The Tech Desk
Artificial intelligence,
plainly explained.
Mid-Atlantic ingenuity, the tools already changing ordinary work, and the technology shaping what comes next. No jargon, no hype, no science fiction.
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AI 101
Following Orders
We spent seventy years teaching ourselves to fear the machine. HAL was never the problem. Mark Sanders takes apart what artificial intelligence actually is, then hands you a six prompt playbook that settles the group trip your friends have been failing to plan since March.
By Mark Sanders · Founder, FirmSideAI
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Practical AI
The tools you can use this afternoon, with the exact words to type into them, tested before they reach the page.
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The Boring Revolution
Flood warnings, earlier cancer detection, folded proteins. The applications nobody makes a movie about.
03
Local Innovation
Founders and firms building from Wilmington to the Brandywine Valley, including the University of Delaware's incubators.
04
Administrative Friction
How small businesses hand off the data entry, the scheduling, and the paperwork of simply wanting something.
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The Honest Caveat
Where these systems fail, invent facts, or answer with total confidence and no basis whatsoever.
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What Comes Next
The technology arriving in the corridor between city and coast, reported before the marketing catches up.
The technology editor
Mark Sanders
Technology Editor · Founder, FirmSideAI
Mark Sanders runs FirmSideAI from the FinTech Building at the University of Delaware, where the company is part of the GrowthStage Incubator. He spent thirteen years building a retail brand before turning to the technology he had followed since the nineties. His brief for City to Coast is simple: the practical tools first, the science fiction last.