Articles for category: Delivery

6 months ago

Greg Thomas

Where we Need to Be

I read two types of articles these days; We completed our work within 4 hours and have a new product. I was hired to come in and fix a company’s product and have spent the last 2 weeks making it scale. The answer is in the middle: find the right people who use the right tools, to deliver the right thing somewhere in the middle. The middle is where we all want to be, but it’s not Instagram-worthy enough to get there, so we go with Option 1, but then when 1 breaks, we are forced into 2. Somewhere in

6 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Coding Conundrum

There are ways to fix your problems. I can do it fast by getting vibe coding it- and it will look nice, but may not scale. I can do it with no code, but I might be limited by how far I can take it with the features made available to me; it probably won’t look as nice as if I’d Vibe Coded, as it will be following a structured template. I can code it myself; this might take longer and scale, and I will still need to build a UX on top of it. This is where code is

7 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Worth of Your Work

Only a few people know the value of your work, the expert being you. Whether you’re salaried, part-time, or contract – your worth, what you deliver, what your work says about you never changes. You can turn in the same slop that AI can produce, quickly, without review, based on your first prompt. Or you can sit there, refine it, tweak it, validate answers, and demonstrate the value that you deliver that goes beyond quick and easy. The game hasn’t changed, who you are competing with, and the hype and media they have behind them has.

7 months ago

Greg Thomas

To the point

At its onset, the Internet brought more information to everyone. But you had to look, you had to dig, you had to marry information together. With AI, anyone can get anything at any time, and if they don’t understand, they can keep having it broken down to the point that they do understand it, with little to no emotion brought into it. Going on and on and explaining things won’t cut it anymore – everyone can learn the history, but breaking ideas and components down to their simplest, most effective talking point. AI will enable you to turn faster, only