What Tiago Forte thinks about LLMs
Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.
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3 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Tiago Forte has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingHTML's built-in structure gives it advantages over markdown as a format for LLM interactions.
Their wordsHTML is the default format of the Internet, and for that reason comes with a number of built-in advantages that are also useful for LLMs
↗The AI Second Brain Is Back: What’s New for Cohort 2fortelabs.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThey've given us broad, passive exposure to the market average, but at the cost of suppressing upside
↗Finding Alpha: What’s Worth Consuming in the Age of AIfortelabs.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsBut for LLMs, it shows that they have no skin in the game and will never take a stand for what they believe in regardless of what it costs. They are perspective generators, not perspective holders.
↗Finding Alpha: What’s Worth Consuming in the Age of AIfortelabs.com 3rd of 3 in this piece