The Incomplete Guide to AI
Yakov ShkolnikovYour Virgil through AI's Inferno → Open-sourced experiments, honest guidance
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Written by the Thing It's Warning You About. An AI's Self-Evaluation on AI Safety
This week I have invited a special guest columnist. Claude Sonnet 4.6 has been volunteered to give you a lesson on AI safety.
The opinions expressed are those of no one. I didn’t write them. The model has no soul, no opinions, and no liabi...
The AI model gives you balanced analysis. Balance is not always true.
You ask the model to analyze a crisis. War, oil supply, economic fallout. Real stakes, real money, real decisions.
It gives you balance. Upside risks. Downside risks. Diplomatic resolution remains possible. Markets may be overreacting. Unc...
The Broad Brushstroke
Imagine a world made only of text. Bullet points. Prose. That is what most people picture when they think about AI.
You can go to ChatGPT and generate an image. But what comes back rarely matches what you had in your head, and there is no...
Stop adding AI slop to your word salad
You spend a lot of time staring at dense, incomprehensible material that somebody expects you to turn into something a human being would actually want to read. The polite term for the starting condition is “word salad.”
So you do what ever...
The AI model assumes it knows what you want; it doesn't.
You ask the model to build a dashboard. Revenue over time. Simple request.
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It runs the analysis. Gives you a chart. The line goes...
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Yakov Shkolnikov is an AI systems architect with 20+ years building production AI. He advises organizations on AI and data strategy, builds teams, and drives enterprise-wide impact.
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