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Hello word wranglers of the freelance world, Here’s something AI still gets embarrassingly wrong: counting. Just this week, one of our AI Mastery for Translators... And Beyond students ran into a frustrating glitch. She was [...]

Welcome back, translator in the trenches, Last Thursday, during my live webclass, someone asked a series of sharp questions that cut right to the heart of what it means to be a translator in 2025. [...]

Dear translator juggling clients, style guides, and AI that forgets stuff, There’s a common mistake many translators make once they’ve got their hands on good AI tools. They try to do too much with a [...]

This is a public service announcement. A schism has opened. A rebellion. An act of heresy. Yes, Dave — that Dave — has posted an article in AI4LanguageProfessionals suggesting a “better” way to execute the GAIT workflow [...]

Hey translators, This one’s been coming up a lot lately, so let’s clear it up once and for all. Do you need a CAT tool to use CotranslatorAI? Nope. CotranslatorAI isn’t a CAT tool. You [...]

Hello again, fellow translator, If you’ve felt discouraged by the quality of projects landing in your inbox lately, you’re not imagining it. More and more translators are getting stuck with MTPE jobs... lower rates, higher [...]

Hello to the translators who want to keep winning in a market that’s changing faster than they’d like to admit. This week I exchanged emails with a medical translator in Greece. Eighteen years in the [...]

Hello, translators who like to stay two steps ahead! OpenAI has just dropped GPT-5. If you’ve been curious how it handles real translation work, you can spin it up in CotranslatorAI pretty quickly. Here’s the [...]

Hi Steven, GPT-5 has arrived. And the reaction? Let’s just say… it’s more of a polite golf clap than a standing ovation. Sure, the AI world lit up with the usual launch buzz. But in [...]

Until now, CotranslatorAI only let you manually add one custom model at a time. That’s changed. You can now add and manage as many OpenAI models as you want — so you can work with the exact models you [...]

Have you ever found yourself spending extra time fixing straight quotes in your translations, just to get them looking right in Word or your CAT tool? If so, you’re definitely not alone. Recently, a [...]

Yesterday I received a message from a registrant to my webclass. Her comments echo what some in our profession are thinking right now: “Steven, I have to tell you that your optimism is fundamentally [...]

It's no shock that the Big LSPs, MT providers, and CAT tool makers are pushing for automation in translation. AI has given them the tools to do this, and they're finding ways to minimize [...]

A few years ago, while translating my PhD dissertation, I discovered a method that completely changed how I use AI in my translation work. It’s called anchor prompting, and it’s the foundation for getting [...]

Let's consider the biblical parable of new wine and old wineskins in the context of translation today. Generative AI provides us with new wine (an entirely new paradigm). Yet the industry mainstream is trying [...]

Lately, I’ve been reflecting on the evolving dynamics between translators and LSPs, especially in the face of advancing AI technologies. The big players might be banking on automation. But there's a different, higher path [...]

When we started developing CotranslatorAI just over a couple years ago, OpenAI was already on GPT 3.0. Within a short time, they raced ahead to 3.5 and then 4.0. But now, after a few [...]

There’s a lot of talk these days about how small LSPs are “doomed” in a world being reshaped by AI—usually from the so-called Localization Illuminati, the biggest industry players. Maybe you’ve heard this: big [...]

As a translator, advancements like GPT-4.1 are intriguing, especially with the promise of a massive context window. But does this mean we can simply input entire books or thousands of translation memory segments and [...]

Are we rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic? I still remember sitting at the 2006 ATA conference in New Orleans, hearing about new MT development and giving myself five more years in the field…. [...]

This really stopped me in my tracks: OpenAI announced today that they are retiring their GPT-4.5 model, rolling users back to 4.1. They say the new 4.1 is faster, cheaper, and better than 4.5…. [...]

Someone asked me recently how AI is going to impact the future of translation. That got me thinking about something that’s been bothering me for a while now. Have you noticed who headlines too [...]

My conversation with an LSP client last week brought some crucial insights to light about maintaining translation quality in the AI age. As AI becomes more integral to our workflow, determining true quality can [...]

Yesterday, I had a stimulating conversation with one of my small-LSP clients. After receiving some great feedback from him on a recent project, I decided to share a bit about my GAIT workflow. This [...]

What do you think about translation job specifications that read like a novel? They're exhausting to read. They're also ineffective. Half the time we don't read them carefully anyway, do we? Generative AI is [...]