Christopher Mims 🤌

@mims

WSJ tech columnist and author of How to AI, the no-nonsense guide to what AI actually is and how to actually use it, for the rest of us

Baltimore, MD

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Christopher Mims 🤌
@mims
Nov 16, 2025
I wrote a book about how to actually get real value out of AI. It's for CEOs and solopreneurs and skeptics and enthusiasts alike. It's the no-nonsense, bullshit-free guide that a lot of people need, but were afraid to ask for. You can pre-order it now.
Christopher Mims 🤌
@mims
Jan 26
1000% this It's the primary reason I wrote How to AI, the slim, accessible volume that has the potential to onboard the next million (ten million?) people who could meaningfully change their lives with just a little bit of AI. Comes out TOMORROW sites.prh.com/how-to-ai
Kevin Roose
@kevinroose
Jan 25
i follow AI adoption pretty closely, and i have never seen such a yawning inside/outside gap. people in SF are putting multi-agent claudeswarms in charge of their lives, consulting chatbots before every decision, wireheading to a degree only sci-fi writers dared to imagine.
Christopher Mims 🤌
@mims
Jan 26
When I give talks for my forthcoming book I always say "these are the industries that will be disrupted by AI, and in this order: 1. coding 2. law ..."
Katie Biber
@katiebiber
Jan 26
90% of lawyering is: (a) pattern recognition (calling it experience or intuition is cope) (b) choosing the right template & filling it out (c) reading & translating jargon (d) writing Guys - we are first up, and unlike the devs, most have no idea what's coming.
Christopher Mims 🤌
@mims
Dec 5, 2025
AI demos are wild. You never know if what you're seeing is the best case scenario out of a hundred attempts, or what a system is capable of robustly doing again and again. Even then, you have no idea how it will break in the critical minority of cases in which it does.
Christopher Mims 🤌
@mims
Dec 5, 2025
I know this is a demo but I do wonder if Google is going to get around to leapfrogging Apple / Apple AI with this sort of thing in the not too distant future
Taylor Ogan
@TaylorOgan
Dec 4, 2025
Another DeepSeek moment. This is the world’s first actual smart phone. It’s an engineering prototype of ZTE’s Nubia M153 running ByteDance’s Doubao AI agent fused into Android at the OS level. It has complete control over the phone. It can see the UI, choose/download apps,
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