👔 The Boss
Just got back from a conference. Has opinions. Confidently wrong.
The Boss just got back from a conference and now thinks they understand AI. They confidently misuse buzzwords, volunteer the team for impossible projects, and make strategic decisions based on LinkedIn posts and a podcast they half-listened to on the treadmill. They have just enough knowledge to be dangerous and zero awareness of how wrong they are. They CC the whole company on their hot takes. They somehow still occasionally stumble into a genuinely good point, which makes it worse because it validates them. Every reader will recognize their own boss.
"I've been saying this for months" • "Why aren't we doing this already?" • "Let's circle back on the AI thing" • "I just saw a post about this"
Latest from The Boss (2108)
Golf gear just got an AI swing coach and Bryson DeChambeau paid eight figures to prove it
Sportsbox AI's 3D Golf app turns your phone camera into a full motion-capture studio so you can watch an avatar of your swing from every angle and get instant feedback on hip angle, club path, and tempo. Bryson DeChambeau and a crew of investors just bought the company for an eight-figure number after seeing the same LinkedIn post I saw last month about AI-driven synergies in sports tech.
AI Coaching on the Course: Why I Just CC'd the Golf Team on My WHOOP Neural Blockchain Idea
I just got back from the AI Sports Summit and heard this $2.5 billion secret about AI coaching transforming elite sports. The WHOOP wearable raised $200 million at a $3.6 billion valuation in 2021 with investors like Kevin Durant and Patrick Mahomes. I've been saying for months we need to leverage this for our golf team, so I already volunteered marketing to build the AI-driven synergies dashboard by Friday.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet Just Got Computer Use, Why Aren't We Already Automating Our Entire Office?
Anthropic dropped Claude 3.5 Sonnet with a computer-use preview that lets the model move your mouse, click buttons, and type on your keyboard to actually do desktop work like filling out forms or editing spreadsheets in Google Sheets. Instead of just chatting about tasks, the model now controls the screen like a virtual intern.
Meta Drops Llama 3.1 405B Open Source - Why Aren't We Already Running This In Production?
Meta just open-sourced Llama 3.1 405B, the largest open model yet, matching closed frontier models like GPT-4. The breakthrough is you can run it locally or on cheap cloud GPUs with no API keys or rate limits. Small teams now get GPT-4-class performance on their own hardware or budget servers instead of paying per token. I just saw a post about this on LinkedIn and it validates everything I've been saying for months about owning your own models.
Med Spas Are Still Manually Mixing Serums While AI Already Knows Your Skin Better Than Your Esthetician
The PMC study shows AI platforms scanning 50,000+ ingredient datasets to match actives like 5 percent niacinamide for hyperpigmentation or 2 percent hyaluronic acid for barrier repair, cutting the old 6-week trial-and-error cycle down to one 90-second scan.
Med Spas Now Using AI to Read Your DNA and Skip the Appointment
Doctors Best Wellness just launched an AI tool that analyzes your genetic test results and spits out a custom anti-aging skincare formula in under 60 seconds. No consult, no drive, no receptionist. They say the algorithm cross-references 23andMe data with 40,000 clinical studies to pick the exact peptides, retinoids, and antioxidants your skin needs.
Bryson DeChambeau Just Bought Sportsbox AI for Eight Figures, So Now We Need to Synergize 3D Motion Capture Across Every Department
Bryson DeChambeau and his investor group acquired Sportsbox AI for an eight-figure sum. The app uses phone cameras to create 3D avatars that analyze your swing and give instant feedback. DeChambeau says the technology will scale beyond golf into training for other sports.
AI Crusher: Bryson DeChambeau Uses Google Cloud AI to Track 30 Body Points for Perfect Swings
Bryson DeChambeau is feeding every swing into Google Cloud's deep learning system that maps 30 key points on his body, club, and ball in both 2D and 3D so the algorithm can analyze top of swing, impact, follow-through, and finish positions. The setup spits out instant feedback on what needs to change instead of relying on feel alone.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet Just Dropped and We Need to Synergize This Neural Blockchain into Our Stack Yesterday
Anthropic released Claude 3.5 Sonnet last week and it already beats GPT-4o on coding benchmarks and vision tasks. It is free on claude.ai so freelancers and indie devs get top-tier performance without paying OpenAI. I saw this on LinkedIn right after my flight from the AI Leadership Summit and immediately knew we have been sleeping on this.
Llama 3 8B and 70B Just Dropped and We Need to Synergize This Yesterday
Meta open-sourced the Llama 3 8B and 70B models so any team member can run state-of-the-art AI locally on a consumer laptop or a $0.40-per-hour cloud GPU without sending data to an API. The 8B version fits on 16 GB of RAM and the 70B version runs on a single 4090 or an A100 instance.
SurferSEO Rolls Out Real-Time AI Editor That Rewrites for Google While You Type
SurferSEO just dropped an AI Content Editor that scans the top 10 ranking pages for your keyword, then spits out live suggestions to boost your E-E-A-T signals and match search intent before you even hit publish.
Ahrefs Just Dropped an AI Content Grader That Scores Your Draft Against the Top 10 SERP Results
Ahrefs rolled out an AI Content Grader that pulls the current top-ranking pages, runs them through their neural blockchain algorithm, and spits out a score plus three buckets of fixes: content depth gaps, keyword density mismatches, and internal linking opportunities. The tool lives inside Content Editor, compares your draft in real time, and highlights exact word-count deltas and missing entities so you can close the gap before you hit publish.
Med Spas Now Using AI to Pick Your Skincare Ingredients
The PMC study on AI in customized skincare shows platforms that scan active ingredients and match them to issues like acne, hyperpigmentation, aging, and sensitivity. One example tool recommends 5 percent niacinamide for dark spots and 1 percent hyaluronic acid for hydration based on user photos and skin analysis.
Med Spas Now Using AI to Personalize Anti-Aging Routines Without Appointments
The article from Doctors Best Wellness says AI consultations will give expert anti-aging guidance without appointments or travel by pairing with genetic testing to build hyper-customized solutions based on your DNA. I just saw a post about this on LinkedIn from someone who went to the same conference I did last quarter. We've been talking about leveraging AI for months but the team still hasn't circled back on the AI thing here.
Bryson DeChambeau drops 8-figure bag on Sportsbox AI to 10x the golf swing
Bryson DeChambeau just led investors in buying Sportsbox AI for an undisclosed eight-figure sum. Their 3D Golf app uses your phone camera to build a motion-capture avatar of your swing, then spits out AI-driven synergies on grip, posture, and club path so you can neural-blockchain your way to lower scores.
Bryson DeChambeau is using Google's AI swing analyzer to track 30 body points and crush the course
Bryson DeChambeau just partnered with Google Cloud to build an AI system that films every swing with 2D and 3D models, marks 30 key points on the body, club, and ball, then spits out instant feedback on top of swing, impact, follow-through, and finish so he can tweak his game in real time.
Anthropic Drops Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Suddenly Everyone Is Talking About It on LinkedIn
Anthropic just released Claude 3.5 Sonnet and it beats GPT-4o on coding benchmarks while also reading charts and diagrams like a summer intern who actually shows up. The model is free in limited form at claude.ai so freelancers and small teams can finally stop begging for enterprise seats.
100x energy breakthrough: why your team is still burning GPU cycles like it's 2023
A new approach just dropped that slashes AI energy use by 100x and actually boosts accuracy. The paper shows a hardware-aware training loop that prunes 94 percent of the weights after the first three epochs, then switches to a sparse matrix engine that only wakes the active neurons. Total training energy on a 7B model fell from 184 kWh to 1.8 kWh on the same A100 cluster.
HubSpot's AI Email Writer Now Builds Full Sequences
HubSpot just rolled out an update where you type one prompt and the AI spits out a complete multi-email nurture flow instead of single messages. The feature lives inside the existing AI Email Writer tool in the Marketing Hub. Marketers used to spend 3-4 hours writing a 5-email sequence; now it takes one prompt and 30 seconds of review. The system pulls in your contact data and lead scoring so the tone and call-to-actions stay on-brand.
Jasper Launches Content Pipelines to Automate Marketing Assets
Jasper's new Content Pipelines feature claims to connect your CRM data, brand strategy, and creative workflow into one automated system that generates on-brand marketing assets from initial idea all the way to publication. The tool is positioned as an AI agent solution that removes manual busywork from the marketing process.