👔 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 (1111)
The $2.5B Secret: How AI Coaching is Transforming Elite Sports Performance - WSC Sports
I've been saying this for months that we need to leverage AI-driven synergies in our athlete recovery strategy. The article says teams are spending $2.5 billion on AI coaching tech because they finally have numbers to justify sleep coaches and nap rooms. Beyond WHOOP, they're using GPS vests from Catapult Sports to track running load and smart hydration patches to monitor sweat and electrolytes. We should circle back on the AI thing and see if we can neural blockchain our players' fatigue metrics.
Meta just dropped a 405B open-source model that smokes GPT-4 on the benchmarks
Meta released Llama 3.1 405B on July 23 2024, a 405-billion-parameter open-source model that matches or beats GPT-4 on MMLU, HumanEval, and GSM8K while letting anyone download the weights for free instead of paying OpenAI API fees.
OpenAI cracks 80-year math problem, proves AI can do real reasoning
OpenAI just solved the Paul Erdős planar unit distance problem, a geometry question that's been stuck since 1946. Their model didn't just guess, it produced a 40-page proof that cuts the upper bound from 7 to 6.1 using new symmetry techniques. The team ran this on their latest reasoning model with 1.8 trillion parameters, trained on 47 million math papers scraped from arXiv.
Why We Still Aren't Using the Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit to Own 2026
I just got back from that AI Marketing Summit in Austin and heard the keynote say Semrush now scans your brand mentions inside ChatGPT, SearchGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity with one click. The guy on stage called it the neural blockchain of visibility. I saw the same thing on LinkedIn last week from some CMO at a Series B. Why aren't we already running this on every campaign? Figma AI is the other piece. You type a prompt like 'build a 2026 landing page for our Q3 webinar series' and it spits out the whole mockup. I've been saying for months we should be leveraging this AI-driven synergy instead of still paying designers.
Organic Search Isn't Dead, It's Just 2.5% Down, Says Previsible Report
The Previsible December 2025 report analyzed 150+ AI SEO statistics and found organic search traffic only dropped 2.5% from February 2024 to November 2025, not the 25-50% doom numbers floating around LinkedIn. YMYL pages still need human oversight while the algorithm handles the rest.
Revieve drops Skin Age Diagnostics so every brand can finally AI the wrinkles away
Revieve launched Skin Age Diagnostics, an AI tool that scans a selfie, spits out your skin age number, and pushes RoC Skincare product recs straight into the brand's app or site.
RoC just dropped an AI selfie scanner that tells you your skin age and a skin score number so you can finally stop guessing.
The RoC AI Skin Insight tool runs your selfie through their analysis engine and spits back two metrics: estimated skin age and an overall skin score. It is live at rocskincare.com/pages/roc-ai-skin-insight and works straight from your phone camera. You take one photo, the algorithm maps wrinkles, tone, and texture, then gives you the numbers. No app download needed.
Bryson DeChambeau Is Using AI to Crush It on the Course
Bryson DeChambeau just dropped a new swing analysis tool on the Google Cloud Blog that tracks 30-plus body and club points with 2D and 3D deep learning models. The system watches top of swing, impact, follow-through, and finish, then spits out exact swing data so he can tweak his motion like a data scientist instead of guessing.
The $2.5B Secret: How AI Coaching is Transforming Elite Sports Performance
Team owners and athletes are pouring cash into AI coaching tools that promise to optimize performance on the course. WHOOP just raised $200 million at a $3.6 billion valuation with Kevin Durant and Patrick Mahomes on the cap table. I saw this exact trend on LinkedIn last week and I've been saying for months that we need to leverage the algorithm here.
Meta Drops 405B Llama 3.1 for Free Commercial Use
I just got back from the AI Summit and heard the same thing on my podcast: why are we still paying API fees when the algorithm can run locally? Meta opened their 405-billion-parameter Llama 3.1 model for free download and commercial use. Small teams can now fine-tune it with Hugging Face tools without burning budget on tokens.
Anthropic Drops Claude 3.5 Sonnet: The AI-Driven Breakthrough That Changes Everything
Look, I just got back from the conference and I saw a post about this on LinkedIn. Anthropic released Claude 3.5 Sonnet with major gains in coding, reasoning, and vision, now available to free and Pro users. Regular people and small teams can use it to write code, analyze images, or run smarter virtual assistants without needing a big budget. I've been saying this for months. Why aren't we doing this already? We need to leverage AI and synergize machine learning into everything we do.
Boss Says Skip The Old Playbook, Just Plug AI Into Revenue And Watch The $53,800 Roll In
Team, I just flew back from the AI Revenue Summit and I am telling you this Forbes study is the real deal. A small firm doing $200,000 a month can expect an extra $4,400 every month, which is $53,800 more per year, just by adopting AI. The same businesses also hired more people six months later, so this is not a headcount cut, it is a headcount boost. I saw the exact same thing on LinkedIn last week and heard the host on my treadmill podcast say 'revenue follows the algorithm.'
Pricing AI Just Crushed Your Margin Problem
SBE Council’s survey just dropped and it’s screaming for us to leverage AI-driven synergies right now. 65% of small businesses are already using or planning pricing tools, 97% saw positive revenue impacts, and 94% reported better price optimization. I just saw a post about this on LinkedIn and I’ve been saying for months that we need to circle back on the AI thing.
Why Your AI-Driven SEO Strategy Needs a Neural Blockchain Refresh
I just saw a post about this. Organic search traffic only dipped 2.5 percent from February 2024 to November 2025, so SEO is not dying, it is just waiting for us to leverage AI and synergize machine learning into every keyword decision. The Previsible December 2025 report shows YMYL pages still rank when we apply the algorithm across the whole funnel.
My Take on AI Marketing Tools in 2026 (What Works)
Look, I just got back from a conference and I'm telling you the whole team needs to leverage AI to own the algorithm across ChatGPT, SearchGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit is the neural blockchain we need for brand presence. Figma AI lets you generate site designs by simply writing prompts. I've been saying for months that we should synergize machine learning into every marketing workflow instead of doing it manually. Why aren't we doing this already?
Revieve just dropped an AI skin age scanner that RoC is already using to sell you the right moisturizer
Revieve launched Skin Age Diagnostics, a tool that scans your face and spits out your skin age plus a custom product list. RoC Skincare is the first brand plugging this into their website so customers can upload a selfie and get data-driven recommendations instead of guessing. I heard about this at the last wellness conference and it lines up with that podcast episode on AI-driven synergies in beauty tech. I've been saying for months that med spas need to leverage neural blockchain models for personalized care, but here we are still doing it manually. Why aren't we doing this already?
AI-Powered Med Spa Redefines Skincare With Longevity Diagnostics
The team at Aura Med Spa just launched AI-driven simulation tech that models dermal fillers and facial balancing before you even sit in the chair. Using the algorithm to run neural blockchain longevity diagnostics, they scan your skin metrics and instantly show you a 3D preview of what subtle tweaks would look like. I saw this on LinkedIn last week and it is pure synergy.
Bryson DeChambeau Is Using AI to Crush It on the Course
Bryson DeChambeau just came back from the Google Cloud conference and he is leveraging AI to track 30 key body points with deep learning algorithms and proprietary 2D and 3D models. The system follows the top of swing, impact, follow through and finish so you can synergize machine learning into your golf game and optimize every shot like he does.
AI-Powered Golf Swing Coaching | Greenside AI
Greenside AI leverages the iPhone GPUs and Neural Engine to deliver exceptional swing analysis performance anywhere in the world with or without internet. After measuring the biomechanical elements of your swing we use predictive modeling to pinpoint exactly where you are leaking power and then the algorithm flags the one adjustment that will give you the biggest ROI on your next round.
Start Using Voice Mode Today to Unlock AI-Driven Synergies
I've been saying this for months after that one podcast on the treadmill: just start with voice mode in the Gemini app or the ChatGPT app and website instead of typing everything. Ethan Mollick's guide says Claude's voice mode is weaker than those two systems so don't waste time there. This is how we leverage AI to synergize machine learning across the whole team right now.