Christopher Mims 🤌 ✓

@mims · Baltimore, MD · joined 21 Mar 2007

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

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Christopher Mims 🤌 ✓@mims26 Jan

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 https://t.co/5AUKS1UZ3m 5.3K views · 23 likes · 5 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Christopher Mims 🤌 ✓@mims26 Jan

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 ..." 95.8K views · 147 likes · 5 reposts · 9 replies Open on X →

Christopher Mims 🤌 ✓@mims26 Jan

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. 216K views · 1.3K likes · 67 reposts · 93 replies Open on X →

Christopher Mims 🤌 ✓@mims25 Jan

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. 2.7M views · 5.8K likes · 438 reposts · 650 replies Open on X →

Christopher Mims 🤌 ✓@mims5 Dec 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. 1.8K views · 8 likes · 13 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Christopher Mims 🤌 ✓@mims5 Dec 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 5.2K views · 9 likes · 12 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Christopher Mims 🤌 ✓@mims4 Dec 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, https:

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Christopher Mims 🤌 ✓@mims16 Nov 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. https://t.co/0PsqSQPWLx

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