. Now, an hour later, you're doing homework and try to remember what you learned. You remember things at the beginning of the lecture. Topics connect to your previous learning...

Follow us on Substack! https://blog.stablediscussion.com/ Stable Discussion now available on https://stablediscussion.com We've posted new UI/UX examples and patterns for integrating AI into a wide variety of products. Show Notes Live Demo of Code Interpreter added to OpenAI (Our Dataset) Great Examples: https://twitter.com/emollick AI Innovators & Devs Meetup in Toronto https://www.meetup.com/tor...

In our discussions with many different people, how to get started has come up quite a bit. Many of these people aren’t working in technology and haven’t programmed before. When they try to use AI it doesn’t work for them and the results aren’t all that helpful. This gave us the idea of putting together a short guide for anyone who identifies with these problems and would like some helpful pointers...

Prompt engineering doesn’t provide a repeatable way to use AI models. You’ve likely seen courses sold with thousands of prompts and industry professionals discussing amazing prompt engineering techniques. Technologists excited about ChatGPT have spent a lot of time creating engineered prompts. With so much excitement, how is it possible that prompt engineering isn’t providing a repeatable practice...

Topics discussed in this episode include: Latest AI News * Sam Altman visits Toronto on his world tour: https://open.substack.com/pub/stablediscussion/p/discussions-about-chatgpt-with-sam * Google I/O Announcements * PALM2: https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-palm-2-ai-large-language-model/ * Anthropic 100K context window: https://www.anthropic.com/index/100k-context-windows * Geoffry Hinton...

Stable Discussion was able to attend a special event in Toronto with OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman. Sam is on his world listening tour to gain insight into how users are engaging with the AI models his company has developed. Toronto was the first stop on the tour. In a fireside chat, I was able to ask a single question to Sam: Ben: “Are you having challenges re-engaging customers who have tried and fai...

Note tooling is something that I've been obsessing over for years. I've never thought of myself as a particularly good note taker but, as I started working more, I realized that I needed to offload information from my brain. It's hard to keep track of all the things you have on the go, your passion projects, and even things you might be trying to learn about outside of life. It's easy to feel over...

In this episode, we explore recent AI research and its implications, from AutoGPT to AI playing The Sims. Join us as we discuss these fascinating developments and better understand the limitations these systems have today. Topics discussed in this episode: * AutoGPT: Architecting Out Language Models * A proof of concept for the future of AI * GitHub link: https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Au...

I've edited this first paragraph about a hundred times before arriving at a place where I like it. I kept revisiting it as I wrote further down the page. I keep thinking: Are all these changes really going to make it better? Could an AI get that out of the way so I can write? An AI could have started this post off great. It certainly would have been way faster than me. I could regenerate the first...