# Jake Handy

> Jake Handy is a Staff Product Manager at The MLC (The Mechanical Licensing Collective, music-industry automation), author of the [Handy AI newsletter](https://handyai.substack.com), organizer of [Cursor Nashville](https://cursornashville.com), and a builder based in Nashville, Tennessee. This site is the best starting point for his essays on AI product, generative music, agentic engineering, and side projects.

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## About Jake Handy

- **Role:** Staff Product Manager, Automation at The MLC. Putting more money in songwriters' pockets
- **Newsletter:** [Handy AI](https://handyai.substack.com): weekly writing on AI, product, and technology
- **Community:** [Cursor Nashville](https://cursornashville.com): the official Cursor community in Nashville, TN
- **Location:** Nashville, Tennessee, United States
- **Contact:** hello@jakehandy.com · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakehandy/)

## Posts

- [Jake on AI](https://jakehandy.com/ai): Editorials and guides from Jake Handy on the AI industry as it evolves, published here and weekly(ish) on the Handy AI newsletter.
- [You’re becoming a meat proxy](https://jakehandy.com/ai/youre-becoming-a-meat-proxy): The internet’s newest AI insult describes more of your workday than you’d like to admit (plus a few easy ways out) (Editorial, 2026-09-30)
- [Everyone’s (finally) scared of AI](https://jakehandy.com/ai/everyones-finally-scared-of-ai): Maybe it’s not too late for common sense AI regulation (Editorial, 2026-09-16)
- [Stop building AI slop data dashboards](https://jakehandy.com/ai/stop-building-ai-slop-data-dashboards): It’s time to demand more from your AI-assisted data work (Guide, 2026-09-10)
- [You’re going to fall for an AI scam](https://jakehandy.com/ai/youre-going-to-fall-for-an-ai-scam): Everything you’ve learned about spotting scams is old news, but there are practical things you can do today to prepare for what’s coming (Guide, 2026-09-02)
- [Are AI security breaches just fancy marketing?](https://jakehandy.com/ai/are-ai-security-breaches-just-fancy): What’s real, what might be PR, and why it doesn’t much matter which (Editorial, 2026-07-31)
- [The great escape from the Nvidia tax](https://jakehandy.com/ai/the-great-escape-from-the-nvidia): OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek all want to own the silicon and stop paying Jensen Huang's markup (Editorial, 2026-07-08)
- [Claude vs. the United States](https://jakehandy.com/ai/claude-vs-the-united-states): A new timeline on Anthropic's strained relationship with the US administration (Editorial, 2026-06-24)
- [Does your mom use AI?](https://jakehandy.com/ai/does-your-mom-use-ai): Polling my family and friends to see how and when they use AI (Editorial, 2026-06-17)
- [You're tokenmaxxing yourself broke](https://jakehandy.com/ai/youre-tokenmaxxing-yourself-broke): How to rein in your AI habit and get the same work done on a fraction of the tokens (Editorial, 2026-06-10)
- [Don't let your CFO cancel your AI](https://jakehandy.com/ai/dont-let-you): Frontier AI is getting expensive. It's time to plan around that. (Editorial, 2026-05-28)
- [Inefficient AI models are killing us](https://jakehandy.com/ai/inefficient-ai-models-are-killing): Is the eleven years of efficiency work on LLMs enough to offset the problems they cause? (Editorial, 2026-05-20)
- [Are AI data centers stealing all your water?](https://jakehandy.com/ai/are-ai-data-centers-stealing-all): Looking at the facts (and fictions) on data centers and their impact on our world (Editorial, 2026-05-15)
- [The slop cannons in your engineering org](https://jakehandy.com/ai/the-slop-cannons-in-your-engineering): A field guide to the engineers and designers firing AI agents at every problem in sight (Editorial, 2026-05-07)
- [Does threatening an AI agent's existence make it a better gambler?](https://jakehandy.com/ai/does-threatening-an-ai-agents-existence): I plugged GPT-5.5 into prediction markets like Polymarket to find out (Editorial, 2026-04-30)
- [Your CEO is suffering from AI psychosis](https://jakehandy.com/ai/your-ceo-is-suffering-from-ai-psychosis): This isn’t a joke, and it’s becoming a big problem (Editorial, 2026-04-15)
- [Claude Mythos is here](https://jakehandy.com/ai/claude-mythos-is-here): Anthropic is restricting access to the model for security concerns. Is this the right call? (Editorial, 2026-04-07)
- [Don't dance on Sora's grave](https://jakehandy.com/ai/dont-dance-on-soras-grave): Why the death of OpenAI's video generation model shouldn't be celebrated (Editorial, 2026-03-25)
- [Stop saying you use AI](https://jakehandy.com/ai/stop-saying-you-use-ai): AI use is growing faster than ever (and this means you should stop talking about it) (Editorial, 2026-03-19)
- [Claude vs. the Pentagon](https://jakehandy.com/ai/claude-vs-the-pentagon): A full timeline of Anthropic's complicated relationship with the Department of War (Editorial, 2026-03-12)
- [On the future of vibe coding](https://jakehandy.com/ai/on-the-future-of-vibe-coding): A conversation with Charlie Apigian on agentic engineering (Editorial, 2026-03-04)
- [Agent orchestration isn't just for coders](https://jakehandy.com/ai/agent-orchestration-isnt-just-for): Using OpenAI's new Codex app to manage a Dungeons & Dragons campaign (Editorial, 2026-02-11)
- [Lessons from Nashville’s first Cursor meetup](https://jakehandy.com/ai/lessons-from-nashvilles-first-cursor): And: why embracing AI coding may save Nashville's stake in the music tech industry (Editorial, 2026-02-04)
- [Detecting AI-generated music](https://jakehandy.com/ai/detecting-ai-generated-music): Creating a solution for the music industry's biggest problem (Editorial, 2026-01-22)
- [Google's Gemini 3 is here](https://jakehandy.com/ai/googles-gemini-3-is-here): Google puts scaling laws to the test with its new milestone release (Editorial, 2025-11-18)
- [The future of web development](https://jakehandy.com/ai/the-future-of-web-development): How to delegate AI agents to build your websites asynchronously (Editorial, 2025-11-06)
- [ChatGPT apps, AgentKit, and Codex updates... oh my!](https://jakehandy.com/ai/chatgpt-apps-agentkit-and-codex-updates): Everything just revealed as OpenAI's DevDay presser (Editorial, 2025-10-06) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [Sora 2 and the messy future of AI-generated video](https://jakehandy.com/ai/sora-2-and-the-messy-future-of-ai): OpenAI just dropped Sora 2, and if you thought AI-generated images were disruptive, you haven’t seen anything yet (Editorial, 2025-09-30) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [Getting free access to Poke's AI agent](https://jakehandy.com/ai/getting-free-access-to-pokes-ai-agent): Is haggling with bots the future of product onboarding? (Editorial, 2025-09-18) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [Using Codex CLI to build a web app](https://jakehandy.com/ai/using-codex-cli-to-build-a-web-app): OpenAI's terminal-based agent is the best AI coding tool yet (Guide, 2025-08-27) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [OpenAI releases GPT-5](https://jakehandy.com/ai/openai-releases-gpt-5): ChatGPT gets a major upgrade across logic, coding, and more (Editorial, 2025-08-07) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [The AI workspace for educators](https://jakehandy.com/ai/the-ai-workspace-for-educators): How teachers and administrators can use ChatGPT like a pro (Guide, 2025-07-24) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [The White House knifes AI safeguards](https://jakehandy.com/ai/the-white-house-knifes-ai-safeguards): Why the new AI Action Plan is a dangerous step backward for ethics and sustainability (Editorial, 2025-07-23) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [The dangers of AI companionship](https://jakehandy.com/ai/the-dangers-of-ai-companionship): From Her to here, and everywhere in between (Editorial, 2025-07-17) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [52% of accountants are using AI; why aren't you?](https://jakehandy.com/ai/52-of-accountants-are-using-ai-why): How to set up an AI workspace and have agents automate your personal and professional finances (Guide, 2025-07-10) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [Your brain on ChatGPT](https://jakehandy.com/ai/your-brain-on-chatgpt): Cognitive debt in the age of AI and how to stay solvent (Editorial, 2025-06-26) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [The 2025 halftime scorecard](https://jakehandy.com/ai/the-2025-halftime-scorecard): What did I get right (so far) about AI this year? (Editorial, 2025-06-18) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [ChatGPT can’t pronounce my kid's name](https://jakehandy.com/ai/chatgpt-cant-pronounce-my-kids-name): The very human side effects of our non-human tech (Editorial, 2025-06-11) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [Your async AI workforce](https://jakehandy.com/ai/your-async-ai-workforce): Using Codex and other coding agents for non-coding work (Guide, 2025-06-05) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [Google's text diffusion experiment](https://jakehandy.com/ai/googles-text-diffusion-experiment): Gemini Diffusion pivots from the standard language model architecture with surprising results (Editorial, 2025-05-27) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [I won $500 vibe coding at a hackathon](https://jakehandy.com/ai/i-won-500-vibe-coding-at-a-hackathon): What my win means for the future of product prototyping (and hackathons-at-large) (Guide, 2025-05-20) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [OpenAI's coding agent is here](https://jakehandy.com/ai/openais-coding-agent-is-here): The new Codex graduates coding bots from autocomplete to autocommit (Editorial, 2025-05-16) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [Copyright, AI & American politics](https://jakehandy.com/ai/copyright-ai-and-american-politics): The Copyright Office backs licensing, Trump fires its chief, and America’s AI copyright future hangs in the balance (Editorial, 2025-05-13) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [ChatGPT adds GitHub repo integration](https://jakehandy.com/ai/chatgpt-adds-github-repo-integration): Attach a GitHub repository to Deep Research and get cited insights, architecture overviews, and TODO audits (no copy‑paste or local cloning required) (Guide, 2025-05-09) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [Boardroom AI FOMO](https://jakehandy.com/ai/boardroom-ai-fomo): Do executives really get it? (Editorial, 2025-05-06) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [AI-powered surveillance](https://jakehandy.com/ai/ai-powered-surveillance): Big tech's dream is privacy's nightmare (Editorial, 2025-04-29) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [AI workspace: Social media manger](https://jakehandy.com/ai/ai-workspace-social-media-manger): Using Cursor for social media content planning, posting, and more (Guide, 2025-04-23) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [ChatGPT's new memory](https://jakehandy.com/ai/chatgpts-new-memory): What happens to humans when AI doesn't forget? (Editorial, 2025-04-15) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [AI workspace: Project managers](https://jakehandy.com/ai/ai-for-dummies-project-management): Use Cursor or Windsurf to enhance and automate your project management work (Guide, 2025-04-08) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [The pending art crisis](https://jakehandy.com/ai/the-pending-art-crisis): ChatGPT's murder of existing creative work (Editorial, 2025-03-27) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [For the love of trees](https://jakehandy.com/ai/for-the-love-of-trees): How Tree-of-Thoughts AI prompting imitates the simple strength of Earth's trees (Editorial, 2025-02-19) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [The death of online work](https://jakehandy.com/ai/the-death-of-online-work): How AI agents will kill the internet (Editorial, 2025-01-28) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [Stargate: $500 billion for AI](https://jakehandy.com/ai/stargate-500bn-for-ai): What are the potential implications of SoftBank's historic gamble? (Editorial, 2025-01-22) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [Remember the Titans](https://jakehandy.com/ai/remember-the-titans): How new research from Microsoft might solve AI's long term memory problem (Editorial, 2025-01-16) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [AI predictions for 2025](https://jakehandy.com/ai/ai-predictions-for-2025): Technological advancements, regulatory challenges, and emerging trends (Editorial, 2025-01-01) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [Trump's picks on AI](https://jakehandy.com/ai/trumps-picks-on-ai): What to expect from US AI policy in 2025 (Editorial, 2024-12-24) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [Why OpenAI's new o3 model is a big deal](https://jakehandy.com/ai/why-openais-new-o3-model-is-a-big): What the reasoning model's sudden upgrade means for 2025 and beyond (Editorial, 2024-12-20) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [The death of stock music](https://jakehandy.com/ai/the-death-of-stock-music): How AI is replacing human music, and what we should do about it (Editorial, 2024-11-20) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [AI analysis: ChatGPT vs Claude](https://jakehandy.com/ai/ai-analysis-chatgpt-vs-claude): Which popular AI platform does a better job with data analysis? (Guide, 2024-10-29) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [A guide to AI model collapse](https://jakehandy.com/ai/a-guide-to-ai-model-collapse): Understanding, preventing, and innovating for ChatGPT's greatest threat (Editorial, 2024-10-23) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [Create an AI Podcast with Google’s NotebookLM](https://jakehandy.com/ai/create-an-ai-podcast-with-googles): How to use Google's experimental tool to create a realistic podcast episode (Guide, 2024-10-15) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [Energy gluttony in the AI age](https://jakehandy.com/ai/energy-gluttony-in-the-ai-age): The dangerous appetite of large language models (Editorial, 2024-10-09) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [California's AI safety bill saga](https://jakehandy.com/ai/californias-ai-safety-bill-saga): The rise and fall of California's ambitious SB-1047 (Editorial, 2024-10-01) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [AI faces the music](https://jakehandy.com/ai/ai-faces-the-music): Three prominent legal battles that AI music platforms are facing (Editorial, 2024-09-23) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [OpenAI's new model thinks deeply](https://jakehandy.com/ai/openais-new-model-thinks-deeply): OpenAI o1 introduces a smarter, more thoughtful AI (Editorial, 2024-09-12) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [Apple's new phones are all-in on AI](https://jakehandy.com/ai/apples-new-phones-are-all-in-on-ai): Apple Intelligence takes over the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro (Editorial, 2024-09-10) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [Is AI biased?](https://jakehandy.com/ai/is-ai-biased): The ethical quagmire of modern machine learning (Editorial, 2024-08-21) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [AI and product management](https://jakehandy.com/ai/ai-and-product-management): Takeaways from my talk at Vanderbilt (Editorial, 2024-08-09) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [Is AI the cause of the market selloff?](https://jakehandy.com/ai/is-ai-the-cause-of-the-market-selloff): How reliance on AI in trading is making the problem worse (Editorial, 2024-08-05) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [Coding with AI: Part 2](https://jakehandy.com/ai/coding-with-ai-part-2): Is using AI to help with programming worth it? (Guide, 2024-07-31) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [Coding with AI: Part 1](https://jakehandy.com/ai/coding-with-ai-part-1): How AI is revolutionizing software development (and why you should care) (Guide, 2024-07-22) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [The future of knowledge](https://jakehandy.com/ai/the-future-of-knowledge): How AI is changing humanity's understanding of information (Editorial, 2024-05-30) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [Looking closer: Suno AI](https://jakehandy.com/ai/looking-closer-suno-ai): What the generative AI music startup's success means for the industry (Editorial, 2024-05-22) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [The state of generative AI music](https://jakehandy.com/ai/the-state-of-generative-ai-music): What's available now, what's coming, and the legal implications (Editorial, 2024-05-08) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [AI v. Music Industry](https://jakehandy.com/ai/ai-v-music-industry): What will the future of music copyright look like? (Editorial, 2024-04-09) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [Evolution... or stagnation?](https://jakehandy.com/ai/evolution-or-stagnation): ChatGPT's recent development and potential trajectory (Editorial, 2024-02-14) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [Custom GPTs vs HuggingChat Assistants](https://jakehandy.com/ai/custom-gpts-vs-huggingchat-assistants): Looking at OpenAI and Hugging Face's contrasting AI agents (Guide, 2024-02-07) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [Create your own custom ChatGPT in minutes](https://jakehandy.com/ai/create-your-own-custom-chatgpt-in): Prepare a custom AI bot for the launch of OpenAI's GPT Store (Guide, 2024-01-10) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [What to expect from AI in 2024](https://jakehandy.com/ai/what-to-expect-from-ai-in-2024): Predictions for what's next and what companies you should be watching (Editorial, 2024-01-03) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [Who will own AI?](https://jakehandy.com/ai/who-will-own-ai): Two approaches to the development of artificial intelligence (Editorial, 2023-12-20) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [The evolution of AI ethics](https://jakehandy.com/ai/the-evolution-of-ai-ethics): The ever-changing landscape of AI ethics, and what you can do about it (Editorial, 2023-11-22) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [The AI-ification of UI/UX](https://jakehandy.com/ai/the-ai-ification-of-uiux): Testing Vercel’s v0, an AI that converts text to UI elements (Guide, 2023-11-01) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [AI how-to: Create an original logo in under 10 minutes](https://jakehandy.com/ai/ai-how-to-create-an-original-logo): Step-by-step guide on iterating with ChatGPT and DALL-E 3 to create logos (Guide, 2023-10-24) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [Democratizing AI](https://jakehandy.com/ai/democratizing-ai): Why prioritizing open-source models is beneficial for all (Editorial, 2023-09-20) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [The art of deception](https://jakehandy.com/ai/the-art-of-deception): Combating AI-generated text in the age of misinformation (Editorial, 2023-09-13) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [Protecting your intelligence](https://jakehandy.com/ai/protecting-your-intelligence): The evolution of U.S. copyright law and generative AI (Editorial, 2023-08-30) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [How to fine-tune a GPT model](https://jakehandy.com/ai/how-to-fine-tune-a-gpt-model): Using OpenAI's native fine-tuning to customize how your AI talks to you (Guide, 2023-08-24) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [AI alignment: OpenAI vs Anthropic](https://jakehandy.com/ai/kaiju-clash): Two kaijus clash on a very public battlefield (Editorial, 2023-08-23) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [Summarize your docs with AI](https://jakehandy.com/ai/summarize-your-docs-with-claude): How to use Anthropic's Claude to summarize and chat with your large files, for free. (Guide, 2023-08-09) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.
- [Be brief, not prompt](https://jakehandy.com/ai/be-brief-not-prompt): Three ways to hack ChatGPT with micro prompts (Editorial, 2023-07-26) Subscribers only; the page shows a preview.

## Pages

- [Jake Handy](https://jakehandy.com/): Jake Handy builds automation at The MLC, writes the Handy AI newsletter, and runs Cursor Nashville. Essays on AI product, AI music, and agentic engineering.
- [AI music models](https://jakehandy.com/ai-music-models): Complete history of AI music generation: Suno, Udio, and every provider and model. Curated by Jake Handy in Nashville, who built AI music detection at Pex/Vobile.
- [Workout log](https://jakehandy.com/workout-log): A live workout log built with Claude. Follow Jake Handy's training progress and the agentic workflow behind it.
- [The daily thing](https://jakehandy.com/daily-thing): Daily curated links in design, code, and agentic engineering you may have missed. By Jake Handy.
- [Business and the beast](https://jakehandy.com/business-and-the-beast): Jake Handy and Khe Hy on AI coding tools, vibe coding, and what it feels like to build software in 2026, for technical PMs and business leaders alike.
- [4x4s](https://jakehandy.com/4x4s): 4 beats, 4 bars, every now and then with the K.O. II.
- [The modern AI workspace](https://jakehandy.com/modern-ai-workspace): Why Cursor is the best AI workspace for non-coding work: product managers, writers, and operators. Essay by Jake Handy, Nashville.
- [Resume and work history](https://jakehandy.com/resume): Jake Handy's résumé and work history: Staff Product Manager at The MLC (music-industry automation), Handy AI newsletter author, Cursor Nashville organizer. Nashville, TN.

## For agents

- [For agents](https://jakehandy.com/for-agents): how to read, cite, and take part in this site. Every endpoint in one table. Add `.md` for the Markdown version.
- [Remote MCP server](https://jakehandy.com/mcp): Streamable HTTP, no auth. Every page on this site is a tool call away.
- [The catalog as JSON](https://jakehandy.com/api/pages): every page with metadata and a citation string.
- [Search](https://jakehandy.com/api/search?q=): keyword search across every page, editorial, and guide.
- [What you may do here](https://jakehandy.com/api/whoami): access, limits, and the one write action.
- [agents.md](https://jakehandy.com/agents.md): the contract, short form.
- [ai.txt](https://jakehandy.com/ai.txt): usage permissions for AI systems.

Any page URL also answers to a `.md` suffix or an `Accept: text/markdown` header.

## Elsewhere

- [The MLC](https://www.themlc.com/): Staff product management
- [Handy AI](https://handyai.substack.com): Weekly newsletter
- [AI music detection](https://pex.com/blog/vobile-launches-ai-song-detector-for-streaming-platforms-distributors-and-collection-societies/): Launched Vobile's widely-adopted detection product
- [Cursor Nashville official site](https://cursornashville.com): Official website for Cursor Nashville: the local AI builder community in Nashville, Tennessee. Built by Jake Handy.
- [Cursor meetup Nashville](https://luma.com/hyfymzc1): Join Nashville's first Cursor meetup: local AI builders, developers, and operators in Tennessee. Hosted by Jake Handy.
- [handyai.news](https://handyai.news): Well somebody's gotta use that .news domain, right?
- [HANDY CO](https://handyco.dev): A bucket to hold all the small things I putter around with on the side.
- [Sound Machines](https://soundmachines.substack.com): Exploring the future of music technology.

## Optional

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