AI for Good

The future is being
written in prompts.

Thoughts on the brave new world of artificial intelligence — the silicon minds, the steel bodies, and the human hearts that must guide them both.

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Sajad Saleem

the mediocre generalist

Three Pillars

Latest

Heart & Society|11 min read

LLMs to Langley

When the companies building intelligence started selling it to the people who surveil yours

More Thoughts

Heart & Society|13 min read

Who Decides What AI Should Do?

The most important question in technology isn't technical

Silicon & Photonics|12 min read

Ode to Opus

A love letter to the machine that taught the mediocre generalist to fly

Heart & Society|13 min read

The EU AI Act Is Coming. Here's What It Actually Means.

Five months until the biggest AI regulation in history takes effect — and most businesses aren't ready

Heart & Society|14 min read

Why Promptology

On naming things, asking questions, and the art of the prompt

Silicon & Photonics|15 min read

Choosing Your AI: Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini — An Honest Comparison

Not a feature matrix. A thinker's guide to which model actually fits your work.

Steel & Sinew|14 min read

The Year the Robots Stood Up

2025-2026 and the rise of embodied intelligence

Silicon & Photonics|14 min read

Agentic AI: When Your Tools Start Using Tools

The shift from chatbots to autonomous agents is the biggest change in how we work since the internet

Heart & Society|11 min read

Start With the Process Everyone Hates

The best AI implementation in your business isn't the exciting one — it's the one nobody wants to do manually anymore

Silicon & Photonics|12 min read

Why I Build Everything With Claude Code

I'm not a developer. I built this entire site anyway. Here's what that taught me about the future of building things.

Heart & Society|14 min read

The Honest Guide to AI Readiness

Most businesses are buying AI tools before they've asked the only question that matters

Silicon & Photonics|14 min read

Coding with Ghosts

What happens when your IDE thinks faster than you do

Silicon & Photonics|13 min read

The Art of the Prompt

Prompt engineering isn't about syntax. It's about thinking clearly enough that the machine can follow.

Heart & Society|15 min read

The Generalist's Revenge

Why knowing a bit of everything became the most valuable skill in the age of AI

Heart & Society|16 min read

Teaching My Children About Tomorrow

Dinner table conversations about AI, fear, hope, and what to learn when knowledge is free

Silicon & Photonics|10 min read

The Benchmark Illusion

Why the best model isn't always the one that scores highest

Steel & Sinew|11 min read

When Steel Learns to Dream

On robots, imagination, and the strange new physics of embodied intelligence

Heart & Society|15 min read

The Last Luddite

A defence of scepticism in the age of synthetic intelligence