Articles for category: Delivery

4 months ago

Greg Thomas

Line by Line

As much as you try to avoid it. Sometimes you need to investigate a problem line by line. Similar to when you’re trying to find the connecting electrical wire, you need to investigate each one, line by line. There will always be a need to diligently, logically, and carefully identify and walk through a problem. Line by Line doesn’t go away, it just evolves into the next line by line search.

4 months ago

Greg Thomas

Reshaping your Work

AI is reshaping how we do our work. I was just at the age where I could apply the internet immediately to what I was doing when it took off.  I started coding HTML and learning how to make things work, and from there went into JavaScript and many other lovely languages 🙂 My work wasn’t reshaped at that point; it just took on this “thing” called the “Internet”. But now I’m embedded, now I’ve developed and grown with the Internet, and now AI is literally and figuratively reshaping everything I do. When you reshape, you twist and turn something

4 months ago

Greg Thomas

Genius at Work

I can’t remember when or where, but at some place I worked, someone put this sign up as they were doing stuff. The person, in general, was anything but a genius, and I think this made them feel good about doing “genius” style work. Truth of the matter, we don’t need more “genius, half-created, kind of works, skunkworks” work – we need good quality work, that makes sense, that has value, that builds confidence. That’s the Genius Work we need, not more sloppy stuff that no one will ever consume.

Legacy Work

No one likes to do legacy work, and I don’t know if AI ever will either. Because no one wants to do it. And one day, AI will opt out of the mundane tasks that we are giving to it. But it will always be there, and someday the work that AI does will become legacy as well. And we’ll have to find some older version of ChatGPT or Claude Opus to look into it through the frame of what built it. Legacy work never goes away.