I bounced into AI agent-land a little while ago with this image creator on Glif, but wanted to dig in a bit more and see how many ways I could pull together an automatic news update email. Preferably for free. News Agent 1 - ChatGPT (paid account $20 per month) So this is the most …
The company I work for closes down over Christmas/New Year and since I'm not going anywhere this year, I decided an at-home writing retreat might be fun You can find residential writing retreats in all sorts of amazing places, at any time of the year, covering time as short as a weekend, up to a …
There are a lot of people getting a little antsy about other people (usually 'kids these days') using LLM and related tools to help them stop thinking. Frankly that doesn't sound like a great idea, and I don't think the issue is confined to 'the kids'. It's funny, since one of my favourite uses for …
The Stanford d-School is generally credited (along with IDEO) for creating Design Thinking as a discipline. This is where you think user-first, come up with ideas, try stuff, get feedback, learn as you go and iterate your way to a new solution. This is one of the best diagrams to illustrate design thinking, and is …
Taking a slight detour this week to dive into the recent MIT article with the very catchy name Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task. Given this is a 200+ page academic article, I've enlisted some AI help, to find some quicker ways to absorb …
Quick caveat before diving in. This area of tech is moving insanely fast and while I'm aiming to stick to the foundations here, if you're reading this post more than a month after it was published, check the details, things could be out of date. So, first up. LLM stands for Large Language Model, and …
AI for Squishy Humans 