# Technical Chops

> Insightful analysis and in-depth, easily digestible understanding of the medium to long-term effects of emerging technologies.

Technical Chops is a publication by Simon Minton exploring the longer-term implications of emerging technologies. Each article combines 60% analysis, 20% opinion, and 20% informed speculation, aimed at helping leaders, builders, and innovators navigate the rapidly evolving tech landscape.

## Topics Covered

AI, Trust, Institutions, Expertise, Auto, Cars, EVs, China, Materials, Science, Manufacturing, Musings, LLMs, Technical, Mobile, Assistants, Agents, Long Term Effects, Apple, Crypto, News, Music, Media, 3D, Hardware, Aggregators, Advertising, Fun, Voice, Multi-Modal, Personalisation, Licensing, Marketing, Webinars

## Key Pages

- [Home](https://www.technicalchops.com/): Latest and recent articles
- [All Articles](https://www.technicalchops.com/articles/): Full article archive with topic filtering
- [About](https://www.technicalchops.com/about/): About the author and publication
- [RSS Feed](https://www.technicalchops.com/rss.xml): RSS feed for readers
- [Sitemap](https://www.technicalchops.com/sitemap-index.xml): XML sitemap

## Articles

- [Taking Their Word For It](https://www.technicalchops.com/articles/taking-their-word-for-it): AI, Covid, and what happens when we start checking the experts (2026-06-30)
- [Buying the Badge](https://www.technicalchops.com/articles/buying-the-badge): Ferrari's Luce, EVs and the one thing a Tesla can't sell (2026-05-29)
- [Transparent Aluminium](https://www.technicalchops.com/articles/transparent-aluminium): AI is mapping every material we could have. Making them is another matter. (2026-04-08)
- [26x](https://www.technicalchops.com/articles/26x): Mind. Blown. (2026-02-01)
- [The Models Don't Matter Anymore](https://www.technicalchops.com/articles/the-models-dont-matter-anymore): Frontier releases keep coming, but for businesses, focusing on flexible infrastructure pays bigger dividends than chasing the latest and greatest. (2025-02-24)
- [Chasing Cool: Jaguar’s Gamble](https://www.technicalchops.com/articles/chasing-cool-jaguars-gamble): Jaguar Redesign, EVs and China (2024-11-25)
- [Balancing Speed and Accuracy in LLMs](https://www.technicalchops.com/articles/balancing-speed-and-accuracy-in-llms): Speed, Accuracy, Considered Thought and Trust (2024-09-22)
- [The Future of Mobile: Contextual Computing, App Clips, and Apple’s Privacy Revolution](https://www.technicalchops.com/articles/the-future-of-mobile-contextual-computing): Contextual computing is reshaping how we interact with technology. (2024-09-17)
- [Consensus in the Machine: A New Method for Tackling LLM Hallucinations](https://www.technicalchops.com/articles/consensus-in-the-machine): Triple Modular Redundancy for LLMs (2024-09-05)
- [AI: The Ultimate Sherlocking?](https://www.technicalchops.com/articles/ai-the-ultimate-sherlocking): History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes (2024-07-26)
- [Wu-Tang Forever? The Bizarre Afterlife of a $4 Million Album](https://www.technicalchops.com/articles/wu-tang-forever): Once Upon a Time in DAOlin (2024-07-23)
- [AI Goes to Hollywood](https://www.technicalchops.com/articles/ai-goes-to-hollywood): What could the arrival of AI mean for Hollywood? (2024-06-28)
- [Apple Intelligence: Context Matters](https://www.technicalchops.com/articles/apple-intelligence-context-matters): Apple's Artificial Intelligence is finally here (2024-06-10)
- [AI Inputs and Outputs in the Real World](https://www.technicalchops.com/articles/ai-inputs-and-outputs-in-the-real-world): Creating objects in the real world with AI (2024-05-17)
- [Will AI kill sites like Booking.com? AI as a Personal Aggregator](https://www.technicalchops.com/articles/ai-as-a-personal-aggregator): What will the arrival of personal AIs actually result in? (2024-02-18)
- [Generative Video: Targeting You Soon](https://www.technicalchops.com/articles/generative-video-targeting-you-soon): A huge leap forward in generative video (2024-02-16)
- [Apple and AI](https://www.technicalchops.com/articles/apple-and-ai): Apple is further ahead with AI than most think (2024-02-01)
- [How hard is being an assistant anyway?](https://www.technicalchops.com/articles/how-hard-is-being-an-assistant-anyway): What it takes to be a good AI Assistant (2024-01-23)
- [Sebastifact: A fact machine for 7 year olds](https://www.technicalchops.com/articles/sebastifact-llm-facts-for-a-seven-year-old): Using GPT to create a fact machine (2023-11-18)
- [Ray-Ban Meta Glasses: Truly Wearable AI?](https://www.technicalchops.com/articles/ray-ban-meta-glasses): Giving AI Eyes and Ears (2023-10-18)
- [Short thoughts on chatting with an AI](https://www.technicalchops.com/articles/short-thoughts-on-chatting-with-ai): Multi-modal AI is here (2023-10-10)
- [OK Computer: 21st Century Sounds](https://www.technicalchops.com/articles/ok-computer-21st-century-sounds): Musical curation and creation, Spotify and AI (2023-09-15)
- [It’s about to get very noisy](https://www.technicalchops.com/articles/its-about-to-get-very-noisy): Large Language Models (LLMs), content creation and filtering signal from noise (2022-12-15)
- [Webinars and the Evolution of Playbox](https://www.technicalchops.com/articles/webinars-and-the-evolution-of-playbox): Playbox: My first foray into an AI product (2022-12-15)
- [Welcome to Technical Chops](https://www.technicalchops.com/articles/welcome-to-technical-chops): Writing on the internet (2022-12-08)

## Author

Simon Minton is a founder and technologist with 15+ years in and around digital technology. Technical Chops is his scratch pad for thinking out loud about where AI and emerging tech are heading. Based in London, England. More about his professional work at https://www.minton.co.

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