Ian Tan

Ian Tan

Claude, MCP and Qwen

The LLM Claude cannot generate images by itself, but it can tap on external tools to do so. Today, I tried out the Qwen and Krea image engines to make some fun images that included both English and Chinese text.…

Newsletter 38 – The filters of our reality

In this week’s newsletter, I write about how our reality has become filtered by other people. And apart from sharing my recent posts, I am also sharing a few unlocked NYT articles for your reading pleasure. Just about everything we…

Newsletter 37 – You can’t automate interest

In this week’s newsletter, I discuss the problem of fully-automated content, and I share the many posts I have written since the last newsletter a month ago. I recently watched a talk where almost all the speaker’s content was obviously…

Google Gemini – Text to Cloned Voice

I created a new app with Google Gemini called the “Monk’s Insight Generator” – it takes a news story (or any piece of content) and turns it into a two-liner by a witty monk. After that, the app turns the…

AI literacy – July 2025 definition

I’m speaking to corporate leaders later this week about strategic approaches to AI in business. This is one of my slides where I’ve further refined my definition of AI literacy based on my Gen AI coaching experiences since 2023. On…

GO-FAR 2025 kickoff

Yesterday, we kicked off GO-FAR 2025 (Going Overseas For Advanced Reporting), the annual highlight of our journalism training at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University Singapore. An annual tradition since 2005, GO-FAR brings our…

Newsletter 36 – Remember Rule No. 6

In this week’s newsletter, I talk about why we need to stop taking ourselves so seriously, and recap my posts on “The Agency of You” workshop, data storytelling, and some lifehacks with ChatGPT and Canva. I also hope you like…