What Vicki Boykis thinks about discipline

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Machine learning engineer working on recommender systems, personalization and information retrieval; author of the 'What are embeddings?' text.

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1. 28 May 2026

   Our readingMoving from passively generating answers with an AI tool to using it deliberately takes real, concerted effort.

   Their wordsIt really does take extra concerted effort to move from just generating answers to using the tool deliberately.

   ↗We should be more tired than the modelvickiboykis.com 2nd of 2 in this piece