Keith Vertrees
@vertrees.co
Strategic advisor to Mid-Size and Enterprise Product and Technology Leaders. I’ve been working on actually relevant AI use cases since "transformers" still referred to a bad movie franchise (it still does, but it used to, too). Amsterdam.
November 22, 2025 at 9:04 AM
I have not watched, played, viewed, or opened this video at all, on any device, yet Youtube shows some playback progress. Is this a dark pattern to make me think I had previously started watching it to get me to click it?
November 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I have not watched, played, viewed, or opened this video at all, on any device, yet Youtube shows some playback progress. Is this a dark pattern to make me think I had previously started watching it to get me to click it?
Reminds me of this hilarious figure from Special Boy Sev Gorka’s “PhD”.
November 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Reminds me of this hilarious figure from Special Boy Sev Gorka’s “PhD”.
How can I get away with claiming no issues while also reporting outages, too?
November 4, 2025 at 11:25 AM
How can I get away with claiming no issues while also reporting outages, too?
Do NOT upload to Crackerz without Yammer approval
November 4, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Do NOT upload to Crackerz without Yammer approval
I don’t interact with LLMs much through the public chat interfaces (ChatGPT, Claude, …Grok), but I use the APIs a lot in my own tools that I’ve built or in b2b products I use.
When I see what appears to be the typical user interacting with these it really does concern me. See attached.
When I see what appears to be the typical user interacting with these it really does concern me. See attached.
August 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I don’t interact with LLMs much through the public chat interfaces (ChatGPT, Claude, …Grok), but I use the APIs a lot in my own tools that I’ve built or in b2b products I use.
When I see what appears to be the typical user interacting with these it really does concern me. See attached.
When I see what appears to be the typical user interacting with these it really does concern me. See attached.
Go to r/ChatGPT and search for “my ai” and weep for our future.
August 12, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Go to r/ChatGPT and search for “my ai” and weep for our future.
His economic buffoonery is making the money nervous.
July 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
His economic buffoonery is making the money nervous.
This @figma.com error page is adorable.
July 17, 2025 at 6:54 AM
This @figma.com error page is adorable.
Anyone watch that hilariously depressing "interview" Piers Morgan did with real, actual physicist @seanmcarroll.bsky.social and sentient Markov text generator @ericweinstein.bsky.social?
It's worth watching to see what happens when Eric leaves the safe space of JRE. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m7L...
It's worth watching to see what happens when Eric leaves the safe space of JRE. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m7L...
May 30, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Anyone watch that hilariously depressing "interview" Piers Morgan did with real, actual physicist @seanmcarroll.bsky.social and sentient Markov text generator @ericweinstein.bsky.social?
It's worth watching to see what happens when Eric leaves the safe space of JRE. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m7L...
It's worth watching to see what happens when Eric leaves the safe space of JRE. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m7L...
Clurking is really surging this quarter
May 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Clurking is really surging this quarter
Just tried @Reddit Answers for the first time. This is why users need to be given control, or at least visibility into, the system prompt.
This is some serious "many people are saying..." energy. YC's Peter Koomen recently wrote about this. Highly suggested reading: koomen.dev/essays/hors...
This is some serious "many people are saying..." energy. YC's Peter Koomen recently wrote about this. Highly suggested reading: koomen.dev/essays/hors...
May 25, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Just tried @Reddit Answers for the first time. This is why users need to be given control, or at least visibility into, the system prompt.
This is some serious "many people are saying..." energy. YC's Peter Koomen recently wrote about this. Highly suggested reading: koomen.dev/essays/hors...
This is some serious "many people are saying..." energy. YC's Peter Koomen recently wrote about this. Highly suggested reading: koomen.dev/essays/hors...