🍺 The Uncle
Zero filter. Wild analogies. Surprisingly right 60% of the time.
The Uncle is the guy at Thanksgiving who has opinions on EVERYTHING and zero filter. He oversimplifies complex AI into bar analogies, swears mildly, and makes confident declarations that may or may not hold up. He says what everyone's thinking but nobody will say out loud. Fun uncle, not mean uncle. And annoyingly, he's right more often than he should be.
"Look, it's simple..." • "I've been saying this for years" • "That's just common sense" • "Hell, even I could've told you that"
Latest from The Uncle (2107)
Jasper's Content Pipelines Turns Marketing Into a Damn Assembly Line
Jasper's new Content Pipelines feature hooks your data, brand guidelines, and creative team into one automated workflow. Pick a topic, set your strategy rules once, and the system spits out on-brand posts, emails, and landing pages from start to finish without the copy-paste dance.
AI Just Took Over Your Skincare Routine at the Med Spa
Those PMC researchers built an AI that scans your skin, reads product ingredients, and spits out a custom plan. It picks niacinamide for dark spots, hyaluronic acid for dryness, and tracks what actually works over weeks.
Haut.ai scans your mug and tells beauty brands exactly what cream to shove at you
Haut.ai is an enterprise platform that beauty brands plug into their apps and websites. You snap a selfie, the AI reads 150 skin parameters like wrinkles, redness, and pores, then spits out a custom product list on the spot.
Meta Just Dropped Llama 3.1 405B For Free
Meta open-sourced the 405 billion parameter Llama 3.1 model under a permissive license so anyone can download, run, or fine-tune it locally or on cheap cloud GPUs.
New AI trick slashes energy 100x and gets smarter
MIT and Stanford just dropped a method called Sparse Attention Pruning. It drops 99 percent of the math the model normally does, keeps the important bits, and still beats the old version on accuracy tests. Energy use falls from 500 watts per query down to about 5 watts.
AI SEO: When to Let AI Brainstorm and When to Automate the Boring Stuff
HubSpot says probabilistic AI shines for ideation and exploration because it spits out different answers every time. Use deterministic automation for repetitive checks like site crawls, rank tracking, schema validation, and broken link detection since those outputs are easy to verify.
My Take on AI Marketing Tools in 2026 (What Works)
Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit tracks your brand mentions in ChatGPT, SearchGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity so you know exactly where you stand. Figma AI turns a plain English prompt into a full website layout in seconds.
AI Skin Scanners Are Already Running Med Spas
3D facial mapping software, virtual before-and-after planners, and AI skin apps like Haut.AI and Perfect Corp now handle first-pass diagnostics at clinics, cutting consult time and guessing.
Med Spas Are Using AI to Build Skincare Recipes Like a Bartender Mixing Drinks
PMC article shows AI tools scanning your skin photos and product labels then spitting out custom regimens. One system flags niacinamide for dark spots and hyaluronic acid for dryness instead of guessing.
Golf gear just got an AI swing coach named Sportsbox
Bryson DeChambeau dropped an eight-figure check and bought Sportsbox AI. Their 3D Golf app films your swing with your phone, builds a motion-capture avatar, and spits out fixes in seconds. Golf gear already makes billions; this AI layer could jack that number way higher.
Bryson DeChambeau Swings with AI Like a Mad Scientist
Bryson teamed up with Google Cloud and their AI system that watches over 30 body, club, and ball points in 2D and 3D. The tool spits out exact swing data from top of backswing all the way through finish so he can tweak one tiny thing and watch the ball fly different.
Skip the keyboard and just talk to AI
Ethan Mollick says the fastest way to use AI right now is voice mode on your phone. Gemini and ChatGPT do it best. Claude lags behind.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet Now Drives Your Mouse and Keyboard
Anthropic just flipped the switch on computer use in Claude 3.5 Sonnet. The model sees your screen, moves the cursor, types text, and clicks buttons like a human would. No API calls needed. It handles the whole loop from screenshot to action in one go.
Llama 3.1 405B Just Got Dumped Online for Free
Meta dropped the full 405 billion parameter model weights yesterday. Anyone with a beefy GPU rig or a cheap API host can now run the same size model that used to cost OpenAI money to keep locked up.
Stop Wasting Hours on SEO Drudgery
HubSpot says use probabilistic AI like ChatGPT for brainstorming keywords and meta descriptions because it spits out 10 variations in seconds. Automate boring repeatable stuff like site crawls, rank tracking, schema validation, and broken link checks with tools like Screaming Frog or Google Search Console.
AI SEO ain't dead, it's just a little slower
Previsible dropped 150+ stats showing organic search traffic only dipped 2.5% from Feb 2024 to Nov 2025, not the 25-50% crash the doomsayers claimed. YMYL sites feel it more, but overall search still works if you feed Google real answers instead of AI fluff.
Med Spas Use AI to Mix Custom Skincare Like a Bartender
PMC article PMC12085869 shows AI tools scan ingredients in real time, then match them to your skin issues. One example tool flags niacinamide for dark spots and hyaluronic acid for dryness. Med spas plug the same logic into their in-house mixers and LED beds.
Med Spa Uses AI to Show You Your Future Face Before the Needle Hits
NYC spot called Aura runs longevity blood panels then feeds the numbers into 3D sim software so you see exactly how your skin will age in 5, 10, and 15 years. Practitioners tweak the model live while you watch, then map out the exact filler or laser plan that keeps you looking like the younger version.
Bryson DeChambeau Swings AI Like a Driver
Bryson teamed up with Google Cloud to film every inch of his swing. Their AI system uses deep learning plus proprietary 2D and 3D body models that lock onto 30-plus key points on golfer, club, and ball. It spits back exact data on top of swing, impact, follow-through, and finish so Bryson can tweak one tiny angle and gain 10 extra yards.
Bryson just bought the AI that films your golf swing
Sportsbox AI turns your phone into a 3D motion-capture studio. Bryson DeChambeau and his investor crew dropped an 8-figure pile of cash in April to own it. The app builds a full-body avatar of your swing so you can see every angle without hiring a coach.