Amanda's AI Lab
Welcome to Amanda's AI Lab, where she dives into all the new AI models and tests them out to see which features are really useful, and which are just slop.
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By Amanda Caswell Published
Claude Fable 5.1 is here with stronger reasoning and agentic capabilities — here’s what’s new and why Anthropic’s latest AI model matters.

By Amanda Caswell Published
I asked Claude to build, debug, redesign and optimize the same app as four senior developers. Here’s what each role fixed — and missed.

By Amanda Caswell Published
Ask Proxy helps people over 65 use AI through simple text messages, with no app to download or complicated prompts to learn.

By Amanda Caswell Published
I’m a former personal trainer and used the Ray AI fitness app for a month. Here’s how its voice coaching, adaptive workouts and rep counting performed.

By Amanda Caswell Published
ChatGPT's memory can be incredibly useful — but only if you know how to use it. These five changes transformed it from a chatbot into an assistant that actually remembers what matters.

By Amanda Caswell Published
There are more AI-authored books on the market than you'd expect

By Amanda Caswell Published
I tested the Flowtica Scribe AI pen to see if it can accurately record, transcribe and summarize meetings, interviews and handwritten notes.

By Amanda Caswell Published
For thousands of years, conversation meant another human was listening. AI changed that — and we're still figuring out what it means.
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