Ethan Mollick
Professor at Wharton studying how people actually use AI, and author of Co-Intelligence. Writes One Useful Thing, where the claims are dated and testable because the thing they describe keeps changing under them.
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31 Aug 2026
Our framing
Their wordsHuman agency, the willingness to push, experiment and act without waiting for instructions, seems increasingly important to getting value out of AI
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31 Aug 2026
Our framing
Their wordsAIs don’t just repeat the same sentence patterns but also the same themes (memory is a favorite), names (Elara Voss, Marcus Chen), and underlying ideas.
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31 Aug 2026
Our framing
Their wordsWe found that AIs are actually quite creative and that they generate more commercially viable ideas than groups of humans, but those ideas are very similar to each other.
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23 Jul 2026
Our framing
Their wordsGoogle, which led on benchmarks not that long ago, has fallen behind where it now counts: it has no leading frontier model and it has nothing close to Codex and Code.
↗An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuffoneusefulthing.org
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23 Jul 2026
Our framing
Their wordsThe more expensive plans are mostly buying you more hours of AI labor, not smarter AI.
↗An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuffoneusefulthing.org
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23 Jul 2026
Our framing
Their wordsCopilot, which uses a mix of AI models and is okay for working with office documents but lags badly in terms of its agentic abilities.
↗An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuffoneusefulthing.org