Published 2 June 2025
e516 with Michael and Michael – AI prompts, browsers, model collapse & automation along with a teeny tiny pico Mac nano, and a whole lot more.
While Andy is away, Michael and Michael start off with an article from Ars Technica that explains the system prompts for Anthropic’s Claude 4 models. This leads into a discussion on prompt engineering, and how solutions like Ollama allow users to download LLMs and create their own prompts. After a quick sidebar on AI browsers like Opera, the team takes a look at Sky, an AI automation app. This app shows a great deal of promise as a desktop AI assistant, and will be very interesting to try out once it is generally available. Then, the team turns to a story on AI model collapse. And next up is a blog post about consenting to updated terms and conditions.
Round things off for this episode, Michael and Michael enjoy a teeny tiny Mac classic – the Pico Mac Nano – a new take on 3D monitors and a local North Carolina story about Pokemon card game competitions.
What would you want to run on a Pico Mac Nano? Sky’s the limit! Have your bots 🤖 drop our bots 🤖 a line at @gamesatwork_biz (our home for now) and let us know!
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Selected Links
AI
Ars Technica article: Hidden AI instructions reveal how Anthropic controls Claude 4
Wikipedia article: Prompt Engineering
Games at Work e429: Promptly Engineering
The Verge article: Opera’s new AI browser promises to write code while you sleep
MacStories article: From the Creators of Shortcuts, Sky Extends AI Integration and Automation to Your Entire Mac
Phrase of the moment: "model collapse" https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/opinion_column_ai_model_collapse/
The Register article: Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves
"Technology should only ever do exactly what we have explicitly given it our consent to do"
This blog post 👉🏻 https://www.anildash.com//2025/05/27/2025-05-27-internet-of-consent/ by @anildash is just superb! 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
And the last sentence, a massively poignant call-to-action that won't leave people indifferent, specially, those who can't understand #ConsentMatters
Anil Dash blog post: The Internet of Consent
Hardware
TechRadar article: Someone just built the world’s smallest working Mac – and at this price, I desperately want one
Wired Article: 3D Is Back. This Time, You Can Ditch the Glasses
Pokemon
The Assembly article: More Than a Card Game
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Great show guys! Sorry I missed the recording.