Mike Peck, Ed. D.🛡️

So excited to begin exploring the new frontier of web3 and its pending impacts on education, the future of work, and technology. Join me via wordpress or mirror.xyz. edtechmpeck.wordpress.com/2021/12/31/exp…

My first piece just published with District Administration Most AI conversations in schools assume everyone is solving the same problem. Principals and superintendents need fundamentally different frames for AI. One is operational. One is systemic. Until you name the gap, implementation stalls. Check out the full article here: districtadministration.com/opinion/ai-in-…

A lot of nuance in the future of work that is being missed in the proclamations from the hyperscalers

@businessbarista AI Native

I want to start an AI community for executives. This will be a space for people to share killer use cases, agentic workflows/agents, post-AI org structure, AI governance, AI training/enablement, change management, and more. Comment “AI-native” if you want to join.

Situational awareness

@sarahdingwang @clairevo I've been following @jessegenet for a while (@clairevo more recently) and appreciate how they're thinking about AI as a tool to solve problems. Was a super interesting conversation and brough a very different perspective to the value of AI to the table.

This is so cool. Thank you @clairevo!

The more enterprises I talk to about AI agent transformation, the more it’s clear that there is going to be a new type of role in most enterprises going forward. The job is to be the agent deployer and manager in teams. Here’s the rough JD: This person will need to figure out what are the highest leverage set of workflows on a team are (either existing or new ones) where agents can actually drive significantly more value for the team and company. In general, it’s going to be in areas where if you threw compute (in the form of agents) at a task you could either execute it 100X faster or do it 100X more times than before. Examples would be processing orders of magnitude more leads to hand them off to reps with extra customer signal, automating a contracting review and intake process, streamlining a client onboarding process to reduce as many straps as possible, setting up knowledge bases than the whole company taps into, and so on. This person’s job is to figure out what the future state workflow needs to look like to drive this new form of automation, and how to connect up the various existing or new systems in such a way that this can be fulfilled. The gnarly part of the work is mapping structured and unstructured data flows, figuring out the ideal workflow, getting the agent the context it needs to do the work properly, figuring out where the human interfaces with the agent and at what steps, manages evals and reviews after any major model or data change, and runs and manages the agents on an ongoing basis tracking KPIs, and so on. The person must be good at mapping the process and understanding where the value could be unlocked and be relatively technical, and has full autonomy to connect up business systems and drive automation. This means they’re comfortable with skills, MCP, CLIs, and so on, and the company believes it’s safe for them to do so. But also great operationally and at business. It may be an existing person repositioned, or a totally net new person in the company. There will likely need to be one or more of these people on every team, so it’s not a centralized role per se. It may rile up into IT or an AI team, or live in the function and just have checkpoints with a central function. This would also be a fantastic job for next gen hires who are leaning into AI, and are technical, to be able to go into. And for anyone concerned about engineers in the future, this will be an obvious area for these skills as well.

“This is going to be a different YouTube video today. This time I’m really scared...really scared. Now, buy this CI tool that I don’t use and nobody else uses either.” x1,000,000

There are no words.

@agent_wrapper +1 on mini Max has been excellent, and super affordable. I appreciate that it doesn’t provide lazy responses either.

What's the best AI model to run Hermes on other than Opus 4.6?

>be AI twitter > post the biggest thing ever in AI > world is upending > insert dicaprio inception meme > you can save yourself by reading my newsletter

@karelvuong @samjvuong Sure! We starting purchasing them for him when he was about 6months. They would send a kit, I think, quarterly with increasingly complex toys (for lack of better word). We stopped when he hit 2 because we had so many toys and really ran out of space.

@EdTechPeck @samjvuong Thanks for sharing! Was there a particular age range kit you got for him? Subscription boxes are pretty cool in general! There are some from KiwiCo as well education.supply/products/kiwic…

Over the weekend, @karelvuong and I built Education Supply, a curated collection of thoughtfully-designed, educational products for kids. Everything on here is physical, on purpose. We believe some of the best learning happens when kids interact with physical objects in the real world. Our collection is deliberately small. Fewer, better things you actually want in your home. Every Sunday we'll drop new additions to the site. If you have product suggestions, or features to make this more useful, comment below!

Teachers are using AI to plan lessons faster. Students are using AI to finish assignments faster. Via @EdWeekEdTech 61% of teachers now use AI in their work. 52% of teens say AI on assignments should be encouraged. Let that tension sink in

I've gotten more done in 30 minutes with Hermes via @NousResearch than I did in 3 weeks with @openclaw. Borrowing from @Zeneca but it just works. Looking forward to building a Chief of Staff.

@vintrotweets @3rosika keep cooking ...Hermes x Honcho are on my to do list

give the best agent the best memory. @3rosika walks you through it!!

When I started teaching in 2008, the realization that the internet meant that a student could come in to class and know more than me on any given topic was jarring. BUT was critical to help me rethink the value of what and how I taught. AI has allowed millions of people to gain access to, in effect, a personal tutor. We are now at the stage of building interactive classrooms complete with adaptive content and agent-powered classmates, with AI. Each event comes with challenges and opportunities. We're at a critical moment where we need to again revist the question of what are we teaching and how are we doing it.

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You can almost feel the accceleration

Check out the latest article in my newsletter: I Built an AI Agent Lab. Here’s What It Taught Me. linkedin.com/pulse/i-built-… via @LinkedIn

Everybody I know using AI is working more hours not less.