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title: Saturday AI Thoughts - David Boyle
source: https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/
published: 2026-09-19
summary: David Boyle's weekly email about language models and how they change knowledge work. Hub page with links to all content types.
---

# Saturday AI Thoughts

David Boyle's weekly email about language models and how they change knowledge work. Published every Saturday from david@steadman.ai. 975 subscribers.

## How old is AI?

The hub page carries a live timeline of the three generations of AI: how long ago each generation reached ordinary people (ChatGPT, 30th November 2022; Claude Code, 24th February 2025; Clawdbot, now OpenClaw, 25th November 2025), with a toggle to the enterprise-ready equivalents (ChatGPT Enterprise, 28th August 2023; Claude Code on Team and Enterprise, 20th August 2025; Claude Tag, 23rd June 2026). Enterprise trails the consumer launch by six to nine months, every generation. Each generation name links to [Three Generations of AI](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/three-generations.html).

## Content Types

* [Essays](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/essays.html) (31 essays): The weekly centrepiece. What happened, why it matters, and what it means
* [News Worth Knowing](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/news.html) (368 items): 93 Three Things items and 275 extras
* [Try This](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/try-this.html) (92 tips): Practical tips with copy-and-paste prompts
* [What Readers Said](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/readers.html) (53 sections): 29 letters and 24 community voice sections
* [Audio Edition](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/podcast.html) (31 episodes): Spoken-word version with AI voices
* [Edition Archive](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/archive.html): Full edition-by-edition view with deep links

## Tools, frameworks and guides

A route through them: choose the outcome (Value Map), find the gaps (Diagnostic), assign responsibility (Five Questions), plan the team (AI-Native Team). The full catalogue is at https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/artifacts.html

* [AI Value Map](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/ai-value-map.html): Where is AI value, across four kinds of AI work, and how much have you captured?
* [Organisational AI Diagnostic](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/ai-maturity-diagnostic.html): Twenty questions across five assessment areas; find the gaps that could prevent the business result you want
* [The Five Questions](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/five-questions.html): Five questions for turning AI capability into business results, and three owners
* [AI-Native Team Calculator](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/ai-native-team.html): Director, Builder, Auditor: one scenario for the roles-and-teams work
* [AI Usage Spectrum](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/ai-usage-spectrum.html): Chat, Agent, Employee; what good use looks like
* [Three Generations of AI](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/three-generations.html): Chat, Agent, Employee; what you're managing at each level
* [The CEO Gap](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/the-ceo-gap.html): Check, Edit, Own; how the checking changes
* [From What's True to What to Do](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/ai-from-whats-true-to-what-to-do.html): Choose the business outcome, then work backwards
* [Atoms of Enterprise AI Deployment](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/atoms.html): The dependencies between adoption and value capture
* [The Four Freedoms](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/four-freedoms.html): What any AI agent is actually free to do
* [Getting Executive Teams Hands-On with AI](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/executive-sessions.html): Planning a leadership session
* [The Environmental Cost of AI](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/ai-environmental-cost.html): What a prompt, a task and a day of AI cost
* [How the AI Story Was Told](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/how-the-ai-story-was-told.html): AI coverage across the press
* [Futures and Fears: The Full Record](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/futures-and-fears-full-record.html): What readers and a panel see coming
* [We've Had This Conversation Before](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/weve-had-this-conversation-before.html): The historical parallels
* [How This Email Gets Made](https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/how-its-made.html): Human-AI process

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