Most reports and surveys of generative AI adoption in business puts the marketing function either at, or very near, the top of the adoption curve. Since the LLMs deal with words and communication, same as marketing, this makes sense, especially when you look at the relentless demand for constant, current content across an insane number …
I thought it might be helpful to look at the main areas AI (especially the generative version) are getting involved in the workplace. The first area is general admin, there you're looking at them: Creating emails - especially ones that are fairly standard templated sorts of comms, remember to review the final copy and add …
Vibe coding is where you come up with apps, whether they're web, or mobile, just using normal English language commands. Frankly, I think it works best when you already have a coding background (turbo-charging your expertise), but if you need to brief something to a more tech-type person, vibe coding can get you to a …
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 …
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm hopeless at actually digging into new tools and things if I don't have a purpose for them. So, in the interests of sparking some ideas on what you could use these tools for, here's something I find the LLMs hugely helpful for: planning projects. My preferred tool …
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here, if you're reading this post more than a month after it was published, check the details, things could be out of date.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 