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Podcast Episode: Prompting, AI, And Business Chaos
An experiment of an AI generated podcast from a series of previously published articles. You decide.
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Simulating Corporate Chaos: Your Own Truman Show
Setup your own Truman Show, with personality types, and then sit back and watch them interact in a virtual Slack channel. Each one is run by its own AI agent, learning and interacting.
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Behind the Prompt Curtain
Every AI prompt is a stateless HTTP request. No memory, no magic. Just a JSON array of messages you build and send yourself. Once you see what is actually going over the wire, adding AI to your product stops being intimidating. The technical barrier is gone. The only question left is whether you should.
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Failure is an Option
Trial and error is the only way we learn. Taking chances (not risks) is how we evolve our knowledge and the output to which we are relied upon.
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Technical Debt – A visual guide
Unpicking the mystery of what technical debt is and how it can be provide learning and inform the future.
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2022 in review
Now that we have started 2023, one can take a look at the year that was 2022. Personally it was a great year (no deaths/cancer in the family so that is new), with a number of stand out moments. The biggest one is that I married, Kelley, the lady of my dreams in the summer. We wedded in our own home, with the ceremony in the front, and the big…
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Compassionomics ~ book review
How a little compassion can transform a whole industry and lift the lives of millions in the process.
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People are leaking their RDS database backups
Researchers discovered incompetence when handling AWS RDS database backups, exposing them on the public network for anyone to take
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What makes a great product manager by James Hamilton
What makes a great product by AWS guru James Hamilton
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Adrift America in 100 Charts ~ book review
Prof G’s latest book details the state of the country through 100 charts, each one powerfully presented and creating a lot of stroky-chin moments.
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The touch of Music
Vinyl records are more than just scratchy reproductions of sounds
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The Cold Start Problem ~ book review
Andrew Chen charts the rise of the some of the larger Internet companies whose value only increases through an increased number of users – the network effect.
the legend that is, Alan Williamson
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