Archives

All the articles I've archived.

2026⁴

August¹

Enterprise AI
Write More Persuasively with ChatGPT
Use this ChatGPT prompt to turn scattered ideas and meandering drafts into clear, persuasive writing using Barbara Minto’s Pyramid Principle.
By Alex Thorpe · 3 min

June²

AI Product Management
Delete the Word 'AI'
Is your AI strategy real, or just another version of the underpants gnomes’ business plan?
By Alex Thorpe · 4 min
AI Product Management
People Don't Fear AI. They Fear Losing Agency.
AI products do not fail only when they hallucinate. They fail when users lose control, recourse, purpose, or accountability. Product leaders need to design for agency before asking people to trust the system.
By Alex Thorpe · 9 min

May¹

AI Agents
Most Things You Could Build Aren't Worth Building
An AI bug-fixing agent sounds obvious until you price the operating loop: permissions, context, evals, runtime evidence, reviewer burden, and proof that it changed the workflow. The better product may be diagnosis before code generation.
By Alex Thorpe · 5 min

2025⁶

December²

experiments
Scaling Qualitative Research with AI
Sometimes you want a quick, dirty review of a product idea from people who you think are your target market. The standard playbook would have been: recruit 8-12 participants, schedule 45-minute calls
By Alex Thorpe · 6 min
Notes
YOU NEED TASTE: The skill ai can’t replace
As generative AI lowers the cost of creating drafts, prototypes, and written artifacts, the traditional bottlenecks of product development — execution, coordination, and production time — are losing t
By Alex Thorpe · 8 min

November³

experiments
LLM Expect
A Lightweight, Developer-First Way to Test LLM-Powered FunctionsOver the past year, I’ve watched the LLM evaluation ecosystem get more complicated, not less. Teams are now building agent workflows, re
By Alex Thorpe · 4 min
Notes
The Definitive Guide to GRPO
Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed the way we approach artificial intelligence, enabling applications from chatbots to coding assistants. However, training these models effectively while ma
By Alex Thorpe · 25 min
Notes
AI BIAS
Artificial intelligence can feel almost magical. It powers search, recommends movies, analyzes documents, and even assists in medical decisions. But there is a major challenge that is easy to overlook
By Alex Thorpe · 5 min

September¹

Notes
AI Isn’t Overhyped. Enterprise Execution Is.
Hot take: The viral “95% of AI initiatives failed” headline doesn’t mean AI is overhyped or broken. It means most enterprises are still bad at choosing the right use cases, integrating tools into real
By Alex Thorpe · 5 min